· Private foundation
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $439k
- $250k+4 grants · $7.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH SUNFLOWER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,300,000 |
| SOUTH SUNFLOWER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| DELTA FRESH FOODS | $561,556 |
| CREATE FOUNDATION INC | $466,272 |
| PROJECT FIT AMERICA | $187,831 |
| HIGHLAND BLUFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $151,559 |
| O'BANNON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| PASCAGOULA HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSOUTH SUNFLOWER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $19M · revenue +55%
- 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%
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 +23%
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.
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.
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…
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 was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.
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 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.
Administer and operate a school k-3 through 12
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 organization exists to develop friends and funds for support of the educational, cultural and service goals of pellissippi state community college. the foundation will assist the entire college in promoting excellence for this…
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 214 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SOUTH SUNFLOWER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FISHERIES AND PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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