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Community Foundation of East Mississippi
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 providing leadership in response to changing community needs.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $568,551 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $725,391 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $156,840 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $237k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APEX OFFICERS | $67,500 |
| WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER | $65,689 |
| MERIDIAN HOUSING AUTHORITY | $52,500 |
| MERIDIAN LITTLE THEATRE | $51,445 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MS | $42,469 |
| MISSISSIPPI INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE MUS | $35,085 |
| ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WEST AL | $28,145 |
| MISSISSIPPI ORGAN RECOVERY AGENCY | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF EAST MS | $21,801 |
| LAMAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $20,300 |
| MERIDIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI | $20,000 |
| MERIDIAN MUSEUM OF ART | $17,045 |
| MERRIHOPE - MERIDIAN RESTORATIONS | $14,316 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $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 (FY18–23, $193k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +73% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 8 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +75%
- WHWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $227k · revenue +111%
- MOMISSISSIPPI ORGAN RECOVERY AGENCY5× · 2019–2024 · $155k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- NPNEW PLASTICSone grant, 2019 · $164k
- PMPG MEMORIALS PICTURE THIS ON GRANone grant, 2020 · $74k
- MDMENNONITE DISASTER SERVICEone grant, 2019 · $55k
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.
MCIR is an independent nonprofit news organization, tasked with educating and informing the people of Mississippi with in-depth, fact-based, nonpartisan information. MCIR focuses on institutionalized injustice and generational poverty.
The organization's purpose is to exclusively benefit, directly or indirectly, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of the Mississippi School of the Arts.
To publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political, and systemic challenges facing all mississipians and their communities.
The organization provides contract services that are performed by mentally impaired persons. they are assigned miscellaneous work projects by area businesses. the primary purpose is to provide these adults with monetary income and most…
Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity
We remove barriers to opportunity through citizen action so all mississippians can flourish.
Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered and the most unlike its peers is Nafeco Foundation Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 96 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI ORGAN RECOVERY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds R3SM INC ↗
- Who funds LAMAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Meridian Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Meridian Art Association ↗
- Who funds Kemper County Improvement Organization ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN LITTLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds CARE LODGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Meridian Restoration Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUDERDALE OUTREACH & VOL EFFORT ↗
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: Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · The Riley Foundation · The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation · The Hardy Poindexter Graham Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Anderson Regional Medical Center · United Way of East Mississippiinc · Mississippi Food Network Inc · William Robert Baird Charitable Trust · Pinebelt Foundation · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi
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 Community Foundation of East Mississippi 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.