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2nd Chance Ms

2ND CHANCE MS will raise awareness and funds for adult education and work skills training.

$85k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through 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 2021.

Education$233k
02FY2021 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $81,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $85,468 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,218 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$538k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JONES JUNIOR COLLEGE$25,000
MISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$18,750
COPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$15,000
ITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$12,500
EAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%ITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $13k → 13%JONES JUNIOR COLLEGE: $25k → 18%HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $8k → 23%MERIDIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $21k → 24%CO-LIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $18k → 26%EAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 28%MISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $19k → 32%COAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30k → 36%ITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $13k → 13%CO-LIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $18k → 26%EAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 28%COPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 26%EAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 28%CO-LIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $11k → 26%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.
03Its 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
Southwest Mississippi Community College Foundation Inc

The foundation is an auxilary organization of southwest ms community college and administers scholarships to both students and faculty members and raises funds to supplement different areas of the entire college.

Education
2
Wilson Community College Foundation Inc

Provide scholarships, grants and awards for students and professional development for faculty and staff at wilson community college

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3
Snead State Community College Foundation
International
4
Colorado Northwestern Community College Foundation

Provide funding for scholarships and improvement projects for colorado northwestern community college

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5
Beaufort County Community College Foundation Inc

Provides scholarships for beaufort county community college students.

Education
6
North Central State College Foundation

The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.

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7
Alabama Southern Community College Foundation

The Alabama Southern Foundation provides support to the local community college for various events and as requested for student support. The student body is primarily from moderate to low income and many will not have access to technology…

Education
8
Wallace Community College-Sparks Campus Foundation

Scholarships for wallace community college students

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9
Madisonville College Foundation
Education
10
Friends of Mchenry County College Foundation

Together with our community we build financial support for student learning and success.

Education
11
Iowa Western Community College Foundation

None

Education
12
Marshalltown Community College Foundatio

Provide funds for scholarships for worthy and needy students to help finance college education and to support the departments of liberal, fine arts, athletic, social science and humanities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Delta Community College Development Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lafayette County Literacy Council. 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

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,625 · OtherCOPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $40,000 · OtherEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGECOAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $29,682 · OtherCOAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGEJONES COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherJONES COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATIONMeridian Community College Foundation: $21,250 · OtherMeridian Community College FoundationITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · OtherITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCItawamba Community College: $12,500 · OtherItawamba Community CollegeHINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherMISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $18,750 · EducationMISSISSIP…NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 · Philanthropy
Other$209,057Education$18,750Philanthropy$5,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $60,625 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetJONES COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $18,750 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Mississippi Community…Women's Foundation of…Dollar General Litera…The Bower FoundationFoundation for the Mi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mississippi Community College FoundationMS22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mississippi Community College Foundation · Women's Foundation of Mississippi · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · The Bower Foundation · Foundation for the Mid South 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 2nd Chance Ms funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 2nd Chance Ms. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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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
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to 2nd Chance Ms?

    Find your warmest path to 2nd Chance Ms 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 10 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $118k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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