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Lea Brent Family Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Lea Brent Family Charitable Trust

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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$16kYouth Development$6kAnimals$6kHealth$5kCrime & Legal$3kEducation$3kArts & Culture$3kMembership Benefit$100
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$104k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,308
KAIROS PRISON MINISTRY$1,050
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL UMMC$1,000
DELTA CENTER STAGE$600
WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI$500
4 EVER REDEEMED$500
THIRDMILL$500
Individual grant recipient$500
ST JOSEPH SCHOOL$200
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 21%THIRDMILL: $534 → 11%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%KAIROS PRISON MINISTRY: $1k → 18%MILLSAPS COLLEGE: $500 → 23%FRENCH CAMP: $500 → 23%4 EVER REDEEMED: $500 → 25%DELTA WILDLIFE: $500 → 27%THIRDMILL: $500 → 11%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $500 → 17%KAIROS PRISON MINISTRY: $1k → 18%MILLSAPS COLLEGE: $500 → 23%FRENCH CAMP: $500 → 23%DELTA WILDLIFE: $500 → 27%THIRDMILL: $500 → 11%KAIROS PRISON MINISTRY: $500 → 18%MILLSAPS COLLEGE: $500 → 23%FRENCH CAMP: $500 → 23%WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $500 → 27%MILLSAPS COLLEGE: $500 → 23%FRENCH CAMP: $500 → 23%WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $500 → 27%MILLSAPS COLLEGE: $500 → 23%FRENCH CAMP: $500 → 23%WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $500 → 27%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL UMCC: $1k → 23%WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $500 → 27%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL UMMC: $1k → 23%DELTA WILDLIFE: $500 → 27%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL UMCC: $750 → 23%DELTA WILDLIFE: $500 → 27%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL UMCC: $500 → 23%DELTA WILDLIFE: $500 → 27%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL UMCC: $500 → 23%WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $500 → 27%WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $500 → 27%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $8k → 27%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 27%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 27%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 27%ST JOSEPH SCHOOL & ATHLETIC ASSN: $906 → 27%DELTA CENTER STAGE: $750 → 27%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $682 → 27%DELTA CENTER STAGE: $600 → 27%DELTA CENTER STAGE: $600 → 27%ST JOSEPH SCHOOL & ATHLETIC ASSN: $578 → 27%DELTA CENTER STAGE: $500 → 27%ST JOSEPH SCHOOL & ATHLETIC ASSN: $467 → 27%ST JOSEPH SCHOOL & ATHLETIC ASSN: $428 → 27%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38k · 11 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$38k
$200

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
0%

Still filing today

45%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationHealthMembership BenefitReligionOther
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

  • WM
    WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +136%
  • DW
    DELTA WILDLIFE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +96%
  • Millsaps College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IO
    INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2024 · $100 · revenue 0%
  • GC
    GREENVILLE CEMETERY ASSN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100 · revenue -2%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $14,111 · OtherCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $2,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILDRENS HOSPITAL UMCC: $2,750 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL UMCCST JOSEPH SCHOOL & ATHLETIC ASSN: $2,729 · OtherST JOSEPH SCHOOL & ATHLETIC ASSNKAIROS PRISON MINISTRY: $2,550 · OtherKAIROS PRISON MINISTRYDELTA CENTER STAGE INC: $2,550 · OtherDELTA CENTER STAGE INCTHIRDMILL: $1,534 · Other+3 more: $1,700 · Other+3 moreWILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $3,000 · AnimalsDELTA WILDLIFE INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentMillsaps College: $2,500 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $100 · ReligionGREENVILLE CEMETERY ASSN INC: $100 · Membership Benefit
Other$30,824Animals$3,000Environment$2,500Education$2,500Health$1,000Religion$100Membership Benefit$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA CENTER STAGE INC: $2,550 over 5y, 28% of budgetDELTA WILDLIFE INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMillsaps College: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE CEMETERY ASSN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds DELTA CENTER STAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds DELTA WILDLIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds Millsaps College ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE CEMETERY ASSN INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lea Brent Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lea Brent Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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