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Lamberth Foundation of Mississippi
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fishers of Men Bible and Music Ctrs | $5,000 |
| Wayne Academy | $5,000 |
| Mission at the Cross | $5,000 |
| Heidelberg Cemetary Association | $5,000 |
| East Central Community College | $4,000 |
| New Deliverance Center For Men | $4,000 |
| Heidelberg Baptist Church | $3,500 |
| Palmer Home | $3,500 |
| Missing Peace Ministries | $3,000 |
| Soldiers Freedom Outdoors | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Waukaway Springs Christian Retreat | $2,000 |
| New Deliverance Center For Women | $2,000 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $2,000 |
| William Carey University | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those 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.
37 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 14 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- WCWilliam Carey University7× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +111%
- HVHOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +57%
- BTBURIED TREASURES HOME INC5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- MCMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM - MERIDIANone grant, 2024 · $3k
- ECEAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +59%
- NLNEW LIFE FOR WOMENone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
The college's mission is to train christians to serve god and his church.
Cmc passionately develops a students god-given potential in a practical process of biblical higher education, discipleship, and practical experience for sacrificial service in the church and community to expand gods kingdom in the world…
As an institution of christian higher education, eternity bible college exists to glorify god through graduates whose lives are transformed by rigorous study of the bible as scripture, empassioned love for god, and gracious service in the…
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.
Memphis union mission exists to glorify god and make disciples of jesus christ by ministering to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men and women who are homeless or destitute.
The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.
Williamson college creates a rigorous academic environment to equip and empower graduates to be on mission in the world for christ.
Prepare individuals to become pastors, evangelists, missionary workers, christian education teachers, and to assist the local church in carrying out its mission.
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
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…
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mobile and the most unlike its peers is The Heidelberg Cemetery Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 57 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 THE MISSION THE CROSS ↗
- Who funds William Carey University ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BURIED TREASURES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BUT GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MISSING PEACE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE HEIDELBERG CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds FISHERS OF MEN BIBLE AND MUSIC CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CARSON-NEWMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOBILE ↗
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: Phil Hardin Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Ergon Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Lamberth Foundation of Mississippi 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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