· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $630,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $706,925 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $76,925 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $483k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCA-Greater Houston | $137,000 |
| National Korean American Service & Education Consortium | $122,000 |
| Every Voice TX | $112,000 |
| NEO Philanthropy | $112,000 |
| Chinese Community Center Inc | $25,000 |
| BP-SOS Houston | $25,000 |
| VN TeamWork Inc | $25,000 |
| IMAN Atlanta | $15,000 |
| M-AAA (CHAT) | $10,000 |
| Daya Inc | $10,000 |
| Amaanah Refugee Service | $10,000 |
| Masjid Muhammad | $10,000 |
| Permissible Laughter Media LLC | $9,500 |
| Masjidullah Inc | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k 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
- OOORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +75%
- NKNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $142k · revenue +111%
- CCCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $138k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- ISISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- RSREFUGEES STORIES INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
Asians for Collective Action (ACA) harnesses the strenghts of Asians and Asian Americans to drive systemic change to create a just, healthy, and thriving community for all.
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.…
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) strives to strengthen the Arab community in the Chicago area by building its capacity to be an active agent for positive social change. As a grassroots nonprofit, our strategies include community…
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.
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,…
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
Asian American Art & Culture Initiative is an organization promotes Asian art, culture and history through various programs, such as exhibition, contemporary art work and history/art workshops.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta's mission is to protect and promote the civil and human rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast through policy advocacy, legal services,…
Teaching and introducing Korean language, history, and culture to Houston community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Il Muslim Civic Coalition and the most unlike its peers is Filipino American National Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds VN TEAMWORK ↗
- Who funds BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC ↗
- Who funds Daya Inc ↗
- Who funds AMAANAH REFUGEE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CULTURE OF HEALTH - ADVANCING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds MASJIDULLAH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES STORIES INC ↗
- Who funds IL Muslim Civic Coalition ↗
- Who funds PAKISTANI AMERICAN VOTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL 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.
Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · Houston in Action Network · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Immigration Legal ServicesCollab · Houston in Action · United Way of Greater Houston · Shell USA Company Foundation · Rockwell Fund Inc · National Partnership for New Americans · Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc · National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development · The Methodist Hospital
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 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.
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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