How much does Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi give?

Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi reported 96 itemized grants totaling $4,395,697, out of $4,691,016 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 115 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Health (25%), Education (22%).

Who are Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Women and Children Health Initiatives ($3.2M), Longview Point Bapt Church ($2.6M), University of Mississippi Foundation ($1.3M).

Does Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Mississippi Humanities Council Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis.

Where is Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi based?

Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi is based in Hernando, MS.

Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi

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

Hernando, MS · Community foundation

Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi

Connecting people who care with causes that matter by providing resources and leadership to the citizens and nonprofit organizations in primarily an 11-county area of northwest mississippi; providing a flexible, tax-deductible vehicle to meet the needs of donors and recipients.

$4.7M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$962k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$5.8MHealth$5.7MEducation$5.1MHuman Services$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$512kInternational$364kOther$0

02beneath the categories

What the grant descriptions say

Themes read from the grant descriptions, beneath the NTEE codes.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 96 grants below total $4,395,697, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,691,016 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $295,319 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.

Grant-size mix · FY2016–FY2024

FY16

47%

45%

$1.1M

FY17

10%

47%

43%

$1.2M

FY18

23%

33%

38%

$1.9M

FY20

33%

37%

22%

$2.3M

FY21

38%

36%

21%

$4.0M

FY22

24%

44%

31%

$3.2M

FY23

25%

21%

51%

$3.9M

FY24

20%

48%

28%

$4.4M

Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2016, 0% of its dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024, 28%. Each bar is that year’s mix, not its total.

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$49M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LONGVIEW POINT BAPT CHURCH	$962,000
WOMENS AND CHILDRENS HEALTH	$288,750
OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION	$210,000
BOSS LADY ECON PLAN DEV WRKFC	$179,830
ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL	$150,000
BB KING MUSEUM	$129,200
EMMANUAL UNITED METHODIST CH	$117,000
UNIVERSITY OF MS FDN	$115,909
WARRIORS CENTER	$105,000
THE ARC NW MS	$104,250
BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE DALLAS F	$100,000
THE UMMC FUND	$95,000
ROLLING FORK RISING	$75,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTHIER AM	$72,000
DELTA HEALTH CENTER INC	$67,500

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $753k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 85% 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

The hardship those neighborhoods carry, beyond income:

Adults without health insurance:reaches 16.1% in some neighborhoods (typically 10.1%)(CDC, modeled)
Food access:3 of 33 neighborhoods are USDA-designated food deserts(USDA, 2019)

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$20M · 134 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

134 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of its 126 multi-year relationships, 33 repeat the same amount every year (12% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

134

Total granted

$20M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+9%

Still filing today

63%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $927k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionReligionOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +68%
Teach for America Inc
5× · 2018–2024 · $604k · revenue +1%
AE
Aaron E Henry Community Health Services Center Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $524k · revenue +44%

Funded once

TO
The Original Project Team Foundation Inc
one grant, 2021 · $207k · revenue -5% · 86% of their budget
EC
EPISCOPAL CHURCH DIOCESE OF MISS
one grant, 2019 · $101k
ES
EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC
one grant, 2023 · $69k · revenue -8%

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.

Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; a standing commitment is inferred from a level payment pattern.

What its grantees report

Each stalk is one grantee, graded by how far its own reporting goes: an activity counted, a stated aim, or a change shown.

Of 35 organizations, 4 show a change. The rest report activities or aims.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

How this is measured

Read from 35 of the 49 organizations it funds across these 5 areas (the most heavily funded), in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One grantee funded repeatedly and one funded once, each traced through its own filings.

Family Biz Builder

Conviction

Early conviction, steady compounding community impact

Community Foundation of Northwest made two grants to Family Biz Builder between 2020 and 2024, totaling $40,211 and at peak representing 40% of the organization's budget, a meaningful early commitment to a Tunica County nonprofit serving low-income youth through tennis, character development, and college-and-career readiness. Alongside that support, revenue has grown at a 10% CAGR and is up 57% in total, while the program has scaled from 65 participants in 2020 to 93 in 2025.

2× · 2020–2024

Funded

$40k

Granted in total

40%

Peak share of budget

+57%

Their revenue since

THE GRACE PLACE INC

Funded once · graduated

One-time bet, remarkable post-grant graduation

Community Foundation of Northwest made a single $20,000 grant to Grace Place Inc. in 2020, representing 9% of their budget at the time, in the earliest years of this Batesville, MS nonprofit founded in 2017. In the years since, Grace Place's revenue has grown 120% at a 22% CAGR, as the organization expanded to deliver more than 8,000 acts of assistance in a single fiscal year, food boxes, clothing, furniture, and addiction recovery groups, while also serving more than 50 students through its Genesis Kids afterschool program and reaching approximately 140 senior citizens across four Panola County apartment complexes with twice-monthly food deliveries.

At first grant · 2020

$215k

their revenue

$20k= 9% of it

once

Latest filing · 2025

$457k+113%

grown on its own, no further grants

2024 · what they did next

The Benevolence Center provided more than 8,000 acts of assistance including food boxes, clothing, furniture, and recovery groups for people struggling with addictions.

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How this is measured

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source. We date what happened after a grant and do not claim the grant caused it.

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.

Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy

Health

Mission Mississippi

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.

Civil Rights

Our Mississippi Foundation

Community Improvement

Mississippi Delta Council F0R Workers Opportunities Inc

Employment and training agency- help displaced migrant and seasonal farmworkers enter unsubsidized employment, coupled with the assistance of supportive services and farm ownership training

Employment

Mississippi Christian Family Services Inc

To provide rehabilitative social services to the distressed, handicapped and underprivileged.

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Revitalize Mississippi Inc

Community Improvement

Delta Streets Ministries Inc

Delta streets ministries, inc. (dba delta streets academy) will equip young men for today and the future by providing a holistic education that promotes the highest achievement in academics and athletics, a biblical worldview, and…

Religion

East Mississippi Development Corporation Meridian Community College

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Delta Council

Improvement of the business conditions of agriculture and trade in the mississippi delta communities and in industrial development in the mississippi delta

—

Mississippi Prosperity Foundation Inc

Philanthropy

Delta Health Alliance Inc

In alliance with Mississippi universities and other related non-profit entities, Delta Health Alliance, Inc.'s mission is to advocate, develop, and implement programs to improve the healthcare and educational needs of the most depressed…

Health

Delta Compass

The mission of the Washington County Work Ready Association is to promote, support, and provide innovative programs that provide workforce development skill training for high demand and high growth industry sectors to residents of…

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy; the most unlike its peers is Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

176 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. 176 of the 272 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)

166/176

Grantees still filing

110/176

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$14,706,076Education$3,756,152Human Services$1,156,556Health$1,119,381Arts & Culture$790,712Religion$539,108Employment$284,317

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

7 internal · 6 shared anchors

How its grantees work together

Warriors Center residents partner with Desoto Dream Center to provide meals, clothing, and care to families experiencing poverty and homelessness across Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. It is one of 7 direct ties among 56 of its grantees, who also cluster around 6 shared regional anchors.

Inferred: ties are read by a model from news and organization websites, and each links to its source.

Grantees connected

Grantee↔grantee ties

Shared anchors (2+ grantees)

193

External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations; shared anchors pull toward the center

min. connectionstheme34 shown · 5 ties

grantee external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations, or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

↔
explicit Joint program
↔
explicit Shared facility
↔
explicit Joint program
↔
explicit Affiliation
↔
implied Affiliation

Anchors several grantees share

2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees

Joint program 123Affiliation 36Funding 16Coalition 12Referral network 9Shared facility 4

How this is measured

Ties are extracted by a model from news and organization websites, not from tax filings, so they are directional rather than exhaustive. Corroborated ties were named independently by both organizations.

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.

Community Foundation for MississippiMS44.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Maddox Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Women's Foundation of Mississippi · Mississippi Food Network Inc · Phil Hardin Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Ergon Foundation Inc · Save The Children Federation Inc · Cadence Bank Foundation

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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