· Public charity
National Oilheat Research Alliance
Educate consumers about the benefits of oilheat, to perform research and development, encourage heating oil efficiency and upgrades, and to provide technical training to provide better customer service.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION | $488,586 |
| MASSACHUSETTS ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION | $431,762 |
| CONNECTICUT ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION | $423,048 |
| NEW YORK STATE ENERGY COALITION | $411,726 |
| EMPIRE STATE ENERGY ASSOCIATION | $330,715 |
| MAINE ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION | $252,557 |
| FUEL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY | $185,410 |
| NORTH CAROLINA PETROLEUM & CONVENIENCE MARKETERS ASSOCIATION | $144,902 |
| ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC | $130,213 |
| MID-ATLANTIC PETROLEUM DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION INC | $118,586 |
| ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION OF RHODE ISLAND | $114,923 |
| VIRGINIA PETROLEUM & CONVENIENCE MARKETERS ASSOCIATION | $113,926 |
| OHIO ENERGY AND CONVENIENCE ASSOCIATION | $94,603 |
| VERMONT FUEL DEALERS ASSOCIATION | $71,285 |
| WISCONSIN FUEL & RETAIL ASSOCIATION | $69,139 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 65% 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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PPPENNSYLVANIA PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +68% · 49% of their budget
- MEMASSACHUSETTS ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.6M · revenue +49% · 94% of their budget
- MEMAINE ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +16% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- VPVIRGINIA PETROLEUM CONVENIENCE AND GROCERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $193k
- OPOHIO PETROLEUM MARKETERS AND CONVENIENCE STORE ASSOC INCone grant, 2017 · $149k · revenue -21%
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.
Promotion of heating fuels, motor fuels, convenience stores and equipment through educational courses and public education announcements.
Represent the diverse interests of petroleum industry members before state and local governmental, regulatory, and legislative authorities. plays a major role in consensus building and promoting issues on behalf of the entire industry in…
Promotion and development of the liquified petroleum gas industry within the state of iowa and the coordination of its activities to the end that it may serve to the fullest possible extent the best interests of its members and the public;…
To promote and develop the propane gas industry to the end that it may serve, to the fullest extent, the best interest of its members and the public within the mid-atlantic region of the united states.
To promote the safe use and operation of propane gas.
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…
The mission of the florida petroleum marketers association is to protect the industry and advocate on its behalf. we strive to promote a growth oriented business community in the state of florida and work to ensure that everyone of our…
The purposes for which this organization is formed are: 1. to promote the interest and welfare of those members engaged in the marketing, distribution, manufacturing or brokering of motor fuel, heating fuel or alternative fuel energy,…
Promotion of the exploration, production, refining, and marketing of oil and natural gas.
To empower the energy industry through education, leadership development, and industry connections.
To promote the safe and responsible development of oil and gas resources in new mexico through advocacy, collaboration, and education.
The new york propance gas association (nypga) is a member focused trade organization providing services that communicate, educate and promote the propane industry in new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York State Energy Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oil Heat Institute of Long Island Inc. 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 32 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 PENNSYLVANIA PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STATE ENERGY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds FUEL MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION OF NJ ↗
- Who funds ENERGY MARKETERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE NEW YORK ENERGY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC PETROLEUM DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PETROLEUM AND CONVENIENCE MARKETERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK OIL HEATING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE ENERGY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FUEL DEALERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OIL HEAT INSTITUTE OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PETROLEUM MARKETERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO ENERGY AND CONVENIENCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FUEL & RETAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO PETROLEUM MARKETERS AND CONVENIENCE STORE ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA FOOD & FUEL ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization National Oilheat Research Alliance 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Fuel Dealers Association — 1% 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.