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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$137k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Community Improvement$317kCivil Rights$254kPublic Benefit$250kHuman Services$160kPhilanthropy$112kInternational$30kReligion$28kArts & Culture$20k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $630,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $706,925 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $76,925 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

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
RecipientAmount
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
VN TeamWork Inc$25,000
BP-SOS Houston$25,000
IMAN Atlanta$15,000
M-AAA (CHAT)$10,000
Amaanah Refugee Service$10,000
Masjid Muhammad$10,000
Daya Inc$10,000
Permissible Laughter Media LLC$9,500
Masjidullah Inc$7,500
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BP-SOS Houston: $25k → 16%Boat People SOS: $24k → 6%Boat People SOS: $23k → 6%Boat People SOS: $18k → 6%BP-SOS Houston: $23k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $43k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $26k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $25k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $23k → 16%Chinese Community Center Inc: $23k → 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

WA
IL
NY
IN
PA
MO
VA
DC
TX
FL
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$849k · 9 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

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

+47%
+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.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementCivil RightsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • OO
    ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON
    5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +75%
  • NK
    NATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $142k · revenue +111%
  • CC
    CHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $138k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • IS
    ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • RS
    REFUGEES STORIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +57%
  • MT
    Mustino Times Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
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
Asian American Advocacy Alliance
Community Improvement
2
Asians for Collective Action

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.

Public Benefit
3
Vietnamese American Cultural Alliance
Arts & Culture
4
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
5
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
6
Asian American Art & Culture Initiative

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Asian American Resource Center Inc

To improve the health and well-being of Asians and Asian Americans in Central Texas through education advocacy and support. A new contracted outreach program with Central Health began to conduct community outreach for the Medical Access…

Recreation & Sports
8
Arab American Action Network

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…

Youth Development
9
Asian Law Caucus

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…

Crime & Legal
10
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

—
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Il Muslim Civic Coalition; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $244,525 · OtherORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERI…ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL CO…+5 more: $41,025 · Other+5 moreNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $142,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN …Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice: $112,000 · Civil RightsEvery Voice Texas dba Asi…+1 more: $5,750 · Civil RightsCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $138,476 · Human ServicesCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER…BOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $111,750 · Human ServicesBOAT PEOPLE SOS INCVN TEAMWORK: $111,750 · Community ImprovementVN TEAMWORKDaya Inc: $30,000 · Community ImprovementDaya IncCULTURE OF HEALTH - ADVANCING TOGETHER: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCULTURE OF HEALTH…INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $15,000 · Community ImprovementINNER-CITY MUSLIM…NEO Philanthropy Inc: $112,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philant…REFUGEES STORIES INC: $6,500 · Public BenefitREFUGEES ST…AMAANAH REFUGEE SERVICE: $30,000 · InternationalMid-America Arts Alliance: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFILIPINO AMERICAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,500 · Arts & CultureMASJIDULLAH INCORPORATED: $7,500 · ReligionIL Muslim Civic Coalition: $6,000 · Religion
Other$305,550Civil Rights$259,750Human Services$250,226Community Improvement$176,750Public Benefit$118,500International$30,000Arts & Culture$15,500Religion$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORGANIZATION OF CHINESE AMERICANS OF GREATER HOUSTON: $244,525 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $142,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCHINESE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $138,476 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEvery Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice: $112,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $112,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVN TEAMWORK: $111,750 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBOAT PEOPLE SOS INC: $111,750 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetDaya Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMAANAH REFUGEE SERVICE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCULTURE OF HEALTH - ADVANCING TOGETHER: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEES STORIES INC: $6,500 over 1y, 21% 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.

Houston Endowment IncHouston in Action Net…Greater Houston Commu…Houston Immigration L…Houston in ActionUnited Way of Greater…Shell USA Company Fou…Rockwell Fund IncNational Partnership …Asian Americans Advan…National Coalition fo…The Methodist Hospital
Houston Endowment IncTX23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Emgage Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Emgage Foundation Inc 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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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