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Exxonmobil Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+13 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KHAN ACADEMY INC | $6,846,730 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA CAF AMERICA | $3,688,864 |
| IWOKRAMA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR RAINFOREST CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT | $2,500,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $1,300,000 |
| THE EMC FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL MATCHING GIFT | $993,238 |
| CHERIE BLAIR FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN | $600,000 |
| COUNTERPART INTERNATIONAL INC | $500,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PANAFRICARE INC | $350,000 |
| CLARISSE MACHANGUANA FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| FUNDACAO MECANISMO DE APOIO A SOCIEDADE CIVIL MASC | $300,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS INC | $300,000 |
| UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER BAYTOWN AREA AND CHAMBERS COUNTY | $230,000 |
| SOLAR SISTER INC | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $369k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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
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 5% of Exxonmobil 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 39 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.3M 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
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $14M · revenue +20%
United Way of Greater Houston3× · 2022–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +24%- GSGRASSROOT SOCCER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +139%
Funded once
- VIVolunteer Involvement Programone grant, 2020 · $3.2M
- AAFRICAREone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue -69%
- JHJohn Hopkins Universityone grant, 2020 · $600k
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.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
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See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Solar Sister 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 175 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 KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOT SOCCER INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTERPART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICARE ↗
- Who funds KOPERNIK SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAR SISTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HUNTERDON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Houston · The Methodist Hospital · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc
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 Exxonmobil 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Hunterdon County — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- United Way of West Florida 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.
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