Texas · Nonprofit
VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION
VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,581,047 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR INC ($1,643,969). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Valero Energy Foundation does
Mission
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. In furtherance of this mission, the organization will contribute funds generated from fundraising through golf and golf-related activities to its tax-exempt, non-profit partners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Valero Energy Foundation raises funds for the purposes of making charitable grants to nonprofit organizations that serve, children, adults and families, in the areas of food insecurity and basic needs, virtual education and digital support/laptops to improve access for underserved kids and children living in poverty, child abuse and mental health services, and improved health care services in underserved neighborhoods where Valero Energy has major operations. During the tax year ended September 30, 2025, 363 charities received grants from the Foundation.
$10,829,557 spentof which $10,829,557 as grants100% of program spendingThe SAFE Fund provides assistance to individuals who have a significant charitable need resulting from an unexpected natural disaster such as a hurricane, tornado or flood, or are experiencing a demonstrable financial hardship related to a home fire, serious illness, or death in the family. Grants are available to affected qualifying current and future employees of Valero Energy Corporation. This fiscal year, several grants were targeted for Hurricane and Tornado Relief. During the tax year ended September 30, 2025, 6 individuals received assistance from the SAFE Fund.
$31,458 spentof which $29,958 as grants0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,861,015.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $35M to $27M (−23%).
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.
209% of VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
R Lane Riggs
President, CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $245k → $1.5M.
12 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 67% · 2019 69% · 2020 35% · 2021 29% · 2022 23% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“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
33% of VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
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
VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Against its field
VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION: 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 VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION?
- VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,581,047 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR INC ($1,643,969). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $6,581,047 in grants to VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION?
- PGA TOUR INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,643,969 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALERO ENERGY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 36 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