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Oil Change International Inc

Oil Change International Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,625,408 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($6,479,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$10.0M
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$25M
Net assets
$9.3M
31/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Oil Change International Inc does

Mission

To conduct ongoing public education and research regarding the environmental, human rights, economic, and national security impacts associated with the production and consumption of fossil fuels.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Global Campaigns - Educate the public regarding public institution support for the fossil fuel industry. Research extent of public finance and subsidies for energy. Educate the public regarding changes in international energy policy and the impacts of fossil fuel development. Research the impacts of policy developments on the production and expansion of fossil fuels. Research and analyze fossil fuel industry economics and impacts on the environment, development, and energy security. Educate the public and the investor community about the environmental and social impacts of the fossil fuel industry. (Public finance, Global policy, Global industry)

    $2,641,527 spent
    29% of program spending
  2. International Regional programs - Educate the public regarding the impacts on fossil fuel development in regions outside the United States, specifically Asia, Africa, and the North Sea region with an emphasis on oil and gas expansion and infrastructure. Educate the public regarding public policy around fossil fuels and public finance for fossil fuels and promote awareness about the impacts of fossil fuel on our society (Asia, Africa, and North Sea)

    $5,585,099 spent
    62% of program spending
  3. United States - Educate the public regarding the impacts on fossil fuel development in the United States, with an emphasis on oil and gas industry expansion and oil and gas infrastructure. Educate the public about the fossil fuel industrys influence on policy making. Educate the public regarding domestic fossil fuel subsidies and promote awareness about the impacts of fossil fuel on our society. (US)

    $816,604 spent
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,043,230.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 54 ($1.8M) Expenses 101 ($2.5M) Net assets 51 ($738k)2019 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 110 ($2.8M) Net assets 91 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 105 ($3.5M) Expenses 116 ($2.9M) Net assets 135 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 135 ($3.4M) Net assets 135 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 169 ($5.7M) Expenses 159 ($3.9M) Net assets 253 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 241 ($8.1M) Expenses 225 ($5.6M) Net assets 423 ($6.1M)2024 Revenue 344 ($11M) Expenses 284 ($7.1M) Net assets 720 ($10M)2025 Revenue 298 ($10.0M) Expenses 446 ($11M) Net assets 641 ($9.3M)
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Revenue (298)Expenses (446)Net assets (641)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $11M (+70%).

$1.5M
$905k
$1.4M
$2.2M
$2.0M
$3.7M
$6.5M
$11M
$11M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of Oil Change International Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,093 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$853k
’17
−$713k
’18
$589k
’19
$636k
’20
−$6k
’21
$1.7M
’22
$2.5M
’23
$4.4M
’24
−$1.2M
’25
5.8
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Elizabeth Bast

Executive Director

Board chair

Leslie Harroun

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed91212131613141819
Joined·+3+0+3+6+1+3+5+2
No longer listed·00234211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $894k → $6.7M.

15 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Oil Change International Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Oil Change International Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Oil Change International Inc.

26%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 32% · 2019 40% · 2020 22% · 2021 39% · 2022 27% · 2023 59% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

48% of Oil Change International Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Oil Change International Inc draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
RI
CA
CO
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Oil Change International Inc is better cushioned than half of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Oil Change International Inc?
Oil Change International Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,625,408 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($6,479,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Oil Change International Inc have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $24,625,408 in grants to Oil Change International Inc, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Oil Change International Inc?
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,479,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Oil Change International Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 49 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing