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James W Hood Family Foundation at a glance

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James W Hood Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$355k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.6MPhilanthropy$272kReligion$163kInternational$65kCrime & Legal$50kRecreation & Sports$37kHealth$28kYouth Development$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
First Presbyterian Day School$2,500
New Horizon Ministries$2,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cru: $3k → 13%Trans World Radio: $2k → 8%Reformed University Fellowship: $16k → 9%Delta Gamma Foundation: $10k → 15%Sigma Chi Foundation: $50k → 14%REAL Christian Foundation: $5k → 10%The Home Place: $6k → 11%New Horizon Ministries: $3k → 16%University of Mississippi Foundation: $10k → 18%Warren A Hood Jr Family Foundation: $250k → 22%CRU: $2k → 13%Reformed University Fellowship: $15k → 9%Alpha Psi Foundation: $10k → 15%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $6k → 11%University of Mississippi Foundation: $7k → 18%Reformed University Fellowship: $15k → 9%Delta Gamma Foundation: $10k → 15%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $5k → 11%Ole Miss Athletic Foundation: $6k → 18%Jackson Zoo Foundation: $5k → 23%Reformed University Fellowship: $15k → 9%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $5k → 11%MIssion First: $5k → 23%Reformed University Fellowship: $15k → 9%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $5k → 11%Mission First: $3k → 23%Reformed University Fellowship: $15k → 9%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $5k → 11%Mission First: $3k → 23%Mission First: $3k → 23%St Dominic Health Services: $25k → 23%New Horizon Ministries: $5k → 23%Community Foundation for Mississippi: $5k → 23%Community Foundation for Mississippi: $3k → 23%Belhaven University: $400k → 23%Belhaven University: $300k → 23%Belhaven University: $300k → 23%Belhaven University: $300k → 23%Belhaven University: $300k → 23%Belhaven University: $300k → 23%Belhaven University: $300k → 23%Belhaven University: $300k → 23%First Presbyterian Church: $45k → 23%First Presbyterian Church: $26k → 23%Mississippi Children's Museum: $10k → 23%Junior League of Jackson: $8k → 23%Mississippi Children's Museum: $5k → 23%First Presbyterian Day School: $3k → 23%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 16 repeat orgs$395k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$2.9M
$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +28%
  • MF
    MISSION FIRST INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +184%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • WA
    Warren A Hood Jr Family Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +836%
  • SC
    Sigma Chi Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • BS
    Boy Scouts of America
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
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
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

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…

Education
2
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

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…

Religion
3
St Anthony Scholarship Foundation

Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi

Education
4
Our Mississippi Foundation
Community Improvement
5
Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy
Health
6
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
7
University of Memphis Foundation

The foundation accepts, manages, and disburses private support to the university of memphis.

Education
8
Alumni Association of the University of Mississippi

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.

Education
9
University of Southern Mississippi Research Foundation

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…

Education
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
11
Missouri Delta Medical Center Foundation

Fundraising for capital improvements, scholarships, and other healthcare programs for missouri delta medical center.

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12
Musc Strategic Ventures

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Belhaven University: $2,500,000 · EducationBelhaven University+5 more: $94,000 · EducationReformed University Fellowship: $91,000 · OtherReformed Unive…FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $71,250 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTE…Mission to the World: $65,000 · OtherMission to the…CASA: $50,000 · OtherCASAFellowship of Christian Athletes: $30,700 · OtherFellowship of …Boy Scouts of America: $25,000 · OtherBoy Scouts of …ST DOMINIC HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · OtherST DOMINIC HEA…MISSION FIRST INC: $17,500 · Other+13 more: $65,400 · Other+13 moreWarren A Hood Jr Family Foundation: $250,000 · PhilanthropyWarren A …+3 more: $22,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MS INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $500 · Health
Education$2,594,000Other$440,850Philanthropy$272,000Arts & Culture$16,000Community Improvement$7,500Health$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBelhaven University: $2,500,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWarren A Hood Jr Family Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST DOMINIC HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION FIRST INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOW REAP FEED: $13,250 over 3y, 30% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HORIZON MINISTRIES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HEART FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF JACKSON MS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZON MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds REAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OLE MISS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗

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 …Ergon Foundation IncVan Devender Family F…Sam E & Burnice C Wit…Telos Foundation IncFeild Co-Operative As…The Pruet FoundationMake a Difference Fou…C Spire FoundationSelby and Richard McR…WEW FoundationForman Watkins & Krut…
Community Foundation for MississippiMS28.2× affinity11 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 · 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

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 James W Hood Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James W Hood Family Foundation. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to James W Hood Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to James W Hood Family Foundation 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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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