How much did MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath 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

benefitcommunicationdonorscorporationcharteredprimarilyresponsible

2020

documentaryenrich livespromotionengagepropertypreservation restorationheritage

2021

hancock discoverarchitecture hancockfreedomkingcultural heritagesocialcelebrates

2022

film

2023

rich diversephotographyjimmie rodgerseconomiceducationalartisticcultural

2024

serves stimulatestimulate givinggiving olpmentolpment educationhealth culturalcultural enrichmentenrichment leadership

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $81k
$10k–50k10 grants · $127k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
COAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER$10,000
THE WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
THE ROSA FOUNDATION$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY$9,600
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART$9,250
ARTS FOUNDATION OF KOSCIUSKO$9,000
MISSISSIPPI FILM SOCIETY$9,000
JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY$8,786

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25% — the area typically sits at 15%. 68% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 37 repeat orgs$801k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$703k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+19%

Still filing today

62%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

MS BOOK FESTIVAL
5× · 2018–2022 · $123k · revenue +72%
TW
THE WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART
5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +125%
JC
JOHN C ROBINSON CONDOR FOUNDATION
3× · 2020–2023 · $59k · revenue +38% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

NS
NEW STAGE THEATRE
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -5%
TL
THE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRLS PROJECTgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +1006%
MH
MISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +361%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Foundation

The arkansas museum of fine arts foundation was created by the arkansas museum of fine arts in 1972 to manage and administer an endowment fund for the benefit of the museum and to hold legal title to the collection of art objects.

Arts & Culture

Museum of East Texas

Developing and maintaining a museum devoted to the procurement, care, and display of objects of lasting historical and cultural interest. The museum offers a variety of public programs throughout the year and is committed to visual arts…

Arts & Culture

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Located in the vibrant warehouse arts district of downtown new orleans, louisiana, the ogden museum of southern art holds the largest and most comprehensive collection of southern art and is recognized for its original exhibitions, public…

Arts & Culture

Tallahassee Museum of History and

The tallahassee museum inspires people to transform their lives, community and the world through an enhanced understanding of our region's natural and cultural environments.

Arts & Culture

Museum of South Texas History

To preserve and present the borderland heritage of south texas and northeastern mexico.

Arts & Culture

Southeastern Museums Conference

Semc, a nonprofit membership organization is an association of museums, museum staff, independent professionals, and corp. partners. we provide education and professional development.

Arts & Culture

Hartsville Museum Foundation Inc

Arts & Culture

Houston Museum of Decorative Arts

The mission of the houston museum of decorative arts is to preserve, enhance, present, and promote the decorative art collection of the late anna safley houston for public understanding, education, and enjoyment; to increase public…

Arts & Culture

National Civil War Museum

The mission of the National Civil War Museum is to serve as a national center to inspire lifelong learning of the American Civil War through the preservation and balanced presentation of the American peoples struggles for survival and…

Arts & Culture

Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

The museum of the southern jewish experience explores the many ways that jews in the american south influenced and were influenced by the distinct cultural heritage of their communities.

Arts & Culture

The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture

The Texarkana Historical Society

The mission of the museum is to provide historical and educational values of the city of texarkana and its surrounding featuers the city has experienced in the past and its forward process into the future.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Arts and Entertainment 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.

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 23 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%3/112

the rest of the field

14%

1,807/13,260

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.

05the grantee network

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

73/77

Grantees still filing

45/77

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$933,186Arts & Culture$820,532Philanthropy$193,910Education$77,180Community Improvement$48,530Human Services$42,500Crime & Legal$13,500

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.

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 MississippiMS53.6× affinity24 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 · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Women's Foundation of Mississippi · South Arts Inc · Woodward Hines Education Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Mississippi Delta National Heritage · Mississippi Hills Heritage Area · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MERIDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 640607274 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MERIDIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 70% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mississippi Humanities Council Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mississippi Humanities Council 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.

MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mississippi Humanities Council Inc?

More from the funding graph

MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

77 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mississippi Humanities Council Inc?

More from the funding graph