· Private foundation
Lower Pearl River Valley 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $516k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $113,749 |
| PICAYUNE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $76,891 |
| Individual grant recipient | $73,000 |
| SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA | $70,000 |
| MANNA MINISTRIES | $64,590 |
| COMMUNITY OF CHRISTIANS HELPING YOUTH | $59,400 |
| 15TH CIRCUIT COURT INTERVENTION COURT ENHANCEMENT | $57,877 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $40,000 |
| PEARL RIVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $31,007 |
| PEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $27,500 |
| SPAYMART | $25,000 |
| BROTHERS' KEEPER MINISTRIES | $24,742 |
| MISSISSIPPI FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS | $21,639 |
| POPLARVILLE ASSOCIATION OF ATHLETICS | $18,181 |
| SOUTHERN PEARL RIVER COUNTY BAK PAK INC | $18,175 |
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, $563k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- SSSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $480k · revenue +30%
- BKBrothers Keeper Ministries7× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +26% · 40% of their budget
- JWJACOBS WELL MINISTRIES INC3× · 2021–2023 · $110k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $75k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +56%
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 provide an environment where the compassion and love of Jesus Christ can empower people to overcome and prevent life's adversities.
To alleviate hunger in st. charles parish by soliciting, collecting and packaging food for distribution through a network of agencies and programs.
The primary function of the Jackson Council on the Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving…
The St. Luke Food Pantry is an IRS-recognized 501(c)3 nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of Mississippi. The organization is committed to continuing its long-standing history of providing food boxes to the eligible…
Christian based residential rehab program for men with drug addiction.
Dedicated to the promotion and protection of the general health and well being of children in chickasaw county, ms and surrounding areas by providing food, clothing, and other support for children and families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mb Swayze Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southern Pearl River County Bak Pak Inc. 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 37 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 COMMUNITY OF CHRISTIANS HELPING YOU ↗
- Who funds SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers Keeper Ministries ↗
- Who funds JACOBS WELL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Spay-Mart Inc ↗
- Who funds Senior Center of South Pearl River County Inc ↗
- Who funds POPLARVILLE ASSOCIATION OF ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds William Carey University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN PEARL RIVER COUNTY BAK PAK INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Exodus Project 21 ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds Association For Retarded Citizens Pearl River ↗
- Who funds MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Mississippi Power Foundation 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 Lower Pearl River Valley 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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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