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Billups-Garth Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$129k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Billups-Garth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$13k80%
FY20232$2k50%
FY20224$10k25%
FY20214$5k0%
FY20206$25k83%
FY20192$3k50%
FY20186$16k50%
FY20176$28kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$49kEducation$10kRecreation & Sports$3kScience & Tech$1kHousing & Shelter$1kCommunity Improvement$250Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stephen D Lee Foundation$18,0003n/a
Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation$7,95051%
Prairie Belt Blues Foundation$3,75031%
Mississippi Heritage Trust$2,00011%
Columbus Arts Council$1,36211%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

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About Billups-Garth Foundation

How much does Billups-Garth Foundation give?
Billups-Garth Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $13,200 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Billups-Garth Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Education (10%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
Who are Billups-Garth Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Stephen D Lee Foundation ($18k), Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation ($8k), Prairie Belt Blues Foundation ($4k).
Does Billups-Garth Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Billups-Garth Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Billups-Garth Foundation based?
Billups-Garth Foundation is based in MS.

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 21 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-PF 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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