· Public charity
American Petroleum Institute
The mission of AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE (api) is to promote safety across the industry globally and to influence public policy in support of a strong, viable u.s.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $249,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $305,380 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,880 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $120,000 |
| THE THIRD WAY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINERS | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $15,000 |
| FORD'S THEATRE | $12,500 |
| WESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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
Grants abroad, by region — $56k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: INTERNATIONAL OIL SPILL CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: INTERNATIONAL OIL SPILL CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: INTERNATIONAL OIL SPILL CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: INTERNATIONAL OIL SPILL CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: INTERNATIONAL OIL SPILL CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: INTERNATIONAL OIL SPILL CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
Stated purpose: INTERNATIONAL OIL SPILL CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- ONONE NATION2× · 2018–2019 · $1.1M · revenue +117%
- GWGROUND WATER PROTECTION2× · 2017–2019 · $880k · revenue +5%
- SRSTATE REVIEW OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS ENVIRONMENTAL3× · 2017–2019 · $310k · revenue +9% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- PCPROTECTING COLORADOS ENVIRONMENT ECONOMY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCEone grant, 2018 · $3.7M · revenue -46%
- CHCLT HOST 2020 INCone grant, 2019 · $1.5M · revenue -100%
- AWAMERICAN WORKERS FOR PROGRESSone grant, 2019 · $1.3M
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 American Council for Capital Formation Center for Policy Research and the most unlike its peers is Friends of World Maritime University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
128 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 128 of the 167 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 PROTECTING COLORADOS ENVIRONMENT ECONOMY AND ENERGY INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds CLT HOST 2020 INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN WORKERS FOR PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds ONE NATION ↗
- Who funds GROUND WATER PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds TRADE WORKS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GROWTH AND PROGRESS FUND ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS TO PROTECT PENNSYLVANIA JOBS ↗
- Who funds OHIO GROWTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR CAPITAL FORMATION CENTER FOR POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO OIL & GAS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STATE REVIEW OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS ENVIRONMENTAL ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Americans for Tax Reform ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY WINS DC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACTION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL COALITION ON ADOPTION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS OIL & GAS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds National Newspaper Publishers Association Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ENERGY POLICY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGULATORY UTILITY COMMISSIONERS ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OCEAN POLICY COALITION ↗
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: Edison Electric Institute Inc · American Gas Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Ctia - the Wireless Association · AARP · The Business Roundtable Inc · Motion Picture Association Inc · Biotechnology Innovation Organization · American Property Casualty Insurance Association
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 Petroleum Institute 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.
- The Fire Protection Research Foundation — 50% of income from government
- Ground Water Protection — 34% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc — 3% 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.