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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$90kHuman Services$42kReligion$18kInternational$15kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $88,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
GOOD SHEPHERD MISSION$10,000
MADISON COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE INC$10,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY FOOD BANK$10,000
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR MISSIONARY ENDEAVOR INC$10,000
SONSHINE OUTREACH CENTER$10,000
ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
NRECA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$8,500
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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montgomery County Food Bank Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

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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 Mid-South Synergy Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mid-South Synergy Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 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 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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