· Private foundation
James M Thomas and Luvie C Thomas 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $57,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CARTHAGE MISSISSIPPI | $30,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI BAPTIST FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| TOM HARRISON PASTORAL MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $7,120 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK CITY SCHOOLS COUNCIL PTO | $4,000 |
| ALL IN MOUNTAIN BROOK | $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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 98% 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.
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 31% of James M Thomas and Luvie C Thomas 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. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MS; read by stated purpose it is 70% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +22% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- BHBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $408k · revenue +22%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +11%
- MCMississippi College5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%
Funded once
Millsaps Collegeone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -11%- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OXFORD MISSISSIPPIone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi
Christian fellowship for college students
To assist students in developing intellectual integrity, academic excellence, social awareness, and christian character
The university of mary hardin-baylor prepares students for leadership, service, and faith-informed discrenment in a global society. academic excellence, personal attention, broad-based scholarship and a commitment to a baptist vision for…
The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.
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.
To nurture discipleship during crucial college years by offering students opportunities for worship, study, missions, leadership, fellowship, and support.
Funded to benefit and support Itawamba Community College a state-supported two-year college.
The foundation is a non-profit organzation that aids the university in promoting and cultural welfare, developing and expanding facilities, and facilitating studies, research, and other academic persuits.
On july 1, 2021, an asset transfer and transition agreement was made between the college and the university of tennessee. the agreement enabled the university of tennessee to absorb the college's institutional assets and operations for the…
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
The foundation is an auxilary organization of southwest ms community college and administers scholarships to both students and faculty members and raises funds to supplement different areas of the entire college.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Cross of Christ for Starkville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds OKTIBBEHA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION D/B/A STARKVILLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Tom Harrison Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS OF CHRIST FOR STARKVILLE ↗
- Who funds ALL IN Mountain Brook ↗
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 James M Thomas and Luvie C Thomas 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.
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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