· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 98% 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
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 31% of James M Thomas and Luvie C Thomas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 70%.
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 +15% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $150k · revenue +11%
- MCMississippi College5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%
- OEOKTIBBEHA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION D/B/A STARKVILLE ACADEMY4× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +57%
Funded once
Millsaps Collegeone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -11%- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OXFORD MISSISSIPPIone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 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 ↗
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James M Thomas and Luvie C Thomas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James M Thomas and Luvie C Thomas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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