· Private foundation
Maddox Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH | $2,100,000 |
| CITY OF HERNANDO | $125,211 |
| EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER | $75,000 |
| YMCA FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TN | $50,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI NEWS CORPORATION | $25,000 |
| SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY SOUTHEAST | $13,180 |
| GRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI | $10,000 |
| NASHVILLE SCHOOL OF LAW | $5,000 |
| CANDIDGUIDESTAR | $3,801 |
| CITY OF HERNANDO | $3,500 |
| MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,400 |
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 (FY20–24, $675k) land where the poverty rate runs at 30%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ETEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +106%
- HHHealing Hearts Child Advocacy Center2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +22%
- PSPhilanthropy Southeast Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NM MSone grant, 2021 · $325k
- MGMISSISSIPPI GULF COAST COMM FDNone grant, 2020 · $80k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MSone grant, 2020 · $80k
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 foundation was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.
To provide financial support to the JSU academic programs, student scholarships as well as general university support.
Contribute to local charitable organizations, educate populace regarding local history and wildlife issues, promote conservation of wildlife, nature, and historical sites
The community foundation of east mississippi is a public charity dedicated to maintaining, improving and enriching the quality of life in east mississippi by supporting worthy causes, providing philanthropic services, and encouraging and…
The organization's purpose is to exclusively benefit, directly or indirectly, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of the Mississippi School of the Arts.
Provide educational grants and scholarships for journalism students and colleges and universities in mississippi
In alliance with Mississippi universities and other related non-profit entities, Delta Health Alliance, Inc.'s mission is to advocate, develop, and implement programs to improve the healthcare and educational needs of the most depressed…
Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pinebelt Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation of Washington County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 48 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 EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds GREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds We2gether Creating Change ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI COATS 4 KIDZ ↗
- Who funds GRIOT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA ADVANTAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds B B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
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 of Northwest Mississippi · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Maddox 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.