Oklahoma · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS
SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,380 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS FOUNDATION ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Society of Exploration Geophysicists does
Mission
To promote the science of applied geophysics and related fields, including applications and research, to foster the common scientific interests of geophysicists, and to maintain a high professional standing among its members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conference and meetings - regional, international, and research workshops - to promote the science of geophysics and foster common scientific interests.
Publications providing information on geophysics exploration research and current developments
Continuing education - to promote the science of geophysics through general and technical training
Merit based scholarships, field camp grants, student and early career programs, geoscientists without borders program, & travel grants
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $26M to $19M (−26%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $60k → $19k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seg Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS raised.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $37k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $78k on record.
- Department of Energy$69k
- Department of Agriculture$5k
- Department of Defense$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Seg Foundation · exempt
- Seg Advanced Modeling Corporation · exempt
- Seg Global Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS?
- SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS (Oklahoma) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,380 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS FOUNDATION ($60,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $97,380 in grants to SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICISTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing