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· Public charity
Emgage Foundation Inc
Emgage educates and mobilizes Muslim American voters in support of policies that enable our communities to thrive and democracy to flourish.
$707k
Granted FY2024
14
Grants
5
Communities
$137k
Largest
01What you fund
0174% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Civil Rights$260kHuman Services$250kCommunity Improvement$177kPublic Benefit$119kInternational$30kArts & Culture$16kReligion$14kOther$306k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
—
2020
civic engagementget outout vote
2021
civic engagement
2022
empoweringfocusingenhanceculturaleducation socialculturejustice
2023
empoweringunderservedachieverefugees immigrantsculturehealthjustice
2024
empoweringtexanschangemuhammadmovementsjusticeasian
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $483k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- OCA-Greater Houston$137,000
- National Korean American Service & Education Consortium$122,000
- Every Voice TX$112,000
- NEO Philanthropy$112,000
- BP-SOS Houston$25,000
- VN TeamWork Inc$25,000
- Chinese Community Center Inc$25,000
- IMAN Atlanta$15,000
- Daya Inc$10,000
- Amaanah Refugee Service$10,000
- Masjid Muhammad$10,000
- M-AAA (CHAT)$10,000
- Permissible Laughter Media LLC$9,500
- Masjidullah Inc$7,500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$849k · 9 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +158% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
7
Total granted
$849k
$45k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+158%
+57%
Still filing today
89%
57%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementCivil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureReligionOther
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
- OHOCA-Greater Houston5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +270%
- WJWoori Juntos3× · 2022–2024 · $142k · revenue +158%
- CCChinese Community Center Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $138k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- ISIslamic Society Of North Americaone grant, 2022 · $10k
- WTWeaver Talesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +57%
- MTMustino Times Incone grant, 2020 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Asian American Health Coalition of the Greater Houston Area
The organization provides quality health care programs and service to individuals in its community, including primary care and preventative services.
Health
2
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
3
Aapi Equity Alliance
Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…
Human Services
4
Dance of Asian America
Dance of Asian America promotes & preserves the rich cultural heritage of Asia through authentic Asian dance. In doing so, DAA sustains traditions, builds international ties, educates Houstonians in cross-cultural understanding &
Civil Rights
5
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
Human Services
6
Coalition of Asian American Leaders
The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is a network organization of Asian Minnesotan leaders harnessing our collective power to improve the lives of community.
Arts & Culture
7
Arab American Action Network
Improve quality of life for low income Arab immigrants and Arab Americans living in Chicago area.
Youth Development
8
Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates
Community Improvement
9
Vietnamese American Roundtable
The Vietnamese American Roundtable (VAR) envisions a strong and unified Vietnamese American community that works towards improving our quality of life. To this end, VAR focuses our mission to organize, advocate, and educate our community.…
Community Improvement
10
Fam Intentional Community
Working for justice by building empowered community among refugees, immigrants, and local Houstonians through practices of hospitality, mutuality, storytelling & inclusivity.
Human Services
11
Asian Americans Advancing Justice -
The mission of AAAJ-ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United…
Crime & Legal
12
Muslim Community Network Inc
To foster mutual, collaboration, and communication within the diverse muslim community.
Civil Rights
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boat People Sos -Houston and the most unlike its peers is Pakistani American Voters. 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
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$305,550Civil Rights$259,750Human Services$250,226Community Improvement$176,750Public Benefit$118,500International$30,000Arts & Culture$15,500Religion$13,500
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 OCA-Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Woori Juntos ↗
- Who funds Chinese Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy ↗
- Who funds Every Voice TX ↗
- Who funds Boat People SOS ↗
- Who funds VN TeamWork Inc ↗
- Who funds Amaanah Refugee Service ↗
- Who funds Daya Inc ↗
- Who funds Culture of Health Advancing Together ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Multicultural Services ↗
- Who funds IMAN Atlanta ↗
- Who funds M-AAA (CHAT) ↗
- Who funds Masjidullah Inc ↗
- Who funds Weaver Tales ↗
- Who funds IL Muslim Civic Center ↗
- Who funds Pakistan American Voter Registration ↗
- Who funds Filipino American Natl Historical Society ↗
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.
Houston in Action NetworkTX20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Houston in Action Network · Houston Endowment Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab · Houston in Action · National Coalition for Asian Pacific · Asian Americans Advancing Justice · United Way of Greater Houston · Islamic Relief USA · Gofundmeorg · Rockwell Fund Inc · The Asian American 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 organisation Emgage Foundation Inc 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Weaver Tales.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +57% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 842585675 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Weaver Tales, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Emgage Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Emgage Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines