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Ecm Foundation

The foundation awards scholarships for higher education to children of employees of mississippi's various electric cooperatives, certain participants in the electric cooperatives of mississippi youth tour program and to electrical engineering candidates located in rural electric service areas in mississippi.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$80kHealth$22kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $130,050 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $110,050 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.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMAN CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SOUTH CAROLINA COOPERATIVES CARE$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COOPERATIVE FAMILY FUND: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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 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.

1
Ge Employee Relief Fund

The ge employee relief fund will be primarily engaged in providing short-term emergency assistance for ge employees impacted by disasters.

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2
Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina

To assist members of the corporation in providing electric energy to consumers in the members' service areas.

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3
South Central Power Company

South central power company exists to add value to the lives of our members by delivering safe and dependable service.

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4
Kentucky Bankers Relief Fund Company

Distribute contributions to 501(c)(3) organizations who are directly responding to natural or man-made disasters or to individuals who have suffered catastrophic loss because of such disasters.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Cotton Electric Charitable Foundation

Charitable donations

Philanthropy
6
Southwest Mississippi Electric Power Association

Member owned electric cooperative.

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7
Claiborne Electric Cooperative Inc

The wholesale purchase, distribution, and retail sale of electricity to approximately 18,512 rural members.

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8
Cox Employee Relief Fund Inc

None.

Human Services
9
Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association

To provide electric services to approximately 15,000 members/owners in a ten county area of Southern Illinois since its founding in 1938.

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10
Superior Energy Services Catastrophic Relief Fund

Charitable grants were made to qualifying individuals to relieve the hardship and financial difficulty caused by the devastating effects of fires personal tragedies and catastrophic events

Human Services
11
Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives

The Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives is a statewide association created in 1942 and voluntarily supported by Oklahoma's non-profit electric cooperatives for the purpose to collectively perform services which would not be…

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12
Baldwin County Electric Membership Corporation

Rural electric cooperative serving baldwin and monroe counties in alabama.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Connections Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Mississippi Medical Center Research Development Foundation. 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

8 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH DELTA PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $30,000 · OtherSOUTH DELTA PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES INC: $30,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES INCBURN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,000 · OtherBURN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCHUMAN CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHUMAN CONNECTIONS …SOUTH CAROLINA COOPERATIVES CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSOUTH CAROLINA COO…COOPERATIVE FAMILY FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOOPERATI…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthUNIVERSIT…KENTUCKY RURAL ELECTRIC DISASTER FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKENTUCKY …
Other$72,000Public Safety & Disaster$20,000Human Services$10,000Health$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH DELTA PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBURN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FAMILY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA COOPERATIVES CARE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKENTUCKY RURAL ELECTRIC DISASTER FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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