· Public charity
Mississippi Bar Foundation Inc
The foundation will strive to improve the administration of justice through the support of organizations which provide legal services to the poor and needy.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $502k
- $250k+1 grant · $262k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MS CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $262,257 |
| MS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT | $148,228 |
| MISSION FIRST | $110,069 |
| MS CENTER FOR LEGAL SERVICES | $102,323 |
| NORTH MS RURAL LEGAL SERVICES | $83,437 |
| THE MISSISSIPPI BAR | $57,838 |
| UNIV OF MS - CHILD ADVOCACY CLINIC | $7,913 |
| GULF COAST CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE | $7,421 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 95% of Mississippi Bar Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 18%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE6× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +27%
- MCMississippi Center For Legal Services Corporation8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +40%
- NMNorth MS Rural Legal Services Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- KCKID'S CHANCE OF MISSISSIPPI INCone grant, 2023 · $66k · revenue -33% · 58% of their budget
- MCMS CENTER FOR LEGAL SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $47k
- MLMB- LAWYERS AND JUDGES ASSISTANCE PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
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.
MCIR is an independent nonprofit news organization, tasked with educating and informing the people of Mississippi with in-depth, fact-based, nonpartisan information. MCIR focuses on institutionalized injustice and generational poverty.
Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.
Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.
The tennessee justice center (tjc) advocates on behalf of low-income tennesseans in areas of public policy having the greatest impact on their health and welfare.
Memphis Public Interest Law Center was created to fill the gap in legal services in the Memphis area through provision of research, education, and advocacy to underserved populations and issues.
Midpenn legal services is a non-profit, public interest law firm dedicated to providing equal access to justice and high quality civil legal services to low income residents and survivors of domestic violence in 18 counties in central…
Seeking to build relationships with diverse institutions around the state to build the power to effect political change in a non-partisan way while strengthening the institutions we engage with to help execute their institution's mission…
To provide free legal services to low-income citizens of jefferson county
Legal services to poor and underprivileged.
To enforce, advance and defend the civil legal rights of low income and vulnerable people, especially on behalf of elderly, children, victims of domestic violence and persons with disabilities, by providing free, civil legal assistance to…
MALS is a non-profit law firm whose mission is to provide excellence in legal advocacy for those in need. The vision is to promote justice for those in need. To carry out its mission, MALS delivery of client services is provided through a…
The dual mission of southwest louisiana law center is to provide first rate legal services to the unemployed and economically disadvantaged residents of southwest louisiana and to utilize the organization's legal capabilities for the…
How this is measured
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 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Mississippi Center For Legal Services Corporation ↗
- Who funds North MS Rural Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds KID'S CHANCE OF MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds EL PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mississippi Bar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mississippi Bar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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