Molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous methane, ethane, methanol, benzene, acetate ion, and methylammonium ion have been performed with two different water models. The SPC/E model is a pairwise-additive potential, while the related POL3 model includes nonadditivity in the form of atomic polarizabilities. Structural and energetic quantities were collected over 90-ps simulations and compared between models and among solutes; the proximity criterion was used to divide the water into mutually exclusive sets for analysis. Overall, the agreement with previous studies and between the SPC/E and POL3 models is substantial. Results suggest that the structure of water is preserved, rather than enhanced, around hydrophobic groups and that waters hydrogen-bonding to polar solute groups sacrifice solvent-solvent interactions to some degree. Solute methyl groups are not uniformly hydrophobic; as expected, their polarity and the surrounding solvent structure depend on the neighboring functional groups.