Mississippi · Private foundation
C Spire Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $617k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 54
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $364k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations C Spire Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $562k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $830k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $504k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $294k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.4M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $473k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi State University | $1,090,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Base Camp Coding Academy | $225,000 | 3 | 17% |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $167,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mississippi Children's Museum | $151,328 | 6 | 1% |
| Eudora Welty Foundation Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Foundation for Mississippi History | $105,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Jackson State University | $92,500 | 6 | n/a |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $90,714 | 6 | n/a |
| Bean Path | $60,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Pinola Community Center | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget C Spire Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Walker Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation Inc · Phil Hardin Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · WK Kellogg Foundation
How this is measured
About C Spire Foundation
- How much does C Spire Foundation give?
- C Spire Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $616,563 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does C Spire Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Arts & Culture (17%), Health (6%).
- Who are C Spire Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mississippi State University ($1.1M), Base Camp Coding Academy ($225k), University of Mississippi Foundation ($168k).
- Does C Spire Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does C Spire Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as C Spire Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Walker Foundation, Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee.
- Where is C Spire Foundation based?
- C Spire Foundation is based in MS.
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