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Born Again Emporium Inc

To provide financial aid to community organizations

$132k
Granted FY2023
19
Grants FY2023
18
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 18
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$184k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Born Again Emporium Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202318$132k28%
FY202215$172k40%
FY202114$132k86%
FY20206$62kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$141kHuman Services$118kHealth$74kReligion$33kHousing & Shelter$32kEmployment$31kYouth Development$25kPhilanthropy$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of Austin$71,00040%
Samella Williams Angels Unaware Ministry$55,0003n/a
Smithville Community Clinic$40,50043%
Smithville Ministerial$39,0002n/a
Combined Community Action Inc$36,00030%
Feed The Need Missions$36,00032%
Smithville Workforce Training Center$30,50034%
Smithville Ministerial$24,0001n/a
Smithville Police Association$21,000327%
Smithville Food Pantry$18,50038%
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All grantees of Born Again Emporium Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of Austin$71,00040%
Samella Williams Angels Unaware Ministry$55,0003n/a
Smithville Community Clinic$40,50043%
Smithville Ministerial$39,0002n/a
Combined Community Action Inc$36,00030%
Feed The Need Missions$36,00032%
Smithville Workforce Training Center$30,50034%
Smithville Ministerial$24,0001n/a
Smithville Police Association$21,000327%
Smithville Food Pantry$18,50038%
Smithville Volunteer Fire Department$15,0002n/a
Bastrop Pregnancy Resource Center$14,50024%
Bastrop Cty Child Welfare$14,5003n/a
The Kids Outdoors Zone Inc$10,00012%
Angels Unaware$9,0001n/a
City of Smithville$7,5101n/a
Meals on Wheels$7,5001n/a
Serenitystar$7,50010%
Bastrop Hope House$7,00013%
Smithville Education Foundation$7,0002n/a
The Refuge for Dmst$5,0001n/a
Bastrop Pregnancy$5,0001n/a
Hope House$5,0001n/a
International Association of Lions Clubs$3,0001n/a
Young Life$2,50010%
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the US Dept of Texas Auxiliary$2,5001n/a
Homecoming Organization$1,0001n/a
Smithville High School Project Graduation$1,0001n/a
Disciple Learner Resources$1,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Born Again Emporium Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of Austin: $71,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSmithville Community Clinic: $40,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCombined Community Action Inc: $36,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFeed The Need Missions: $36,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSmithville Workforce Training Center: $30,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSmithville Police Association: $21,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetSmithville Food Pantry: $18,500 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetBastrop Pregnancy Resource Center: $14,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetThe Kids Outdoors Zone Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSerenitystar: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBastrop Hope House: $7,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetYoung Life: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way for Greater AustinTX13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Born Again Emporium Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Born Again Emporium Inc

How much does Born Again Emporium Inc give?
Born Again Emporium Inc reported 19 grants totaling $131,500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Born Again Emporium Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (28%), Human Services (24%), Health (15%).
Who are Born Again Emporium Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: The Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocesan Council of Austin ($71k), Samella Williams Angels Unaware Ministry ($55k), Smithville Community Clinic ($41k).
Does Born Again Emporium Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Born Again Emporium Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way for Greater Austin, St David's Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Born Again Emporium Inc based?
Born Again Emporium Inc is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $255k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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