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Valero Energy Foundation

The organization's mission is to collaborate with nonprofit partners across the united states to foster improved quality of life and create measurable impact where unmet needs exist in communities.

$11M
Granted FY2022
20
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
0181% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.1MHuman Services$1.8MRecreation & Sports$590kFood & Nutrition$550kReligion$475kEducation$275kPhilanthropy$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$185kOther$0
02FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $2,796,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $11,410,685 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,614,685 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 · FY2022

  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$130,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS$250,000
THE CENTER FOR HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOUNDATION$200,000
SAN ANTONIO SPORTS FOUNDATION$190,000
CHILDSAFE$180,000
CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$175,000
METHODIST HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES OF SOUTH TEXAS INC$150,000
MEALS ON WHEELS SAN ANTONIO$150,000
SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK INC$150,000
SAMMINISTRIES$150,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION$130,000
Any Baby Can of San Antonio Inc$125,000
CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER OF SOUTH TEXAS$120,000
RESITE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO$113,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Antonio TX Inc$113,000
AVANCE-SAN ANTONIO INC$100,000
02Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2022.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2021 to 2022, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $1,000,543 · OtherUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF SAN ANTONIO FOUNDATIONCHILDSAFE: $500,000 · OtherCHILDSAFEUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMACHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $305,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL & SOUTH TEXAS: $250,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY: $250,000 · OtherSAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK: $250,000 · Other+21 more: $2,951,000 · Other+21 more
Other$6,406,543

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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Find your warmest path to Valero Energy 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $11M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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