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Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership Inc at a glance

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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…

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$434kEducation$169kHuman Services$44kPublic Benefit$43kRecreation & Sports$42kHealth$39kCommunity Improvement$20kYouth Development$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $97,846, the rows itemized in this filing. The $151,422 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,576 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.
$13,846
Median grant
2
States reached
$920k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BB KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTER CTR$16,000
COAHOMA COLLECTIVE$16,000
CLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC$16,000
DELTA BLUES FOUNDATION INC$13,846
LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER FOUNDATION$12,000
FRIENDS OF LEXINGTON PRESERVATION$12,000
FREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK$12,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 24%GREENVILLE RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS: $14k → 27%TUWILER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $17k → 31%WE2GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $24k → 32%COAHOMA COLLECTIVE: $24k → 36%MS STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 24%TUWILER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $7k → 31%WE2GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $6k → 32%COAHOMA COLLECTIVE: $22k → 36%COAHOMA COLLECTIVE: $16k → 36%COAHOMA COLLECTIVE: $14k → 36%COAHOMA COLLECTIVE: $6k → 36%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 89%.

Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$630k · 13 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$630k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+86%

Still filing today

69%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • CLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $103k · revenue +71%
  • CC
    COAHOMA COLLECTIVE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $82k · revenue +56% · 46% of their budget
  • BB
    B B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • BO
    B&GC of MS Band of Choctaw Indians
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +212%
  • MB
    MOUND BAYOU CIVIC CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Revitalize Mississippi Inc
Community Improvement
2
East Mississippi Development Corporation Meridian Community College
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3
Museum of the Mississippi Delta

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Crossroads Cultural Arts Center

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Our Mississippi Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Clarksdale Revitalization Inc

The primary objective and purpose of this organization is to oversee the implementation of the physical and economic revitalization of downtown Clarksdale, MS.

—
7
Delta Council

Improvement of the business conditions of agriculture and trade in the mississippi delta communities and in industrial development in the mississippi delta

—
8
Mississippis Lower Delta Partnership

Contribute to local charitable organizations, educate populace regarding local history and wildlife issues, promote conservation of wildlife, nature, and historical sites

Environment
9
Canton Madison Historical Society

Preserve the history of the city of canton and madison county ms

Arts & Culture
10
Midtown Development Corporation

To promote the economic development, cultural activities, recreational choices, and historical integrity of Midtown Memphis.

Community Improvement
11
Delta Center Stage Inc

Delta center stage, inc. provides educational and cultural opportunities for the mississippi delta area through the presentation of amateur live theater.

—
12
Mississippi Art Colony Inc

To provide camps and to promote art

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Heritage Trust; 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.
05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $85,212 · OtherMISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYDELTA BLUES FOUNDATION INC: $53,335 · OtherDELTA BLUES FOUNDATION INCMT ZION MEMORIAL FUND FOR BLUES MUSIC AND JUSTICE: $29,500 · OtherMT ZION MEMORIAL FUND FOR BLUES MUSIC AND …QUITMAN COUTY BOARD OF SUPERV: $23,000 · OtherQUITMAN COUTY BOARD OF SUPERVB&GC of MS Band of Choctaw Indians: $19,600 · OtherB&GC of MS Band of Choctaw IndiansCLEVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $19,600 · OtherCLEVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCEMOUND BAYOU CIVIC CLUB: $19,600 · OtherMOUND BAYOU CIVIC CLUBBB KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRE: $19,541 · OtherBB KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPREFAMILY AND YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $19,200 · OtherFAMILY AND YOUTH OPPORTUNITIESLower Mississippi River Foundation: $12,000 · OtherFREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK: $12,000 · OtherCLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $103,005 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INCB B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $60,000 · Arts & CultureB B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERP…MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $48,500 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUSTFrom The Heart Productions: $18,144 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart ProductionsDELTA ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $8,755 · Arts & CultureCOAHOMA COLLECTIVE: $81,500 · Human ServicesCOAHOMA COLLECTIVEWe2gether Creating Change: $29,500 · Human ServicesWe2gether Creating Chan…Mississippi State University Foundation Inc: $24,500 · Human ServicesMississippi State Unive…Tutwiler Community Education Center: $23,710 · Human ServicesTutwiler Community Educ…GREENVILLE RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS: $13,790 · Human ServicesGREENVILLE RENAISSANCE …Cleveland Development Foundation Inc: $29,500 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF LEXINGTON PRESERVATION INC: $12,000 · Community ImprovementSHAPE UP MISSISSIPPI: $38,860 · HealthALEX FOUNDATION: $15,762 · EducationDELTA WIND BIRDS: $13,600 · Animals
Other$312,588Arts & Culture$238,404Human Services$173,000Community Improvement$41,500Health$38,860Education$15,762Animals$13,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $103,005 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCOAHOMA COLLECTIVE: $81,500 over 5y, 46% of budgetB B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $48,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSHAPE UP MISSISSIPPI: $38,860 over 2y, 31% of budgetCleveland Development Foundation Inc: $29,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetWe2gether Creating Change: $29,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc: $24,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTutwiler Community Education Center: $23,710 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCLEVELAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $19,600 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $18,144 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALEX FOUNDATION: $15,762 over 1y, 14% of budgetGREENVILLE RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS: $13,790 over 1y, 19% of budgetDELTA WIND BIRDS: $13,600 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLower Mississippi River Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEXINGTON PRESERVATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetDELTA ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $8,755 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Community Foundation …Mississippi Humanitie…Community Foundation …Jessie Smith Noyes Fo…Local Initiatives Sup…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Northwest MississippiMS21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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