· Public charity
Mississippi Humanities Council Inc
The mississippi humanities council (mhc) seeks to create and foster opportunities for the people of mississippi to understand themselves and others and to place their lives in the larger context of the human condition.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $208,690 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $487,154 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $278,464 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARGARET WALKER ALEXANDER RESEARCH CENTER | $18,641 |
| FRIENDLY CITY BOOKS | $17,500 |
| CREATE FOUNDATION INC | $17,210 |
| DR JANE ELLEN MCALLISTER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,935 |
| HANCOCK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM | $10,040 |
| THE WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER | $10,000 |
| COAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| THE ROSA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY | $9,600 |
| MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART | $9,250 |
| MISSISSIPPI FILM SOCIETY | $9,000 |
| ARTS FOUNDATION OF KOSCIUSKO | $9,000 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,786 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 68% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WAWALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +145%
- JCJOHN C ROBINSON BROWN CONDOR ASSO3× · 2020–2023 · $59k · revenue +69% · 27% of their budget
- LMLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER4× · 2017–2021 · $57k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- NSNEW STAGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +31%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $19k
- TLTHE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment
Non Profit Museum
The foundation was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.
The maritime museum will tell the story of the state's 300 year maritime history and will serve as a repository to archive, preserve, and display maritime artifacts and historical documents as well as provide extensive educational programs…
Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets
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…
Preserve the history of the city of canton and madison county ms
Operation of local history and art museum and promotion of local history and art.
To preserve and operate historic sites for public tours and research. to preserve historic documents for public inspection.
To maintain a museum that educates the public about the agriculture and forestry history of the state of mississippi and surrounding areas.
Preserving the history of Marshall County. Our mission is discovery, preservation, and dissemination of our county history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Museum of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rhythm Night Club Onsite Memorial Museum. 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.
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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
94 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. 94 of the 152 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN C ROBINSON BROWN CONDOR ASSO ↗
- Who funds LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OHR-O'KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds THE JIMMIE RODGERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds EASTMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE MARSHALL COUNTY & HOLLY SP ↗
- Who funds NEW STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MUSLIM CULTURE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Phil Hardin Foundation · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · C Spire Foundation · Women's Foundation of Mississippi · South Arts Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Walker Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc
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 Humanities Council Inc 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.