Mississippi · Private foundation
Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $764k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $27,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $113,749
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $764k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.0M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $939k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.0M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $795k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $765k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $710k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picayune School District | $2,486,632 | 9 | n/a |
| Community of Christians Helping You | $621,880 | 8 | 79% |
| Sight Savers of America Inc | $480,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Manna Ministries Inc | $294,544 | 8 | 12% |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $192,080 | 4 | n/a |
| Brothers Keeper Ministries | $149,687 | 7 | 40% |
| Spay-Mart Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Jacobs Well Ministries Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Senior Center of South Pearl River County Inc | $89,073 | 4 | 17% |
| Poplarville Association of Athletics Inc | $71,000 | 2 | 22% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picayune School District | $2,486,632 | 9 | n/a |
| Community of Christians Helping You | $621,880 | 8 | 79% |
| Sight Savers of America Inc | $480,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Manna Ministries Inc | $294,544 | 8 | 12% |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $192,080 | 4 | n/a |
| Brothers Keeper Ministries | $149,687 | 7 | 40% |
| Spay-Mart Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Jacobs Well Ministries Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Senior Center of South Pearl River County Inc | $89,073 | 4 | 17% |
| Poplarville Association of Athletics Inc | $71,000 | 2 | 22% |
| William Carey University | $66,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern Pearl River County Bak Pak Inc | $54,897 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Southern Mississippi Foundation | $37,910 | 1 | 0% |
| The Exodus Project 21 | $29,668 | 3 | 54% |
| Crossroads Food Pantry | $27,400 | 2 | n/a |
| Reach Out and Read Inc | $22,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain | $14,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Pearl River County Community Band Inc | $10,948 | 2 | n/a |
| Association For Retarded Citizens Pearl River | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mb Swayze Educational Foundation | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation
- How much does Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation give?
- Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $763,799 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (13%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Picayune School District ($2.5M), Community of Christians Helping You ($622k), Sight Savers of America Inc ($480k).
- Does Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Mississippi Power Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation based?
- Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation is based in MS.
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