· Private foundation
Shell USA Company Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of SHELL USA COMPANY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4291 grants · $7.6M
- $10k–50k332 grants · $5.9M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $291k
Largely a single collection — about 100% of reported assets are Royalty Interest.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $290,782 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $237,697 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER HOUSTON | $188,719 |
| STAR OF HOPE MISSION | $119,514 |
| UNITED WAY OF ST CHARLES | $106,835 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION | $98,285 |
| THE AWTY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $95,620 |
| TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION | $92,460 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA | $88,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $85,936 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $77,349 |
| JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $74,034 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $66,647 |
| HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION | $65,814 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $65,725 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those 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 +44% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
1911 repeat relationships — 1350 still active in FY2024, 561 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $216k 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
United Way of Greater Houston8× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +5%
The Houston Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +107%- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- JJJUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $106k · revenue -19%
- SLSienna Lutheran Academyone grant, 2017 · $75k
- CCCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Galveston-Houone grant, 2017 · $61k
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To provide professional investment management and related services for the funds under management and control of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System.
Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.
Houston Christian Foundation (HCF), an affiliate of the National Christian Foundation (NCF), was created to facilitate Christian giving by offering the convenience and efficiency of donor-advised funds through NCF. HCF provides educational…
Bosque School is a coeducational college preparatory school creating transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate…
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
A private institution of higher education, offering students undergraduate and graduate courses.
Faith based medical research organization bringing innovative treatment to patients through basic science, clinical trials, and health care effectiveness and quality of care research.
A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friday Harbour. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1358 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. 1358 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of St Charles ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Houston Public Media Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds The Awty International School ↗
- Who funds Living Water International ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA YOUTH SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF GALVESTON - HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds United Way of Skagit County ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds The John Cooper School ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZENS FOUNDATION USA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Junior League of Houston Inc · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Strake Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · Houston Petset
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 Shell USA Company Foundation 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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