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Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of DORSEY J BAREFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| CHRIST COVENANT SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| NEW STAGE THEATER | $5,000 |
| MS BLOOD SERVICES | $5,000 |
| MS FOOD NETWORK | $5,000 |
| ISSA CHARTIES SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERV | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| NORTH MS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| QUIET WATERS MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL MS | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your 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.
26 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- RTREFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +25%
- TWTHE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +84%
- SCSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR PREGNANCY CHOICESEone grant, 2022 · $4k
- HCHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION OF NORTH MSone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- PCPARKPLACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $2k
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…
To proclaim the truth of god's word.
Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.
The purpose of the baptist missionary association theological seminary is to provide accredited undergraduate and graduate theological education for equipping individuals for christian service and leadership roles.
Baptist health system, inc. as an expression of our christian mission, seeks to serve many people by adopting a continuum of professional health care, which includes, but not limited to senior housing, long and short term nursing and…
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Mid-america reformed seminary seeks to serve the church by preparing students for gospel ministry as pastors, or those whose service to the church may be enhanced by theological education.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
The woman's missionary union foundation was organized for the purpose of motivating and facilitating the making of gifts, donations, and benefactions for the advancement, promotion and maintenance of woman's missionary union and the…
Mount carmel ministries is a place of rest, renewal, and recreation where people experience jesus.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care Foundation of North Ms and the most unlike its peers is Larry Black Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 36 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 REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Craftsmans Guild of Mississippi Inc ↗
- Who funds BENTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURIED TREASURES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LARRY BLACK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION OF NORTH MS ↗
- Who funds BUT GOD MINISTRIES ↗
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: Ergon Foundation Inc · The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Feild Co-Operative Association · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust 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.
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