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· Public charity
MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC
To relieve poverty-related hunger by distributing donated and purchased food and groceries.
$45M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $44,515,735.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$21M
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Mississippi Christian Family
To provide rehabilitative social services to the distressed, handicapped and underprivileged.
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Forgiven the Evangelistic Ministry
Ministry
Religion
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Dale County Rescue Mission
The Rescue Missions Purpose is to provide food, housing, transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients. Those served are spiritually ministered.
Human Services
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Grace & Mercy Ministries
To Provide Food, Shelter, and Spiritual Guidance to the Least, Last, and Lost. The ministry seeks to meet the basic needs of the community providing food, clothing, hygiene kits, and job assistance.
Religion
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Messengers of Hope Mission Inc
mobile food pantry
Food & Nutrition
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Helping Hands Ministry
To help the community in which we live, by improving the quality of life for the elderly and disabled by providing free food.
Human Services
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Mississippi Methodist Senior Services
Mississippi methodist senior services (mss) has proudly served older adults by providing comfortable, affordable housing, support, and long-term care services since 1962. it is ranked 51st in the national leadingage/ziegler 200 list of the…
Human Services
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Harvest House
Food Security
Human Services
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House of Grace
To offer a christ centered way out of a seemingly hopeless situation for victims of domestic violence.
Human Services
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Elbert County United Methodist Food Ministry Inc
Food & Nutrition
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Storehouse Community Food Pantry
To provide temporary food assistance to citizens of Vicksburg and Warren County, Mississippi who suffer from Food Insecurity, that is not always knowing where there next meal will come from.
Food & Nutrition
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3G Food Pantry
Local food pantry serving those food insecurity.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Food Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Closet & Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%9/389
the rest of the field
11%
206,155/1,819,176
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.
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.
Community Foundation for MississippiMS52.9× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Community Foundation of Northwest · Ergon Foundation Inc · Van Devender Family Foundation · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Community Foundation of East · Southern Poverty Law Center Inc · Cadence Bank Foundation · United Way of East Mississippiinc · Century Club Charities Inc · Women's Foundation of Mississippi
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Mississippi Food Network Inc?
Find your warmest path to Mississippi Food Network Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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