· Public charity
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership Inc
The primary charitable and educational mission of the organization is to conserve, interpret, and promote the heritage area and, by so doing, to achieve historical understanding, preserve historically significant places, structures, and objects, encourage economic development and further the education and general welfare of the people of…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $97,846 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $151,422 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,576 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BB KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTER CTR | $16,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC | $16,000 |
| COAHOMA COLLECTIVE | $16,000 |
| DELTA BLUES FOUNDATION INC | $13,846 |
| FRIENDS OF LEXINGTON PRESERVATION | $12,000 |
| FREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK | $12,000 |
| LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 32%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MS; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +71%- CCCOAHOMA COLLECTIVE5× · 2021–2025 · $82k · revenue +56% · 46% of their budget
- BBB B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- CCCLEVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +212%
- MBMOUND BAYOU CIVIC CLUBone grant, 2020 · $20k
- BOB&GC of MS Band of Choctaw Indiansone grant, 2020 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The museum of the mississippi delta, founded in 1969, is at the crossroads of delta history and art. our extensive collection includes artifacts related to agriculture, native america, regional military history and one of the delta's most…
The purpose of the Crossroads Cultural Art Center (CCAC) is to support residents of Mississippi Delta in preserving and sharing the history and culture of the Delta amongst themselves and with visitors, especially through the arts. The…
The primary objective and purpose of this organization is to oversee the implementation of the physical and economic revitalization of downtown Clarksdale, MS.
Improvement of the business conditions of agriculture and trade in the mississippi delta communities and in industrial development in the mississippi delta
Contribute to local charitable organizations, educate populace regarding local history and wildlife issues, promote conservation of wildlife, nature, and historical sites
Preserve the history of the city of canton and madison county ms
To promote the economic development, cultural activities, recreational choices, and historical integrity of Midtown Memphis.
Delta center stage, inc. provides educational and cultural opportunities for the mississippi delta area through the presentation of amateur live theater.
To provide camps and to promote art
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Heritage Trust and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Lexington Preservation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COAHOMA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds B B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHAPE UP MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Development Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds We2gether Creating Change ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Tutwiler Community Education Center ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds ALEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds DELTA WIND BIRDS ↗
- Who funds Lower Mississippi River Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LEXINGTON PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership 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.
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.