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James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore 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.

$128k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$78,033
Largest grant, FY2021
$78,033
Organizations funded a year
2 to 31
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
HealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$128k100%
FY202015$124k47%
FY201931$328kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Religion$164kEducation$126kPhilanthropy$63kHealth$27kAnimals$11kArts & Culture$9kFood & Nutrition$5kCivil Rights$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Millsaps College$20,00020%
Tougaloo College$20,00020%
Belhaven University$20,00020%
The McCoy House Extended Care for Women$20,000110%
Literacy Council of Highlands Inc$10,00011%
St Andrew's Episcopal School$10,0001n/a
Deep South Today$6,00020%
21 United$3,0001n/a
African Bible Colleges Inc$2,50010%
Mississippi Food Network Inc$2,50010%
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Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($453k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMillsaps College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTougaloo College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelhaven University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe McCoy House Extended Care for Women: $20,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetLiteracy Council of Highlands Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDeep South Today: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAfrican Bible Colleges Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMississippi Food Network Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Mississippi History: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDoors of Hope Transition Ministries: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFondren Renaissance Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Wilson Research Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDelta Wildlife Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Children's Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Shoestring Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGateway Rescue Mission Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhodes College: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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 for MississippiMS32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Phil Hardin Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Feild Co-Operative Association · Walker Foundation · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel 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.

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About James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation

How much does James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation give?
James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $128,033 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Education (22%), Philanthropy (11%).
Who are James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Millsaps College ($20k), Tougaloo College ($20k), Belhaven University ($20k).
Does James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Ergon Foundation Inc, Selby and Richard McRae Foundation.
Where is James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation based?
James H Creekmore Sr & Meredith W Creekmore Foundation is based in MS.

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 42 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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