· Private foundation
C Spire Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of Russell C Davis Planetarium | $100,000 |
| Base Camp Academy | $75,000 |
| Pinola Community Center | $50,000 |
| Eudora Welty Foundation | $40,000 |
| Bean Path | $30,000 |
| Mississippi Childrens Museum | $26,328 |
| American Red Cross | $25,000 |
| Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi | $25,000 |
| Community Foundation for Mississippi | $20,000 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $15,000 |
| Jackson State University | $15,000 |
| Mississippi State University | $15,000 |
| Troy University Foundation | $15,000 |
| University of MS Foundation | $15,000 |
| Alcorn State University Foundation | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +41%
- MCMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $151k · revenue +31%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY2× · 2020–2023 · $105k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- MSMississippi State University Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +82%
- OMOle Miss Womens Council for Philanthropyone grant, 2024 · $30k
CLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +5%
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.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.
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 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.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
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…
Mississippi college is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. founded in 1826, mississippi college is the oldest…
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political, and systemic challenges facing all mississipians and their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 108 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 BASE CAMP CODING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Eudora Welty Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY ↗
- Who funds BEAN PATH ↗
- Who funds Jackson State University Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WE WILL GO ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds TROY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tougaloo College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
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 · 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
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 C Spire 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.