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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. We are a catalyst for charitable giving…
- $725k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $569k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $67,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Community Foundation of East Mississippi funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $569k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $474k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $509k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $903k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $629k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $972k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $371k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $239k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Housing Authority | $375,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Mississippi Industrial Heritage Mus | $275,950 | 8 | n/a |
| Play by Design | $275,775 | 2 | n/a |
| St Patrick Catholic Church | $273,378 | 7 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of East Mississippi | $247,638 | 8 | 2% |
| Wesley House Community Center Inc | $227,162 | 7 | 5% |
| United Way of East Ms | $212,120 | 8 | n/a |
| New Plastics | $164,068 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency | $155,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mississippi Children's Museum | $149,836 | 6 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meridian Housing Authority | $375,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Mississippi Industrial Heritage Mus | $275,950 | 8 | n/a |
| Play by Design | $275,775 | 2 | n/a |
| St Patrick Catholic Church | $273,378 | 7 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of East Mississippi | $247,638 | 8 | 2% |
| Wesley House Community Center Inc | $227,162 | 7 | 5% |
| United Way of East Ms | $212,120 | 8 | n/a |
| New Plastics | $164,068 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency | $155,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mississippi Children's Museum | $149,836 | 6 | 1% |
| R3sm Inc | $116,728 | 2 | 9% |
| Lamar School Foundation | $101,300 | 5 | 0% |
| Hope Village for Children Inc | $100,200 | 3 | 1% |
| David Bickham | $98,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kemper County Economic Development | $96,366 | 4 | n/a |
| Meridian Community College Foundation | $92,798 | 4 | 2% |
| Mississippi State University Foundation Inc | $85,550 | 4 | 0% |
| Lowes Home Centers | $78,846 | 3 | n/a |
| Pg Memorials Picture This on Gran | $74,401 | 1 | n/a |
| Meridian Art Association | $69,226 | 7 | 9% |
| Community of Hope Inc | $68,040 | 8 | n/a |
| Apex Officers | $67,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of West Alabama | $63,039 | 3 | n/a |
| Kemper County Improvement Organization | $58,000 | 4 | 89% |
| Mennonite Disaster Service | $55,105 | 1 | n/a |
| Meridian Little Theatre | $51,445 | 1 | 12% |
| St Joseph Catholic Church | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Mississippi Inc | $44,444 | 7 | 1% |
| Care Lodge Domestic Violence Shelter Inc | $41,439 | 4 | 1% |
| East Central Planning &N Developmen | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boy Scouts of America | $36,301 | 3 | 0% |
| Meridian Restoration Foundation Inc | $35,697 | 4 | 8% |
| University of Mississippi | $32,900 | 4 | n/a |
| Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center Inc | $32,515 | 2 | 1% |
| Quitman Building | $31,493 | 1 | n/a |
| Lauderdale Outreach & Vol Effort | $28,568 | 2 | 11% |
| Congregation Beth Israel | $27,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Mississippi Emergency Mgt Agency | $25,151 | 2 | n/a |
| Kemper Springs Community Center Inc | $24,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Mississippi State University | $23,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Wg Yates & Sons Construction | $22,666 | 2 | n/a |
| Cooper Concrete Constr | $19,378 | 2 | n/a |
| East Central Community College | $19,300 | 3 | n/a |
| Barber & Sons Plumbing | $19,228 | 2 | n/a |
| Metal Works | $16,178 | 2 | n/a |
| Delta Industries East Ms | $12,673 | 1 | n/a |
| Freedom Rock Christian Fellowship | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Scooba Reunion Incorporated | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tuskegee University | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cathedral of St Francis de Sales | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Hickory | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Montgomery Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mark Davis | $9,191 | 1 | n/a |
| Julia Norman | $9,069 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson State University | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Action for Improvement of Portervil | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Kemper Kiddie Kollege Inc | $7,632 | 1 | 2% |
| Kemper County 4-H | $7,330 | 1 | n/a |
| Meridian Symphony Association Inc | $7,250 | 1 | 2% |
| General Council on Finance & Admins of the United | $7,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Wing Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Environmental Turf Services | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Ms Community Dev and Empowerme | $7,000 | 1 | 56% |
| Andrea Flowers | $6,852 | 1 | n/a |
| Lauderdale Baptist Crisis Center | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Vietnam and All Veterans of Brevard Inc | $6,474 | 1 | n/a |
| Coyote Hills Equine Rescue Inc | $6,400 | 1 | n/a |
| East Mississippi Animal Rescue | $6,400 | 1 | 9% |
| Philadelphia Public School | $6,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Meridian Junior Auxiliary Inc | $6,250 | 1 | 7% |
| Nafeco Foundation Inc | $6,230 | 1 | n/a |
| East Mississippi Community College | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Meridian Coach & Travel | $5,876 | 1 | n/a |
| Keith Boatner | $5,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Neshoba County School District | $5,577 | 1 | n/a |
| Candice Coker | $5,197 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($212k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of East Mississippi supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of East Mississippi with peer funders
About Community Foundation of East Mississippi
- How much does Community Foundation of East Mississippi give?
- Community Foundation of East Mississippi reported 24 itemized grants totaling $568,551, out of $725,391 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Foundation of East Mississippi fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Human Services (14%), Education (11%).
- Who are Community Foundation of East Mississippi's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Meridian Housing Authority ($375k), Mississippi Industrial Heritage Mus ($276k), Play by Design ($276k).
- Does Community Foundation of East Mississippi fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of East Mississippi?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mississippi Power Foundation Inc, The Riley Foundation, The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation of East Mississippi based?
- Community Foundation of East Mississippi is based in MS.
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