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Fountain Family Foundation

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.

$431k
Granted FY2022
29
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$125kHuman Services$80kReligion$45kHealth$37kCommunity Improvement$20kArts & Culture$16kAnimals$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $356,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $430,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k18 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $174k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES$60,000
HINDS COMM COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FND$55,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY$32,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MS$32,500
WILLOWOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF MS MEDICAL CENTER$18,500
PINELAKE CHURCH$15,000
GRACE CITY CHURCH$15,000
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$15,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - RAYMOND$15,000
BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
YMCA$5,000
COPIAH ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN$5,000
BURIED TREASURES HOME, INC$5,000
02Your field

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.

1
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
2
Sherwood & Myrtie Foster's Home for Children

To provide child care and foster care child placement

3
Micah House Corporation

Providing shelter, food, clothing & support for homeless families

Housing & Shelter
4
Skeels Christian School

The school is committed to making disciples who love god completely and who radically impact the lives of others in the world.

5
Family Care Center of Catawba Valley Inc

The organization serves homeless families with dependent children through an emergency and transitional residential program. the center offers physical, emotional, social and educational services to assist families in the transition to…

Human Services
6
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center

Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.

Crime & Legal
7
Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.

8
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
9
Shelterwell Inc

Shelterwell fosters a spirit of connected community, centered on the belief that housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
10
Suffolk Christian Academy

Suffolk christian academy prepares its diverse student body through rigorous, biblically-based academics to excel and to impact the world for the glory of god.

Unclassified
11
Morning Star Christian School

Private school providing students with christ centered education.

Education
12
Lutheran Properties Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Starkville Area Arts Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HINDS COMM COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FND — $55,000 · OtherHINDS COMM COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FNDMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY — $32,500 · OtherMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI — $32,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPIWILLOWOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $20,000 · OtherWILLOWOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTERUNIVERSITY OF MS MEDICAL CENTER — $18,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MS MEDICAL CENTERGRACE CITY CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherGRACE CITY CHURCHPINELAKE CHURCH INC — $15,000 · OtherPINELAKE CHURCH INCFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - RAYMOND — $15,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - RAYMONDBOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $10,000 · Other+9 more — $30,000 · Other+9 moreSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SER…PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 · Human ServicesPALMER HOME FOR CHILDR…OPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOESTRING I…MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $15,000 · Arts & CultureSTARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL — $800 · Arts & CultureFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationHARBOR DAY SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL — $5,000 · HealthTHE LILY PAD FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthBURIED TREASURES HOME INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalMISSISSIPPI ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE — $5,000 · Animals
Other$243,500Human Services$70,000Arts & Culture$15,800Education$10,000Health$7,500Crime & Legal$5,000Animals$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SHOESTRING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARBOR DAY SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMISSISSIPPI ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LILY PAD FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR OF HOPE MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARKVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL — $800 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Ergon Foundation IncMS24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Regions Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Inc · His Way Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Walker Foundation · The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $454k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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