· Public charity
Born Again Emporium Inc
To provide financial aid to community organizations
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Smithville Ministerial | $20,000 |
| Soc of St Vincent de Paul | $20,000 |
| Angels Unaware | $15,000 |
| Smithville Police Assoc | $10,000 |
| Smithville Comm Clinic | $10,000 |
| Feed the Need Mission | $10,000 |
| Combined Community Action | $8,500 |
| Smithville Workforce Train | $7,000 |
| Bastrop Pregnancy Center | $6,000 |
| Smithville Vol Fire Dept | $5,000 |
| Refuge for DMST | $5,000 |
| Bastrop Cty Child Welfare | $4,000 |
| Young Life | $2,500 |
| Smiithville Food Pantry | $2,500 |
| Smithville Ed Foundation | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN4× · 2020–2023 · $71k · revenue +83%
- SCSMITHVILLE COMMUNITY CLINIC4× · 2020–2023 · $41k · revenue +61%
- CCCOMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $36k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- SMSmithville Ministerialone grant, 2022 · $24k
- TKTHE KIDS OUTDOORS ZONE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +47%
- AUAngels Unawareone grant, 2020 · $9k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Assist residents and transients of Smith County with basic needs, including food, clothing, and emergency utility assistance
Operating in donated space, we provide food and supplies, to all who come to us and say they are in need, based on family size. Everyone is a volunteer - seven Churches work together as one.
Mass Shelter (Men's Shelter and Women's Shelter) Lodgings, Meals served on premises and items of clothing distributed and related sales of books and misc items
To meet the basic physical, spiritual, and social need of people in our area using the ministry of Jesus as a model.
Provide fire supresssion and prevention. Provide medical emergency services to the public.
The smithtown fire department is organized to save lives, surpress and control fires, provide emergency rescue and medical services, fire prevention education and to serve in any needed capacity for which it is trained, to assist the…
Provide emergency food, including USDA and monetary assistance to needy families and individuals
To provide free healthcare services to low-income, uninsured adults in georgetown county, sc. the clinic envisions a healthier community where healthcare services are available to all regardless of their financial capability.
Assist families in need with food and clothing
Providing food clothing and shelter to individuals in life crisis situations
To support and promote the City of Smithville
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Combined Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bastrop Hope House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds SMITHVILLE COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMBINED COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Feed The Need Missions ↗
- Who funds Smithville Workforce Training Center ↗
- Who funds SMITHVILLE POLICE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Smithville Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds Smithville Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds BASTROP PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE KIDS OUTDOORS ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds SERENITYSTAR ↗
- Who funds Bastrop Hope House ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Born Again Emporium Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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