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Gv Sonny Montgomery 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $83,350 |
| NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL GUARD ASSOC OF THE US | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL GUARD ASSN OF MS | $10,000 |
| MCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MS | $6,000 |
| CATCH A DREAM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MS ARMED FORCES MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MS NATIONAL GUARD NCO ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| USM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| EAST MS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORP | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF MS VETERANS | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MS COUNCIL OF THE NAVY LEAGUE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 81% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Gv Sonny Montgomery Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- TMTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +2%
- EAENLISTED ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF MISSISSIPPI9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +62%
- MCMeridian Community College Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- MGMSU GV MONTGOMERY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $40k
- SOSOLDIER ON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +77%
- EMEAST MS VETERANS MEMORIAL PARKone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Mississippi state university foundation, inc. is a non-profit organization that assists mississippi state university in accomplishing its goals and mission by cultivating and soliciting private support and ensuring stewardship for all…
To strengthen the university of mississippi through quality programs and services that enhance communications and build mutually beneficial relationships among our alumni, friends, faculty, staff, and students.
The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.
Providing direct and indirect funding for scholarships, facilities, salary supplements, and other support for the university of mississippi department of intercollegiate athletics.
Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi
The Martin Memorial Foundation generates financial support for patient care, education and clinical research for Martin Memorial Health Systems to support its mission: "To provide exceptional health care, hope and compassion to every…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
To promote, encourage, and assist all forms of education, research, and economic development conducted by the fifteen community and junior colleges in the state of mississippi by receiving, soliciting, accepting, and administering funds…
Provide interest-free loans and grants for undergraduate education to children of former, active, and retired commissioned or warrant officers of the seven uniformed services, and to children of active or retired enlisted members of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Mississippi and the most unlike its peers is Trail of Honor. 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 37 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 92 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
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 THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ENLISTED ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Meridian Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAIL OF HONOR ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER ON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES CAPITOL PAGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MISSISSIPPI VETERANS ↗
- Who funds CHOCTAW AREA COUNCIL NO 302 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARMED FORCES MUSEUM FOUNDATION 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: The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation · The Riley Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Ergon Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Gv Sonny Montgomery Foundation 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.
- Soldier On Inc — 83% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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