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Maddox Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.1M
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 2024.

Human Services$6.8MPhilanthropy$3.1MArts & Culture$1.1MFood & Nutrition$803kCommunity Improvement$522kPublic Safety & Disaster$510kYouth Development$371kPublic Benefit$287kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MISSISSIPPI COATS4KIDZ: $10k → 25%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $250k → 31%WE2GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $10k → 32%MISSISSIPPI COATS4KIDZ: $10k → 25%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $100k → 31%WE2GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $10k → 32%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $100k → 31%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $75k → 31%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $75k → 31%DELTA ADVANTAGE CENTER: $10k → 32%HOUSE OF GRACE: $25k → 10%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 18 repeat orgs$905k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
26

Total granted

$13M
$905k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+72%

Still filing today

44%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • ET
    EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +106%
  • HH
    Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center
    2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue +22%
  • PS
    Philanthropy Southeast Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NM MS
    one grant, 2021 · $325k
  • Earth Island Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +148%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MS
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Our Mississippi Foundation
Community Improvement
2
Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy
Health
3
Mississippi Prosperity Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
4
Ms Museum of Natural Science Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Jackson State University Development Foundation Inc

To provide financial support to the JSU academic programs, student scholarships as well as general university support.

Education
6
Mississippis Lower Delta Partnership

Contribute to local charitable organizations, educate populace regarding local history and wildlife issues, promote conservation of wildlife, nature, and historical sites

Environment
7
Community Foundation of East Mississippi

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…

Philanthropy
8
Mississippi School of the Arts Foundation Inc

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.

Education
9
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
10
Mississippi Press Association Education Foundation

Provide educational grants and scholarships for journalism students and colleges and universities in mississippi

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11
Delta Health Alliance Inc

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…

Health
12
St Anthony Scholarship Foundation

Scholarships to be awarded at The University of Mississippi

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pinebelt Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
19/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTH: $6,223,000 · OtherYMCA OF MEMPHIS & THE MID-SOUTHCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW MS: $4,042,230 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW MSGRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI: $1,016,000 · OtherGRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI+29 more: $1,738,315 · Other+29 moreEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $600,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF GRACE: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $81,500 · PhilanthropyCREATE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyPINEBELT FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $52,880 · PhilanthropyEarth Island Institute Inc: $80,000 · EnvironmentGREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentHealing Hearts Child Advocacy Center: $100,000 · Crime & LegalGRIOT ARTS INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureB B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Other$13,019,545Human Services$675,000Philanthropy$349,380Environment$105,000Crime & Legal$100,000Arts & Culture$22,000Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $600,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetHealing Hearts Child Advocacy Center: $100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $81,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCREATE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPINEBELT FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $55,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $52,880 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNASHVILLE SCHOOL OF LAW: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetDELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHOUSE OF GRACE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COATS 4 KIDZ: $20,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetWe2gether Creating Change: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGRIOT ARTS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetB B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetMB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $9,700 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 GREEN SCHOOLS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF GRACE ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI COATS 4 KIDZ ↗
  • Who funds We2gether Creating Change ↗
  • Who funds GRIOT ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds B B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Mississippi Humanitie…WK Kellogg FoundationBlue Cross & Blue Shi…Community Foundation …Local Initiatives Sup…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Northwest MississippiMS36.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maddox Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maddox Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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