· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 81% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Gv Sonny Montgomery Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- EMEAST MS VETERANS MEMORIAL PARKone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SOSOLDIER ON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +77%
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.
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…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 92 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
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 THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ENLISTED ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Meridian Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRAIL OF HONOR ↗
- Who funds CATCH-A-DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOLDIER ON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES CAPITOL PAGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOCTAW AREA COUNCIL NO 302 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MISSISSIPPI VETERANS ↗
- Who funds ARMED FORCES MUSEUM FOUNDATION 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gv Sonny Montgomery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gv Sonny Montgomery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Soldier On Inc: 83% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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