· Public charity
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation
The dissemination of scientific knowledge in the field of geology.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $1,118,337 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,858,269 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $739,932 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $591k
- $250k+1 grant · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS | $312,036 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS | $176,813 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS | $173,298 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS | $141,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON | $35,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DINOSAUR RIDGE | $30,190 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS | $30,000 |
| ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS | $20,000 |
| UINTAH BASIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +23%
- HUHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2022 · $326k · revenue +24%
- SFSEG FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +195% · 77% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated2× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +58%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA2× · 2017–2018 · $110k
- EAEnerGeo Allianceone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS ↗
- Who funds American Geosciences Institute ↗
- Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DINOSAUR RIDGE ↗
- Who funds EnerGeo Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS ↗
- Who funds UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds OFFSHORE RIG MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds MID-CONTINENT GEOLOGICAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.