· Private foundation
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $946k
- $250k+4 grants · $6.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH SUNFLOWER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| PINEBELT FOUNDATION | $534,630 |
| PINEBELT FOUNDATION | $443,872 |
| YAZOO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $443,872 |
| PROJECT FIT AMERICA | $227,031 |
| NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL | $160,002 |
| HOUSTON CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTER | $136,225 |
| SOUTH PANOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $116,974 |
| SOUTH SUNFLOWER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $109,600 |
| NORTH PIKE CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTER | $96,345 |
| NH PILATE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| PETAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISITAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 76% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MS; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +76% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- MWMISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FISHERIES AND PARKS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $4.4M · revenue +109% · 58% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +143%
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +76%
Funded once
MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INCone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue -15%- SOSTARKVILLE OKTIBBEHA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $900k
- BMBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $648k · revenue -12%
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.
The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…
To provide financial support to missouri southern state university from donations from the public for scholarships, awards to students, departmental support, cultural activities, general college support and faculty development.
Mississippi state university foundation, inc. is a non-profit organization that assists mississippi state university in accomplishing its goals and mission by cultivating and soliciting private support and ensuring stewardship for all…
Administer and operate a school k-3 through 12
The organization provides funding for medical research, educational programs for physicians and others as well as educational assistance for medical students. in addition, the organization provides grants to medical professionals whose…
The foundation was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.
The montclair state university foundation ("the foundation") was established to encourage and support the growth and development of montclair state university through fundraising activities that help further the educational, experiential,…
The community foundation is a philanthropic organization that manages charitable funds with a broad base of donors to benefit the areas of western tennessee, eastern arkansas, and northern mississippi. since 1969, the community foundation…
The community foundation of east mississippi is a public charity dedicated to maintaining, improving and enriching the quality of life in east mississippi by supporting worthy causes, providing philanthropic services, and encouraging and…
The foundation's purpose is to promote, encourage, and assist in all forms of education and research in the MS gulf coast community college's districts, campuses, and activities.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pinebelt Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Clinton Christian Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 209 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SOUTH SUNFLOWER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FISHERIES AND PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FIT AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST MS CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Ergon Foundation Inc · Phil Hardin Foundation · Butler Snow O'Mara Stevens & Cannada Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Maddox Foundation · Century Club Charities Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Southern Company Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation 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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