Mississippi · Private foundation
Mississippi Common Fund Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $994k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $83,333
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $203k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mississippi Common Fund Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $910k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $1.4M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $3.6M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $6.0M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $4.7M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $5.4M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $6.5M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $6.7M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $24,764,927 | 9 | 6% |
| Deep South Today | $3,150,000 | 9 | 37% |
| Ole Miss Athletic Foundation | $2,500,000 | 5 | 2% |
| St Andrew's Episcopal School | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Enterprise Corporation | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pearl River Vision Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Stewpot Community Services Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 3% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Mississippi Common Fund Trust
- How much does Mississippi Common Fund Trust give?
- Mississippi Common Fund Trust reported 5 grants totaling $993,713 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mississippi Common Fund Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), Arts & Culture (8%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are Mississippi Common Fund Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Mississippi Foundation ($25M), Deep South Today ($3.1M), Ole Miss Athletic Foundation ($2.5M).
- Does Mississippi Common Fund Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mississippi Common Fund Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mississippi Common Fund Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee, Ergon Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mississippi Common Fund Trust based?
- Mississippi Common Fund Trust is based in MS.
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