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The Energy TransferSunoco Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Public Safety & Disaster$5.3MHealth$4.5MFood & Nutrition$3.1MEducation$3.0MYouth Development$670kHuman Services$515kRecreation & Sports$132kAnimals$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $525k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$125,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$500,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$500,000
CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$500,000
PHILABUNDANCE$250,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK$200,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$150,000
MERCY STREET INC$125,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$50,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC$25,000
THE STOREHOUSE OF COLLIN COUNTY$10,000
TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC$10,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC$10,000
SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC$6,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 11 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$13M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+36%

Still filing today

73%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $542k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • Philabundance
    8× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +89%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    8× · 2018–2025 · $925k · revenue +92%
  • MS
    MERCY STREET
    8× · 2018–2025 · $670k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Marygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3.0M · revenue +36%
  • AN
    AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - DALLAS FORTH WORTH M
    one grant, 2022 · $750k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

2
Regional East Texas Food Bank

Etfb's mission is to fight hunger and feed hope in east texas.

3
The Food Trust

The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

Our mission is to leverage the power of community to achieve lasting solutions to hunger and its root causes.

Food & Nutrition
6
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

7
Share Food Program

As the largest serving hunger-relief organization in the greater philadelphia region, share food program's mission is reducing regional food insecurity by providing nourishing food to a network of community-based partners and directly to…

Food & Nutrition
8
Tarrant Area Food Bank

Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to…

9
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
10
Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program Inc

Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…

Environment
11
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
12
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Texas Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Adaptive Training 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 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 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.

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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
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS — $4,525,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSSTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $4,000,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $925,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - DALLAS FORTH WORTH M — $750,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - DALLAS FORTH WORTH M+7 more — $851,500 · Other+7 moreUniversity of Mary — $3,000,000 · EducationUniversity of MaryPhilabundance — $2,000,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabundanc…MERCY STREET — $670,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $500,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC — $25,000 · HealthAdaptive Training Foundation — $125,000 · Human ServicesTRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC — $85,000 · Animals
Other$11,051,500Education$3,000,000Food & Nutrition$2,000,000Youth Development$670,000Health$525,000Human Services$125,000Animals$85,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Mary — $3,000,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPhilabundance — $2,000,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK — $925,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY STREET — $670,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $225,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAdaptive Training Foundation — $125,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC — $85,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC — $70,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 University of Mary
  • Who funds Philabundance
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds MERCY STREET
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Adaptive Training Foundation
  • Who funds TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE DELAWARE ESTUARY INC
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC
  • Who funds THE STOREHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION INC

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Energy TransferSunoco 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 69%
  • Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc69% of income from government
  • Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Energy TransferSunoco Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Energy TransferSunoco Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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