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Lagniappe Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $2,000 |
| HOME OF GRACE | $1,000 |
| 721 MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| YALOBUSHA GREENWAYS ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| CAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA | $1,000 |
| COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF MS INC | $500 |
| GREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL | $500 |
| MARKET LIFE MINISTRIES | $500 |
| OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL | $500 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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 +11% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- 7M721 MINISTRIES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +16%
Teach for America Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +1%- DWDELTA WIND BIRDS4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFEone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +10%
- TLTHE LORD IS MY HELP FOOD KITCHENone grant, 2021 · $1k
MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -46%
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 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 proclaim the gospel of jesus christ
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Gospel mission
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Yfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to prayer
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
To assist the church, primarily in closed countries, in the establishment of continuing indigenous church-based training centers in which servant leaders are equipped to develop growing and reproducing churches.
To equip men to be preachers, pastors, and churchmen for christ's kingdom among the nations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Greenville Arts Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 56 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 721 MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OXFILM ↗
- Who funds HOME OF GRACE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DELTA WIND BIRDS ↗
- Who funds THE LONGLEAF ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS OUTREACH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLICAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING MINISTRIES ↗
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 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lagniappe 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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