· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| CONVENTION DISPLAY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| BILOXI MAIN STREET | $50,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | $50,000 |
| GULF COAST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $50,000 |
| ELIJAH'S CLOSET | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
137 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. 137 of the 249 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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