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Mississippi Center for Justice

MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE is a nonprofit, public interest law firm committed to advancing racial and economic justice. Supported and staffed by attorneys and other professionals, the center develops and pursues strategies to combat discrimination and poverty statewide.

$60k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Mississippi Center for Justice funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’23
Civil RightsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$50k100%
FY20201$10k100%
FY20194$23k100%
FY20181$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Youth Development$50kCivil Rights$15kCrime & Legal$10kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys and Girls Club Walker Unit$50,0001n/a
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Allian$10,00012%
Feeding the Gulf Coast$10,0001n/a
Friends of Mississippi Civil Rights Inc$5,0001n/a
Catholic Charities Inc$2,95810%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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About Mississippi Center for Justice

How much does Mississippi Center for Justice give?
Mississippi Center for Justice reported 1 itemized grants totaling $50,000, out of $59,599 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Mississippi Center for Justice fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Youth Development (57%), Civil Rights (17%), Crime & Legal (11%).
Who are Mississippi Center for Justice's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Boys and Girls Club Walker Unit ($50k), Mississippi Immigrant Rights Allian ($10k), Feeding the Gulf Coast ($10k).
Does Mississippi Center for Justice fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Mississippi Center for Justice based?
Mississippi Center for Justice is based in MS.

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 7 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $31k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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