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OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY INC

EIN 63-0366652 HUNTSVILLE, AL

Revenue 2023
$71,851,223
Expenses 2023
$75,491,477

Program services were 67.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
7000
Street
7000 ADVENTIST BLVD NW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST (EIN 52-0643036). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY, A HISTORICALLY BLACK SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING, PROVIDES QUALITY CHRISTIAN EDUCATION THAT EMPHASIZES ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE; PROMOTES HARMONIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT; AND PREPARES LEADERS IN SERVICE FOR GOD AND HUMANITY.

  • TO PROVIDE UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS IN VARIOUS DISCIPLINES INCLUDING ON CAMPUS TRAINING IN SELECTED FIELDS OF STUDY FOR APPROXIMATELY 1800 STUDENTS

    Expenses $50,913,205 · Grants $17,803,976 · Revenue $71,851,223

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • John Freedman

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jim Davidson

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gary Thurber

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Garth Gabriel

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ed Zinke

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eldeen King

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David R Williams

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Freedman

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kenneth Manders

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carmela Monk Crawford

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carlton Byrd

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carlos Craig

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Calvin Watkins

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Calvin Preston

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Calvin B Rock Emeritus

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dennis Plubell

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brad Newton

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Benson Prigg

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Trevor Kinlock

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Benjamin Jones

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Judy Glass

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kenneth Denslow

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laura Davis

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Zavon Kanion

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Witford Reid

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $71,851,223
    Expenses
    $75,491,477
    Contributions
    $24,920,988
    Grants paid
    $17,803,976
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $67,340,745
    Expenses
    $77,013,728
    Contributions
    $24,966,750
    Grants paid
    $20,122,860

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $68,745,212
    Expenses
    $72,386,999
    Assets (EOY)
    $120,064,681
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $64,178,393
    Expenses
    $61,467,355
    Assets (EOY)
    $115,223,075
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $65,439,596
    Expenses
    $64,752,168
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,408,271
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $63,581,649
    Expenses
    $62,216,416
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,474,881
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $62,425,532
    Expenses
    $60,681,506
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,736,770
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $60,605,674
    Expenses
    $57,971,822
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,726,924
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $60,732,332
    Expenses
    $58,396,037
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,924,759

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

  • GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

    501(C)(3) · RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES · MD

  • GENERAL CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

    501(C)(3) · RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES IN A FIDUCIARY CAPACITY · MD

  • OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY QALICB

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORTING ORGANIZTION OF OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY · AL

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2023 return

  • OAKWOOD ENTERPRISE - R1 LLC

    EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS · AL · income $324,721 · assets $362,722

  • OAKWOOD ENTERPRISE OPERATIONS LLC

    EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS · AL

  • OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY FARMS LLC

    FARM OPERATIONS · AL · income $977,237 · assets $3,445,489

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.