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Mississippi Food Network Inc

To relieve poverty-related hunger by distributing donated and purchased food and grocery products through a network of member churches and nonprofit organizations; to provide nutrition education to the needy; and to emphasize advocacy and related needs.

$37M
Granted FY2025still arriving
Grants FY2025still arriving
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025

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: $36,655,486.

$0
Median grant
States reached
$19M
Total assets
02The need
02

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 — 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.

1
Mississippi Christian Family Services Inc

To provide rehabilitative social services to the distressed, handicapped and underprivileged.

2
St Luke Food Pantry

The St. Luke Food Pantry is an IRS-recognized 501(c)3 nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of Mississippi. The organization is committed to continuing its long-standing history of providing food boxes to the eligible…

Food & Nutrition
3
Dale County Rescue Mission

The rescue missions purpose is to provide food, housing , and transportation in emergency situations to local residents and transients, Those served are spiritually ministered.

Human Services
4
Christian Mission Centers Inc

The christian mission centers seeks to meet the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of all people to whom we minister.

5
Grace Resource Center Inc

To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.

Housing & Shelter
6
Children's Refuge Ministries

Dedicated to the promotion and protection of the general health and well being of children in chickasaw county, ms and surrounding areas by providing food, clothing, and other support for children and families in need.

Food & Nutrition
7
Messengers of Hope Mission Inc

mobile food pantry

Food & Nutrition
8
Community Share Ministry Co

Community Share's mission is to feed, clothe, and house people in need within the Polk County, GA and surrounding communities.

Housing & Shelter
9
Catholic Social and Community Services

Dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families residing in the Diocese of Biloxi through direct and indirect services.

Human Services
10
Hand Up Ministries

Organization was established for community servic

Human Services
11
Harvest House

Food Security

Human Services
12
Community for Christ Outreach

Religious Orginazation

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Fairview Missionary Baptist Church. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Food PantriesYmca Youth DevelopmentLocal Food System Organizat…Community FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesSchool District FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Senior Support ServicesIndependent K-12 Schools
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%10/433
the rest of the field
13%
240,386/1,819,132

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 MississippiMS61× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Pinebelt Foundation · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · United Way of Northeast Mississippi Inc · Southern Poverty Law Center Inc · Cadence Bank Foundation · United Way of East Mississippiinc · St Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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