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EM2 Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$26kHuman Services$25kYouth Development$14kCommunity Improvement$8kHealth$8kRecreation & Sports$3kPhilanthropy$2kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$96
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Brooks Gives Back$2,000
02The need
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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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%The Delta Kilo Foundation: $2k → 16%Military Warriors Support Foundation: $1k → 16%Hill Country Family Services: $1k → 7%Boerne Community Coalition: $900 → 7%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of EM2 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 75%.

EM2 Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$61k · 7 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$61k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+19%

Still filing today

57%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD
    4× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +39%
  • AA
    Adult and Teen Challenge of Texas
    3× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +259%
  • HM
    HOPE MOMMIES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $800 · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • WD
    WALTER DUB JONES MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $14k
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY MISSION FOR HEALTH
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -11%
  • DK
    DELTA KILO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -64%
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.

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Alamo Heights United Methodist Church Foundation Inc

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…

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2
Kendall County Women's Shelter

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…

Human Services
3
Good News Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
4
Meating the Need

Supplying high-quality food to local individuals in need.

Food & Nutrition
5
Westover Hills Assembly of God Foundation

Operates exclusively to support the westover hills assembly of god church with operating expenses and any other financial needs that the church may have.

Religion
6
Arc of Fort Bend County Foundation

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.

Human Services
7
Harbor Playhouse Company Inc

Promotion/production of live theatre

Arts & Culture
8
Waller Assist & Restor Ministries

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.

Human Services
9
Hill Country Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To give every pet in the hill country the best life possible through successful rescue, adoption, community relationships, awareness, and advocacy.

Animals
10
The Heritage Family School

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.

Education
11
Any Woman Can Np

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.

Human Services
12
Wimberley Emergency Medical Service Systems Inc

Dedicated to serving the people in wimberley and surrounding communities with the finest in emergency medical care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill Country Family Services Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

He Cares Ministries: $20,500 · OtherHe Cares MinistriesWALTER DUB JONES MINISTRIES INC: $13,500 · OtherWALTER DUB JONES MINISTRIES INCAdult and Teen Challenge of Texas: $4,000 · OtherAdult and Teen Challenge of TexasBrooks Community Foundation: $3,500 · OtherBrooks Community FoundationVANGUARD INSTITUTE BOOSTER CLUB INC: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $3,500 · Other+5 moreHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD: $25,500 · Food & NutritionHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREADBrooks Gives Back Inc: $4,500 · Community ImprovementDELTA KILO FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Human ServicesHILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesMILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesLove Kendall County Kids: $900 · Human ServicesHILL COUNTRY MISSION FOR HEALTH: $3,000 · HealthHOPE MOMMIES INC: $800 · HealthSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$47,000Food & Nutrition$25,500Community Improvement$4,500Human Services$4,400Health$3,800Philanthropy$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 budgetHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD: $25,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBrooks Gives Back Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAdult and Teen Challenge of Texas: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILL COUNTRY MISSION FOR HEALTH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDELTA KILO FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHILL COUNTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILITARY WARRIORS SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove Kendall County Kids: $900 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE MOMMIES INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Perry & Ruby Stevens …The Community Foundat…San Antonio Food BankSan Antonio Area Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 EM2 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from EM2 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to EM2 Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to EM2 Foundation 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.

    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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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