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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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$118,586
Largest grant, FY2024
$488,586
Organizations funded a year
19 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
18
Total assets, FY2024
$22M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations National Oilheat Research Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $590k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Membership BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$3.6M0%
FY202319$4.3M5%
FY202220$4.6M15%
FY202121$4.7M5%
FY202021$4.6M14%
FY201922$5.0M0%
FY201822$6.4M9%
FY201722$5.9Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$35MCommunity Improvement$3.0MScience & Tech$1.3MFood & Nutrition$35k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
UT
KY
VA
MD
NC
SC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

National Oilheat Research Alliance supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPennsylvania Petroleum Association Inc: $5,508,866 over 8y, 49% of budgetMassachusetts Energy Marketers Association Inc: $4,582,864 over 8y, 94% of budgetMaine Energy Marketers Association: $2,785,262 over 8y, 31% of budgetNew York State Energy Coalition Inc: $2,610,234 over 5y, 83% of budgetFuel Merchants Association of Nj: $2,454,902 over 8y, 35% of budgetMid-Atlantic Petroleum Distributors Association Inc: $1,471,873 over 8y, 50% of budgetVirginia Petroleum and Convenience Marketers Association Inc: $1,045,316 over 7y, 31% of budgetNew York Oil Heating Association Inc: $1,002,111 over 3y, 69% of budgetEmpire State Energy Association Inc: $920,631 over 2y, 62% of budgetVermont Fuel Dealers Association: $917,612 over 8y, 31% of budgetOil Heat Institute of Long Island Inc: $867,491 over 3y, 71% of budgetMichigan Petroleum Association: $750,828 over 8y, 16% of budgetKentucky Petroleum Marketers Association: $413,627 over 8y, 13% of budgetOhio Energy and Convenience Association: $303,124 over 3y, 14% of budgetSouth Carolina Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association Inc: $267,528 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetWisconsin Fuel & Retail Association Inc: $199,150 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetIndiana Food & Fuel Association: $35,464 over 5y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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About National Oilheat Research Alliance

How much does National Oilheat Research Alliance give?
National Oilheat Research Alliance reported 19 grants totaling $3,573,530 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does National Oilheat Research Alliance fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (89%), Community Improvement (8%), Science & Tech (3%).
Who are National Oilheat Research Alliance's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pennsylvania Petroleum Association Inc ($5.5M), Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association Inc ($4.6M), Maine Energy Marketers Association ($2.8M).
Does National Oilheat Research Alliance fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is National Oilheat Research Alliance based?
National Oilheat Research Alliance is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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