Mississippi · Public charity
Mississippi First Inc
Mississippi first champions transformative policy solutions ensuring educational excellence for every misssissippi child.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Mississippi First Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Mississippi, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $174,146
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,407,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 3
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Mississippi First Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $1.1M | 71% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $728k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $752k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instant Impact Educational Services dba Instant Impact Global Preparatory | $851,983 | 3 | 65% |
| RePublic Schools Jackson Inc | $636,160 | 2 | 1% |
| Mississippi Charter Schools Association | $517,000 | 1 | 51% |
| Clarksdale Collegiate | $242,139 | 1 | 2% |
| Sr1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy | $141,884 | 1 | 15% |
| MS Delta Academies dba Leflore Legacy Ac | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ambition Preparatory Charter School | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Jackson Public School District | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi Global Academy | $44,050 | 1 | 22% |
Where it is load-bearing
Mississippi First Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Mississippi First Inc
- How much does Mississippi First Inc give?
- Mississippi First Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $2,496,044, out of $2,575,276 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Mississippi First Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Mississippi First Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Instant Impact Educational Services dba Instant Impact Global Preparatory ($852k), RePublic Schools Jackson Inc ($636k), Mississippi Charter Schools Association ($517k).
- Does Mississippi First Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mississippi First Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Mississippi First Inc based?
- Mississippi First Inc is based in MS.
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