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Mississippi Engaged
Ms engaged is a 501c3 table that coordinates and resources civic engagement efforts of nonprofit and community based organizations to build transformative community power statewide.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHO XI LAMBDA ALPHAS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| IMMIGRANT ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE & EQUITY | $15,000 |
| LEADING LADIES OF MISSISSIPPI | $15,000 |
| COUNTYWIDE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI MOVE INC | $15,000 |
| REACHING & EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE (RECH) FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $15,000 |
| WE MUST VOTE INC | $15,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI WORKERS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $15,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI LOW-INCOME CHILD-CARE INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 86% of your 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.
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.
Our mission is to provide inspiration, services, tools, programs, support groups and resources to formerly incarcerated individuals for successful reentry into society in the local communities of Desoto, Tunica, Marshall and Tate counties.
Our mission is to support development of Mississippi worker-owned cooperatives
Employment and training agency- help displaced migrant and seasonal farmworkers enter unsubsidized employment, coupled with the assistance of supportive services and farm ownership training
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.
Provide services
Train, support & review education. the purpose of the center is for the promotion, improvement and expansion of community education through training seminars, consulting services and technical assistance.
To serve vulnerable populations with housing service and facilitate data collection, reporting and analysis
Mira works to support immigrants in the free and equitable use of their rights in mississippi through public education organizing and advocacy
To engage Alabamians by mobilizing communities, setting and acting upon a racial equity and social justice policy agenda, and creating peace through racial reconciliation and healing.
Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iaje and the most unlike its peers is Countywide Family Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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 CENTER FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI M O V E ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI WORKERS CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNTYWIDE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds IAJE ↗
- Who funds WE MUST VOTE 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: Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · 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 Engaged 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.
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Find your warmest path to Mississippi Engaged through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.