· Public charity
Born Again Emporium Inc
To provide financial aid to community organizations
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Feed the Need Mission | $10,000 |
| Smithville Comm Clinic | $10,000 |
| Smithville Police Assoc | $10,000 |
| Combined Community Action | $8,500 |
| Smithville Workforce Train | $7,000 |
| Bastrop Pregnancy Center | $6,000 |
| Refuge for DMST | $5,000 |
| Smithville Vol Fire Dept | $5,000 |
| Bastrop Cty Child Welfare | $4,000 |
| Smiithville Food Pantry | $2,500 |
| Young Life | $2,500 |
| Smithville Ed Foundation | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +76%
- AUAngels Unawareone grant, 2020 · $9k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way for Greater Austin · St David's Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Born Again Emporium Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Born Again Emporium Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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