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.

Community Foundation of East Mississippi

Community Foundation of East Mississippi at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

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.

$725k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$68k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$687kEducation$508kReligion$481kHousing & Shelter$375kPhilanthropy$356kYouth Development$291kPublic Safety & Disaster$197kOther$0

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 24 grants below total $568,551, the rows itemized in this filing. The $725,391 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,840 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $65k
$10k–50k11 grants · $266k
$50k–250k4 grants · $237k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.8M · 39 repeat orgs$907k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$746k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%

+15%

Still filing today

41%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI
8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +75%
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WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $227k · revenue +111%
MO
MISSISSIPPI ORGAN RECOVERY AGENCY
5× · 2019–2024 · $155k · revenue +73%

Funded once

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NEW PLASTICS
one grant, 2019 · $164k
PM
PG MEMORIALS PICTURE THIS ON GRAN
one grant, 2020 · $74k
MD
MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE
one grant, 2019 · $55k

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.

04Its field

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.

Our Mississippi Foundation

Community Improvement

East Mississippi Development Corporation Meridian Community College

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Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Mississippi School of the Arts Foundation Inc

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.

Education

Mississippi Prosperity Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Mississippi Journalism and Education Group

To publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political, and systemic challenges facing all mississipians and their communities.

Arts & Culture

Empower Mississippi

We remove barriers to opportunity through citizen action so all mississippians can flourish.

Health

Mississippi County Arkansas Economic Opportunity Commission Inc

Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity

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Mississippi Industries for the Developmentally Dis

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…

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North Missindustrial Development a

Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.

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Revitalize Mississippi Inc

Community Improvement

Mississippi State Medical Association Foundation Inc

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered; 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.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/31

Grantees still filing

18/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,556,378Arts & Culture$310,272Youth Development$283,939Human Services$234,821Health$161,500Philanthropy$143,763Education$119,530

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.

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.

Mississippi Power Foundation IncMS33.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of East Mississippi funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of East Mississippi. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home