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Propane Education & Research Council Inc at a glance

· Public charity

Propane Education & Research Council Inc

To develop programs and projects including programs to enhance consumer and employee safety & training, to provide for research & development of clean and efficient propane utilization equipment to inform and educate the public about safety and other issues associated with the use of propane.

$641k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$508kEducation$164kScience & Tech$8k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $574,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $640,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $258k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ENGLAND PROPANE FOUNDATION$160,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN PERC$90,000
PACIFIC PROPANE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION$46,500
PROPANE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS$30,000
COLORADO PROPANE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH COUNCIL$30,000
OKLAHOMA PROPANE EDUCATION AND SAFETY COUNCIL$30,000
MIPERC$28,000
VIRGINIA PREF$27,500
OHIO PERC$26,000
NEW MEXICO PERF$20,000
PROPANE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA$20,000
PRAIRIE STATE COLLEGE$7,500
SOUTH-WESTERN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,500
HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$7,500
GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School: $8k → 10%GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 14%Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology: $8k → 9%Mid-America Technology Center: $8k → 10%OKLAHOMA PROPANE EDUCATION AND SAFETY COUNCIL: $30k → 16%PACIFIC PROPANE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $47k → 16%PROPANE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $20k → 12%CHILTON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $6k → 16%Northeast Alabama Community College: $8k → 19%PROPANE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS: $30k → 14%CLEVELAND STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 13%SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 20%Davis Technical College: $8k → 6%University of Northwestern Ohio: $8k → 13%SOUTH-WESTERN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $8k → 15%PRAIRIE STATE COLLEGE: $8k → 14%Southwestern Illinois College: $8k → 16%PEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 18%VIRGINIA PREF: $28k → 9%New Horizon Educational Foundation Inc: $8k → 14%Southern Virginia Higher Education Center: $8k → 17%Southside Virginia Community College: $8k → 21%Central Louisiana Technical Community College: $8k → 19%NEW ENGLAND PROPANE FOUNDATION: $160k → 7%HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 18%City of Lewiston School Department: $8k → 13%Southern Penobscot VOC School Reg 4: $8k → 15%Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School District: $8k → 10%MIPERC: $28k → 16%OHIO PERC: $26k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
MI
MA
OH
PA
UT
KY
VA
KS
TN
NC
OK
LA
MS
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southeast Propane Education and Research Foundation

To promote the use of propane gas and provide training for industry personnel.

Human Services
2
Pacific Propane Gas Association

Provide Education To Professionals In The Propane Gas Industry and the General Public Promote the Propane Gas Industry

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3
Southeast Propane Technical Education Center Inc

To promote, protect and encourage the growth of the lp-gas industry in the southeast through technical education.

Education
4
Propane Council of Texas

To educate energy users in texas of the safety, environmental soundness, and cost efficiency of propane as an alternative fuel and to facilitate educational programs utilizing the perc funds rebated to the state of texas.

Education
5
Natural Gas Partners Foundation
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6
New York Propane Gas Association

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.

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7
National Propane Gas Foundation

To foster, sponsor, support and promote endeavors in the public interest relating to the fields of scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
8
Illinois Propane Gas Association

To promote and sponsor the safe and varied uses of propane, to sponsor education and safety programs for persons in the propane industry, monitor and take appropriate action of other sources of energy that may disrupt the use of propane,…

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9
Propane Gas Assoc of New Eng Inc

To promote the safe use and operation of propane gas.

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10
North Dakota Propane Gas Assoc

Safety education for handling propane

Community Improvement
11
Louisiana Lp Gas Association

Promote the propane gas industry in louisiana

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12
National Propane Gas Association

To advance safety and to increase the use of propane through sound public policy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Propane Education Foundation of Alabama; the most unlike its peers is Sampson Community College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
2/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKY MOUNTAIN PROPANE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH COUNCIL INC: $90,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN PROPANE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CO…PROPANE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INC: $30,000 · OtherPROPANE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INCOKLAHOMA PROPANE EDUCATION AND SAFETY COUNCIL: $30,000 · OtherOKLAHOMA PROPANE EDUCATION AND SAFETY COUNCIL+19 more: $141,250 · Other+19 moreNE PROPANE FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · Community ImprovementNE PROPANE FOUNDATION INCMIPERC: $28,000 · Community ImprovementMIPERCVIRGINIA PROPANE RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA PROPANE RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDA…Ohio Propane Education and Research Council: $26,000 · Community ImprovementOhio Propane Education and Research CouncilPROPANE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPROPANE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALABAMANew Mexico Propane Education and Research Foundation: $20,000 · Community ImprovementNew Mexico Propane Education and Research Foun…PROPANE EDUCATION & RESEARCH COUNCIL OF COLORADO: $30,000 · EducationPROPANE ED…HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EducationHOPKINSVIL…NEW HORIZONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationNEW HORIZO…UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY…SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationSAMPSON CO…Pacific Propane Education and Research Foundation: $46,500 · Membership Benefit
Other$291,250Community Improvement$281,500Education$60,000Membership Benefit$46,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPacific Propane Education and Research Foundation: $46,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetMIPERC: $28,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetOhio Propane Education and Research Council: $26,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPROPANE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW HORIZONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NE PROPANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Propane Education and Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROPANE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROPANE EDUCATION & RESEARCH COUNCIL OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds MIPERC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA PROPANE RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ohio Propane Education and Research Council ↗
  • Who funds PROPANE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds New Mexico Propane Education and Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
  • Who funds SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

I Car Education Found…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
I Car Education FoundationIL15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: I Car Education Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Propane Education & Research Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Propane Education & Research Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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