· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $574,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $640,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,250 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND PROPANE FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PERC | $90,000 |
| PACIFIC PROPANE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $46,500 |
| COLORADO PROPANE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| PROPANE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS | $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 |
| GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| PRAIRIE STATE COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| SOUTH-WESTERN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $7,500 |
| ST LANDRY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD | $7,500 |
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 (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.
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.
To promote the use of propane gas and provide training for industry personnel.
Provide Education To Professionals In The Propane Gas Industry and the General Public Promote the Propane Gas Industry
To promote, protect and encourage the growth of the lp-gas industry in the southeast through technical education.
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.
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.
To foster, sponsor, support and promote endeavors in the public interest relating to the fields of scientific research and education.
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,…
To promote the safe use and operation of propane gas.
Safety education for handling propane
Promote the propane gas industry in louisiana
To advance safety and to increase the use of propane through sound public policy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Propane Education Foundation of Alabama and 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.
13 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. 13 of the 34 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 NE PROPANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Pacific Propane Education and Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROPANE EDUCATION & RESEARCH COUNCIL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds PROPANE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MIPERC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PROPANE RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ohio Propane Education and Research Council ↗
- Who funds New Mexico Propane Education and Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROPANE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
- Who funds SAMPSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPKINSVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Propane Education & Research Council Inc 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.
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.