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Western States Petroleum Association at a glance

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Western States Petroleum Association

Maintain a full-service, broad-based, member-driven oil and gas industry trade association within the western u.s., dedicated to promoting a healthy and safe work environment, effectively mitigating risks, and ensuring a vibrant industry through policies that are socially, economically, and environmentally responsible.

$75k
Granted FY2023
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Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Community Improvement$620kEnvironment$355kEducation$81kYouth Development$50kReligion$50kPublic Benefit$10kHealth$8k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARED ENERGY FUTURE FOUNDATION$75,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CALIFORNIA LABOR OIL MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE: $600k → 12%PYLES BOYS CAMP: $35k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $8k → 19%BELLINGHAM TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $28k → 12%SHARED ENERGY FUTURE FOUNDATION: $180k → 12%PYLES BOYS CAMP: $15k → 14%BELLINGHAM TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $25k → 12%CALIFORNIA CLEAN GAS ASSOCIATION: $100k → 12%BIZFED LOS ANGELES: $20k → 14%SHARED ENERGY FUTURE FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Californians for Energy and Science

To provide californians with accurate, science-based information about energy and climate issues, enabling informed decision-making for our state's energy future. we believe that through education and transparent research, we can help…

Education
2
California Energy Alliance

The California Energy Alliance (CEA) unites representatives of a broad range of organizations concerned about energy and the build environment. As a member-based organization, CEA works to improve California's energy future and migration…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Bioenergy Association of California

The Bioenergy Association of California focuses on promoting sustainable bioenergy development, including renewable electricity and fuels made from organic waste. We also promote bioenergy through policy advocacy, communications, public…

Community Improvement
4
Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources
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5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
Clean Energy for America Inc

Clean Energy for Americas purpose is to engage with clean energy workers and advance the clean energy movement. CE4A highlights the feasibility and positive impact of a clean energy economy, educates policymakers and the general public on…

Environment
7
California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance

To create a california where balancing economic growth and environmental protection is not only a vision, but also a reality.

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8
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
9
Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies

CEERT designs and fights for policies that advance clean, renewable, energy and climate solutions for California and the West. CEERT's team of professional staff, active board members, expert consultants, and clean-technology and…

Environment
10
Advocates for Climate Innovation
Philanthropy
11
California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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12
Clean Energy for America Education Fund

Clean Energy for America Action Fund (CE4AEF) is a network of clean energy business leaders, workers, and advocates advancing federal decarbonization policies to protect our environment. CE4AEF works to demonstrate the depth, breadth, and…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington Policy Center; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA LABOR OIL MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE: $600,000 · Community ImprovementCALIFORNIA LABOR OIL MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE+1 more: $20,000 · Community ImprovementSHARED ENERGY FUTURE FOUNDATION: $254,750 · PhilanthropySHARED ENERGY FUTURE FOU…CALIFORNIA CLEAN GAS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA CLE…RM PYLES BOYS CAMP: $50,000 · OtherRM PYLES BOYS …Bellingham Technical College Foundation: $80,900 · EducationPROJECT42: $50,000 · ReligionWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $10,000 · Civil RightsAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 · Health
Community Improvement$620,000Philanthropy$254,750Other$150,000Education$80,900Religion$50,000Civil Rights$10,000Health$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA LABOR OIL MANAGEMENT ALLIANCE: $600,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetSHARED ENERGY FUTURE FOUNDATION: $254,750 over 2y, 97% of budgetCALIFORNIA CLEAN GAS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetBellingham Technical College Foundation: $80,900 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetRM PYLES BOYS CAMP: $50,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPROJECT42: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY BUSINESS FEDERATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON POLICY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Western States Petroleum Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western States Petroleum Association. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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