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Mid-South Synergy Charitable Foundation Inc

To award scholarships to members of mid-south electric cooperative and assist the low income and needy.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of MID-SOUTH SYNERGY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $88,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $148,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK$20,000
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR INC$10,000
SONSHINE OUTREACH CENTER$10,000
MADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC$10,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD MISSION$10,000
NRECA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$8,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $10k → 17%SONSHINE OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 17%CRISIS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $8k → 9%SONSHINE OUTREACH CENTER: $8k → 17%BRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $10k → 22%MADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $6k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$157k · 8 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$157k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+1%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BV
    BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $36k · revenue +28%
  • CO
    COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +52%
  • SO
    SON-SHINE OUTREACH CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • BV
    BRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -6%
  • CA
    Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry

The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.

2
Beacon of Hope Services Inc

Beacon of Hope Services Mission: Connecting and Empowering our Community Through Food.

Human Services
3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
4
Smith County Help Center Inc

Assist residents and transients of Smith County with basic needs, including food, clothing, and emergency utility assistance

Human Services
5
Montgomery Community Action Committee & Community Dev Corp

Montgomery community action committee and community development corporation, inc. combats and advocates against poverty through social services and programs which assist low-income citizens to become self-sufficient in the river region.

Human Services
6
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama

To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
7
West Alabama Food Bank Inc

Our mission is to help alleviate hunger and food insecurity in west alabama.

8
Christian Cooperative Ministry Inc

To provide food and clothing for the residents in madison, tennessee and surrounding davidson county residents that are in need. we also provide sack lunches to the homeless in the area.

9
Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation

The mission of delta area economic opportunity corporation, a community action agency, is to provide appropriate programs and services that empower people to make positive change in their community, family and personal lives in order to…

10
Meals On Wheels Montgomery County

To foster the independence and dignity of homebound seniors in montgomery county by providing them with nutritious meals, transportation, and caring connections.

11
Montgomery Area Coalition for the Homeless Inc

To evaluate needs, facilitate solutions, and seek resources to end homelessness in the river region.

Human Services
12
Blount County Community Action Agency

Blount county community action agency is a charitable, non-profit organization that provides services and resources to help promote independence and self-sufficiency of elderly, disabled, and low income members of the community.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madison County House of Hope 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR INC — $18,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR INCST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH COLLEGE STATION TEXAS — $18,000 · OtherST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH COLLEGE STATION TEXASGOOD SHEPHERD MISSION — $18,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD MISSIONMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $18,000 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INCNRECA INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 · OtherNRECA INTERNATIONALSON-SHINE OUTREACH CENTER INC — $18,000 · Human ServicesSON-SHINE OUTREACH CENTER INCMADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $16,000 · Human ServicesMADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INCBRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $10,250 · Human ServicesBRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AG…Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center — $8,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Center Inc dba …BRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $36,000 · Food & NutritionBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK…
Other$87,000Human Services$52,250Food & Nutrition$36,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRAZOS VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSON-SHINE OUTREACH CENTER INC — $18,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD MISSION — $18,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $16,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNRECA INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZOS VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Mid-South Synergy Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mid-South Synergy Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mid-South Synergy Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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