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Hardeman-Steele Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hardeman-Steele Foundation Inc

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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$271kReligion$188kAnimals$35kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$10kYouth Development$7kMembership Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL$35,000
GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL$30,260
Leflore County 4H$10,400
LOCUS BENEDICTUS$10,000
KILLEBREW AG FOUNDATION$7,500
SOUTHERN MUTTS RESCUE INC$5,000
COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$5,000
LEFLORE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
GREENWOOD MENTORING GROUP$5,000
GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL$2,900
GREENWOOD MS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$2,000
OUR LITTLE ROSES FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY$1,440
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 34%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%Boy Scouts of America: $2k → 17%KILLEBREW AG FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%DELTA WILDLIFE INC: $15k → 27%The Louise Thalheimer Trust: $340k → 34%KILLEBREW AG FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%The Louise Thalheimer Trust: $200k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL- PILLOW ACADEMY PA FUND: $50k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL: $50k → 34%THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: $45k → 34%The Church of the Nativity: $40k → 34%The Louise Thalheimer Trust: $40k → 34%Episcopal Church of the Nativity: $40k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL: $35k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL: $35k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL: $35k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL: $30k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL: $30k → 34%THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: $29k → 34%The Louise Thalheimer Trust: $20k → 34%THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: $20k → 34%Leflore County 4H: $10k → 34%LOCUS BENEDICTUS: $10k → 34%SOUTHERN MUTTS RESCUE INC: $5k → 34%COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 34%GREENWOOD MENTORING GROUP: $5k → 34%LEFLORE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL: $3k → 34%GREENWOOD LEFLORE EDUCATIONAL: $3k → 34%GREENWOOD MS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 34%GREENWOOD MS CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $2k → 34%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 6 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$1.0M
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-14%
0%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TL
    The Louise Thalheimer Trust
    4× · 2017–2020 · $600k
  • GL
    Greenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy
    3× · 2023–2025 · $271k · revenue -14%
  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $134k

Funded once

  • EC
    Episcopal Church of the Nativity
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • DW
    DELTA WILDLIFE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • TS
    The Salvation Army
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Greenwood Mississippi Cemetery Association

Operate and maintain a cemetery

Membership Benefit
2
Mississippi Farm Bureau Young Farmer Scholarship Foundation
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3
Ms Delta Academies dba Leflore Legacy Ac

At Leflore Legacy Academy, we equip and empower middle school scholars with a personalized rigorous and relevant college preparatory curriculum enabling success in high school, college, and life.

Education
4
Ouachita Mountains Biological Station
Environment
5
East Mississippi Animal Rescue

Rescue unwanted dogs

Animals
6
Mississippi Valley Hunters and Fishermans Association

Wildlife preservation

Recreation & Sports
7
Baptist Town Community Development

Revitalization of historic baptist town community in greenwood, leflore county, mississippi.

Community Improvement
8
Second Chances Animal Rescue- Pontotoc Ms

Animal Rescue

Animals
9
Greenwood Cemetery Association

To preserve, restore, beautify and historically interpret greenwood cemetery, which is owned by the city of jackson, mississippi.

—
10
Lyonses Endowment Coalition

Summer youth programs in rural mississippi.

Human Services
11
Compassion Food Ministry of Ms Inc

Food To The Needy

Food & Nutrition
12
Mississippi Wildlife Rehabilitation

Caring for orphaned and injured indigenous species of wildlife in mississippi and educating the public in appreciation, conservation and protection of the environment.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/a Pillow Academy; the most unlike its peers is Community Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
0/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Louise Thalheimer Trust: $600,000 · OtherThe Louise Thalheimer TrustTHE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: $133,560 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITYEpiscopal Church of the Nativity: $40,000 · Other+9 more: $50,720 · Other+9 moreGreenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy: $271,320 · EducationGreenwood Leflore Education…KILLEBREW AG FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Food & NutritionDELTA WILDLIFE INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentLocus Benedictus Inc: $10,000 · Religion
Other$824,280Education$271,320Food & Nutrition$17,500Environment$15,000Religion$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy: $271,320 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKILLEBREW AG FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetDELTA WILDLIFE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLocus Benedictus Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetLEFLORE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGREENWOOD MENTORING GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Greenwood Leflore Educational Foundation Inc D/B/A Pillow Academy ↗
  • Who funds KILLEBREW AG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DELTA WILDLIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds Locus Benedictus Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEFLORE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds GREENWOOD MENTORING GROUP ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC 558 CHICKASAW COUNCIL ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Northwest MississippiMS13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hardeman-Steele Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hardeman-Steele Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hardeman-Steele Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Hardeman-Steele Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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