· Private foundation
James W Hood Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Belhaven University | $300,000 |
| CASA | $25,000 |
| Junior League of Jackson | $7,500 |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $7,000 |
| MIssion First | $5,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $5,000 |
| New Horizon Ministries | $2,500 |
| First Presbyterian Day School | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +28%- MFMISSION FIRST INC6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +184%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- WAWarren A Hood Jr Family Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +836%
- SCSigma Chi Foundationone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +18%
- BSBoy Scouts of Americaone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi
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…
The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.
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 mission of the foundation is to oversee the acquisition of gifts, contributions and grants for sponsored research for individuals, industries, private organizations and government agencies and to assist with transferring technology…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Fundraising for capital improvements, scholarships, and other healthcare programs for missouri delta medical center.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Warren a Hood Jr Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 Belhaven University ↗
- Who funds Warren A Hood Jr Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOW REAP FEED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MS INC ↗
- Who funds REAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Telos Foundation Inc · Feild Co-Operative Association · The Pruet Foundation · Make a Difference Foundation · C Spire Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · WEW Foundation · Forman Watkins & Krutz Charitable 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 W Hood Family 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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