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EM2 Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brooks Gives Back | $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 (FY19–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 57% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of EM2 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HCHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD4× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +39%
- AAAdult and Teen Challenge of Texas3× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +259%
- HMHOPE MOMMIES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $800 · revenue +41%
Funded once
- WDWALTER DUB JONES MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2019 · $14k
- HCHILL COUNTRY MISSION FOR HEALTHone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -11%
- DKDELTA KILO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -64%
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.
The foundation was organized to receive endowment gifts given in support of alamo heights united methodist church (ahumc), to invest and manage these funds, to provide periodic distributions to ahumc, and to assist in carrying out ahumc's…
Provide emergency shelter to victims of domestic violence and their children and pets. during 2024, provided emergency shelter and support services to 282 unduplicated women, men and children and 30 pets and non-residential services to 151…
Supplying high-quality food to local individuals in need.
Operates exclusively to support the westover hills assembly of god church with operating expenses and any other financial needs that the church may have.
The primary activity of the arc of fort bend county foundation is to manage and distribute investment funds in support of the arc of fort bend county.
Promotion/production of live theatre
The organization's mission is to provide emergency assistance with the goal of restoration for individuals and families who are experiencing economic stress. the organization operates a resale store.
To give every pet in the hill country the best life possible through successful rescue, adoption, community relationships, awareness, and advocacy.
The mission of the school is to provide a distinctive classical and christ-centered education that prepares students for servant-leadership and lives that glorify god.
Any woman can, np (dba awc centers) is a christ-centered ministry that provides a place for people to make informed decisions on unplanned pregnancy, sexual health and related mental health (emotional) health issues.
Dedicated to serving the people in wimberley and surrounding communities with the finest in emergency medical care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill Country Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delta Kilo Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds Brooks Gives Back Inc ↗
- Who funds Adult and Teen Challenge of Texas ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY MISSION FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DELTA KILO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Love Kendall County Kids ↗
- Who funds HOPE MOMMIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · San Antonio Food Bank · San Antonio Area Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 EM2 Foundation 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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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.