· Community foundation
Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc
The gulf coast community foundation is a public charity dedicated to the progressive development of worthy causes, providing donor services, and promoting and providing leadership in response to changing community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 71 grants below total $3,507,128 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,582,990 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,862 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $171k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $539k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $955k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BACK BAY MISSION | $1,519,489 |
| PEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $322,168 |
| PASCAGOULA - GAUTIER SCHOOL DISTRICT | $234,100 |
| UNITED WAY FOR JACKSON & GEORGE COUNTIES | $102,500 |
| BEAU RIVAGE RESORT & CASINO | $95,291 |
| FORREST COUNTY AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL | $77,425 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON CO | $75,000 |
| CASA OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI | $64,796 |
| NEWTON COUNTY SCHOOLS | $55,100 |
| LEVY PREMIUM FOODSERVICE LP DBA LEVY CONVENTION CENTERS | $51,103 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $50,000 |
| CONVENTION DISPLAY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| GULF COAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $50,000 |
| BILOXI MAIN STREET | $50,000 |
| ELIJAH'S CLOSET | $40,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $555k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 94% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- BBBACK BAY MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +97% · 43% of their budget
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST7× · 2017–2024 · $931k · revenue +147%
- LMLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER4× · 2019–2022 · $213k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- LBLONG BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $204k
- PCPERRY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $101k
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL AREA INCone grant, 2023 · $82k · revenue -61%
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.
Fishing community advocacy
To organize, fund and implement educational and informational programs aimed to enhance professional and leadership development for businesses and leadership development for current and future community leaders on the mississippi gulf…
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.
Provide shelter for homeless animals and adopt out to people of the area.
The organization provides family centered, community oriented and comprehensive health services to the people in mound bayou, ms and the surrounding area.
To provide affordable, safe and dignified housing opportunities and services to low and moderate income individuals and families on the mississippi gulf coast.
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…
Our mission is to assist the most under-served, vulnerable and low-income communities of the mississippi gulf coast with educational resources and immigration legal services that are affordable and impactful.
To provide a broad spectrum of programs and program services to meet the needs of mississippi children and adults with disabilities, thus enabling them to achieve maximum independence and gain the greatest quility of life.
To create a community of hospitality by offering refuge and restoration on the mississippi gulf coast.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pirate Excellence Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
137 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. 137 of the 249 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BACK BAY MISSION ↗
- Who funds HATTIESBURG AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY I ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Bay-Waveland Area Inc ↗
- Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAUDERDALE COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Hancock County Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OHR-O'KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds GULFPORT MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi ↗
- Who funds MANNA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social and Community Services ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST MAIN STREET CORP BILOXI ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI GULF RESORT CLASSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR JACKSONGEORGE & GREENE COUNTIES MS INC ↗
- Who funds Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
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: Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation · Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · United Way of South Mississippi · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Engelstad Family Foundation · Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation · Pinebelt Foundation · The Burdette Family Foundation · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Cadence Bank 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc 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.