· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| CHRIST COVENANT SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MS BLOOD SERVICES | $5,000 |
| NEW STAGE THEATER | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| ISSA CHARTIES SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MS FOOD NETWORK | $5,000 |
| STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERV | $4,000 |
| WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| NORTH MS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| GATEWAY RESCUE MISSION | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL MS | $3,000 |
| QUIET WATERS MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 MSgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +26%
- PCPARKPLACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURIED TREASURES HOME INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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