· Public charity
4-County Foundation Inc
The mission of 4-county foundation, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $316,995 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $377,684 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,689 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $177k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLDEN TRIANGLE THEATER | $20,000 |
| LOWNDES COUNTY SUPERVISORS VOLUNTEE | $10,000 |
| UNA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LOWNDES AND NOXUBEE C | $10,000 |
| THE MISSION INC | $10,000 |
| PRAIRIE DARROCOTT FIRE AND RESCUE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| PHEBA AREA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN | $10,000 |
| CHOCTAW COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF MATHISTON POLICE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| CITY OF STARKVILLE MISSISSIPPI | $10,000 |
| THE CREATE FOUNDATION FORGE FOUNDA | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL CLAY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTM | $10,000 |
| BYWY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $9,998 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,900 |
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 (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +207% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k 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
- TMTHE MISSION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +207%
- TDTHE DREAM CENTER OF COLUMBUS INC3× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +687%
- GTGOLDEN TRIANGLE THEATRE3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +239%
Funded once
- WCWEBSTER COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORSone grant, 2019 · $13k
- LCLIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +186%
- GTGolden Triangle Outdoors Incone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -69%
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.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
An inter-denominational school that exists to serve all in the okeechobee area by providing an education that is christ-centered, bible-based, and academically distinguished.
To provide Christian education to the community in which we reside. To educate students while teaching them the Word of God.
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
The mission of the center is to enrich the lives of individuals by providing christian education, christian counseling,child care and benevolent services.
To provide daycare, Christian education and training for students
The covenant school of jacksonville, inc., is dedicated to offering a quality christian education for kindergarten through 12th grade students in jacksonville, florida.
To provide a biblically based k-8 school which partners with a community of likeminded families to foster moral and academic excellence, equipping our children to serve god, each other, and the community at large.
Our mission is to bear witness to the mercies of christ by providing a high-quality, christian education to shreveport families, regardless of income.
The organization provides quality care and education to 50 children in macon county and surrounding areas
To serve children in crisis throughout mississippi by providing strong, christian homes to every child who lives on campus while ensuring that each child is loved unconditionally and has their physical, spiritual, and emotional needs met.
Educational services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden Triangle Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Mennonite Service Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 139 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 THE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM CENTER OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN TRIANGLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRANK P PHILLIPS MEMORIAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICES PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Golden Triangle Outdoors Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE REGION ↗
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: International Paper Company Foundation · United Way of the Golden Triangle Region · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization 4-County 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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