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E & M Foundation Inc at a glance

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E & M Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$181k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$255kReligion$45kArts & Culture$17kInternational$10kPublic Benefit$7kPhilanthropy$5kEmployment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $164k
$19,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$598k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 92% of reported assets are held in East West Bank At 12 31 2025.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UT Health Science Center at San Antonio$45,000
TRINITY UNIVERSITY$30,000
Rice University$25,000
Baylor College of Medicine$20,000
Texas Christian University$19,200
Houston Taiwan Institute for Seniors$15,000
Asia Society$10,000
University of St Thomas$8,976
Trio Oriens$6,000
University of Oklahoma Foundation$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%University of Delaware: $4k → 10%Army War College Foundation: $2k → 8%TBAA ROC Grassroots Diplomacy Inc: $10k → 8%IBPS Chung Mei Temple: $5k → 8%Texas Health and Science University: $15k → 10%Texas Christian University: $19k → 11%UT Southwestern Medical Center: $20k → 14%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%Asia Society: $10k → 16%Sam Houston State University: $11k → 20%University of Oklahoma Foundation: $5k → 13%Georgetown University: $20k → 14%Utah State University: $260k → 12%Xavier University: $5k → 23%Texas Christian University: $18k → 11%Texas Taiwanese Biotechnology Association: $3k → 14%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%Houston Holocaust Museum Foundation: $3k → 16%University of Oklahoma Foundation: $3k → 13%Georgetown University: $10k → 14%Utah State Univ: $100k → 12%TRINITY UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%Joint Chinese College Alumni Association of Houston Scholarships Inc: $5k → 16%Utah State Univ: $100k → 12%UT Health Science Center at San Antonio: $45k → 16%Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation: $24k → 16%Utah State Univ: $100k → 12%UT Health Science Center at San Antonio: $45k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $35k → 16%University of St Thomas: $33k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $30k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS: $25k → 16%University of St Thomas: $20k → 16%University of St Thomas: $18k → 16%University of St Thomas: $15k → 16%University of St Thomas: $9k → 16%Trio Oriens: $7k → 16%Trio Oriens: $6k → 16%Houston Taiwan Institute for Seniors: $15k → 16%Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation: $10k → 16%Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation: $10k → 16%Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation: $10k → 16%Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation: $5k → 16%Houston Taiwan Institute for Seniors: $5k → 16%Houston Taiwan Institute for Senior Citizens: $3k → 16%Houston Taiwan Institute for Senior Citizens: $3k → 16%Houston Taiwan Institute for Senior Citizens: $3k → 16%American Leadership Forum: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IN
PA
CA
UT
DE
DC
OK
LA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 17 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
19

Total granted

$1.4M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+11%

Still filing today

65%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    8× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +70%
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    8× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +104%
  • TU
    Trinity University
    3× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +8%
  • TH
    Texas Health and Science University
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • SH
    SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
6
Baylor University

The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.

Education
7
South Texas College of Law Houston Inc

South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
10
Uatx

Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…

Education
11
Howard Payne University

Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.

Education
12
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of St Thomas; the most unlike its peers is Tbaa Roc Grassroots Diplomacy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $560,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYUT Health Science Center at San Antonio: $90,000 · OtherUT Health Science Center at San AntonioUT Southwestern Medical Center: $50,000 · OtherUT Southwestern Medical CenterBuddhist Tzu Chi Foundation: $35,000 · Other+18 more: $82,143 · Other+18 moreUniversity of St Thomas: $185,508 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasWilliam Marsh Rice University: $142,422 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityTrinity University: $90,000 · EducationTrinity UniversityBaylor College of Medicine: $75,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $36,924 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYHOUSTON TAIWAN INSTITUTE FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $30,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · Education+5 more: $35,335 · Education+5 moreTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $24,000 · HealthTOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE: $3,000 · ReligionHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$817,143Education$625,689Health$24,000Religion$3,000Philanthropy$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $185,508 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $142,422 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity University: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $36,924 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON TAIWAN INSTITUTE FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: $30,500 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $10,335 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTBAA ROC GRASSROOTS DIPLOMACY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetAmerican Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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 University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds Trinity University ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON TAIWAN INSTITUTE FOR SENIOR CITIZENS ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TBAA ROC GRASSROOTS DIPLOMACY INC ↗
  • Who funds American Leadership Forum Houston Gulf Coast Chapter ↗
  • Who funds THE JOINT CHINESE COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMY WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds TOUCH LIFE MISSION DR GORDON S LEE ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX13.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization E & M Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E & M Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 37 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home