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Foundation for the Mid South Inc

The foundation for the mid south invests in people and strategies that build philanthropy and promote racial, social and economic equity in arkansas, louisiana and mississippi.

$427k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$955kEmployment$608kCommunity Improvement$563kPublic Benefit$435kCivil Rights$238kHuman Services$80kYouth Development$60kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $408,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $426,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,500 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

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSISSIPPI ENGAGED$200,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS$25,000
INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MINORITY HEALTH$25,000
ONE VOICE INC$25,000
TOUGALOO COLLEGE$18,000
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH$15,000
ONE VOICE INC (MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS$15,000
ONE VOICE (MISSISSIPPI STATE CONFERENCE OF THE NAACP)$10,000
SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES$10,000
MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY FINANCIAL ACCESS COALITION$10,000
MISSISSIPPI BLACK WOMEN'S ROUNDTABLE$10,000
MISSISSIPPI BLACK WOMEN'S ROUNDTABLE$10,000
MISSISSIPPI BLACK WOMEN'S ROUNDTABLE$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE - WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION OF BILOXI: $15k → 19%CompuRecycling Inc: $10k → 27%MISSISSIPPI URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 23%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $18k → 23%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $10k → 23%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $10k → 23%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 22 repeat orgs$847k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
30

Total granted

$2.2M
$564k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+2%

Still filing today

86%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MC
    MISSISSIPPI COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $195k · revenue +32%
  • BL
    BOSS LADY ECONOMIC PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT WORKFORCE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $166k · revenue +64% · 52% of their budget
  • SD
    SOUTH DELTA PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
    3× · 2017–2019 · $122k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • MV
    MISSISSIPPI VOTES
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue -36%
  • MU
    MISSISSIPPI URBAN LEAGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +2%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC
    one grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue -59%
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.

1
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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2
Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy
Health
3
North Missindustrial Development a

Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.

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4
Working Together Mississippi

Seeking to build relationships with diverse institutions around the state to build the power to effect political change in a non-partisan way while strengthening the institutions we engage with to help execute their institution's mission…

Education
5
Economic Development Center of Washington County Inc

To promote and assist in economic development, job creation and job training for washington county, ms and surrounding areas. to promote and assist existing businesses in the area.

Community Improvement
6
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc

The foundation's purpose is to promote, encourage, and assist in all forms of education and research in the MS gulf coast community college's districts, campuses, and activities.

Education
7
Jackson State University Development Foundation Inc

To provide financial support to the JSU academic programs, student scholarships as well as general university support.

Education
8
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
9
Jackson County Economic Development Foundation Inc

Improving the economic development opportunities of jackson county, mississippi by unifying planning, economic & industrial development, and marketing activities in the county.

Community Improvement
10
East Mississippi Development Corporation Meridian Community College
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11
Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.

—
12
Empower Mississippi

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Engaged; the most unlike its peers is The Andrew Goodman 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

47 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. 47 of the 57 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
27/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETTER SCHOOLS BETTER JOBS: $674,775 · OtherBETTER SCHOOLS BETTER JOBSSOUTH DELTA PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $122,000 · OtherSOUTH DELTA PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTHOLMES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · OtherHINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $57,000 · OtherCOPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · OtherCENTER FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $65,000 · Other+25 more: $497,995 · Other+25 moreMISSISSIPPI ENGAGED: $200,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI ENGAGEDMISSISSIPPI COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $195,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI COALITION ON B…THE ALLUVIAL COLLECTIVE: $147,289 · Civil RightsTHE ALLUVIAL COLLECTIVEMISSISSIPPI VOTES: $90,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI VOTESMEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $38,000 · Civil Rights+2 morePEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMEN: $75,000 · EducationMISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $47,581 · EducationNOVA Workforce Institute of Northeast Louisiana In: $20,000 · EducationMillsaps College: $18,000 · EducationTougaloo College: $18,000 · EducationMID-SOUTH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBOSS LADY ECONOMIC PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT WORKFORCE: $166,400 · EmploymentMISSISSIPPI DELTA COUNCIL F0R WORKERS OPPORTUNITIES INC: $20,000 · EmploymentOne Voice: $150,000 · Public BenefitMISSISSIPPI URBAN LEAGUE: $50,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $37,500 · Human ServicesCompuRecycling Center Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesMOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMISSISSIPPI ENERGY INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Community ImprovementHigher Purpose Hub: $20,000 · Community ImprovementMISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY FINANCIAL ACCESS COALITION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,536,770Civil Rights$695,289Education$194,581Employment$186,400Public Benefit$150,000Human Services$132,500Community Improvement$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETTER SCHOOLS BETTER JOBS: $674,775 over 2y, 100% of budgetMISSISSIPPI ENGAGED: $200,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $195,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetBOSS LADY ECONOMIC PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT WORKFORCE: $166,400 over 3y, 52% of budgetOne Voice: $150,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ALLUVIAL COLLECTIVE: $147,289 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSOUTH DELTA PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $122,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES: $90,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMEN: $75,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHOLMES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMISSISSIPPI ENERGY INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetMISSISSIPPI URBAN LEAGUE: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $47,581 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetJONES COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $46,091 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetInstitute for the Advancement of Minority Health: $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMississippi Action For Community Education Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES: $37,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $31,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHigher Purpose Hub: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNOVA Workforce Institute of Northeast Louisiana In: $20,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetMillsaps College: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeshoba Youth Coalition Leadership Program: $18,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetMISSION MISSISSIPPI: $18,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTougaloo College: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-SOUTH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST ARKANSAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST MARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJACKSON MEDICAL MALL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIAJE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWarren-Washington-Issaquena-Sharkey Community Action Agency: $8,199 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJackson MS Chapter of The Links Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RANKIN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

WK Kellogg FoundationCommunity Foundation …Mississippi Power Fou…Amalgamated Charitabl…Mississippi Community…Jessie Smith Noyes Fo…Southern Poverty Law …NEO Philanthropy IncBvm Capacity Building…Rsf Social Finance Inc2nd Chance MsThe David and Lucile …
WK Kellogg FoundationMI31.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WK Kellogg Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Mississippi Community College Foundation · Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation · Southern Poverty Law Center Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · 2nd Chance Ms · The David and Lucile Packard 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 Foundation for the Mid South Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for the Mid South Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Foundation for the Mid South Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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