Public charity
Shell Foundation
Shell Foundation is a uk registered charity that enables millions of underserved people to earn a living income with clean energy access in africa and asia. It focuses on three core customer groups: smallholder farmers, urban transporters and microentrepreneurs. These three segments represents the largest number of people whose income…
- $8.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,550,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $697M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Shell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $1.6M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $2.8M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $4.7M | 83% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $7.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odyssey Energy Solutions Inc | $3,610,891 | 4 | n/a |
| Factor(E) Ventures Ltd | $2,250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Google LLC - X Division | $1,550,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Africa Minigrid Developers Association Inc | $1,100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Social Investment Managers and Advisors LLC | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Metro Africa Xpress Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Burn Manufacturing Company | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mirova Africa Inc | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Akili Ventures LLC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
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About Shell Foundation
- How much does Shell Foundation give?
- Shell Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $1,550,000, out of $8,432,253 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Shell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (51%), Environment (33%), International (8%).
- Who are Shell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Odyssey Energy Solutions Inc ($3.6M), Factor(E) Ventures Ltd ($2.3M), Google LLC - X Division ($1.6M).
- Does Shell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
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