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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.

$426k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$97k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MEducation$128kCommunity Improvement$18kCrime & Legal$14kReligion$13kCivil Rights$10kPhilanthropy$8kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $374,984, the rows itemized in this filing. The $425,723 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,739 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $214k
$12,781
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODWARD HINES EDUCATION FOUNDATION$97,292
MISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$58,521
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE$57,917
HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$45,694
NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE$29,872
MERIDIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$15,007
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$12,781
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI$10,000
COPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
CREATE FOUNDATION INC$7,500
WOMAN MAKING MOVIES INC$7,200
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY$7,000
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI BLUES SOCIETY INC$6,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%THE LINK CENTRE: $12k → 14%EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $10k → 31%EMMETT TILL MEMORIAL COMMISSION: $8k → 31%GREENVILLE RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS: $8k → 27%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
OR
CA
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 46 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
102

Total granted

$1.6M
$909k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

63%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $296k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WA
    WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $71k · revenue +145%
  • JC
    JOHN C ROBINSON BROWN CONDOR ASSO
    3× · 2020–2023 · $59k · revenue +69% · 27% of their budget
  • LM
    LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $57k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • NS
    NEW STAGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • TL
    THE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -12%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mississippi Museum of Art Foundation

Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment

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2
Canton Madison Historical Society

Preserve the history of the city of canton and madison county ms

Arts & Culture
3
Ms Museum of Natural Science Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Guntersvill Historical Society Inc

Non Profit Museum

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5
Mississippi Maritime Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Sumter Museum

Operation of county museum and preservation of museum assets

Arts & Culture
7
Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Art Ctr

Operation of local history and art museum and promotion of local history and art.

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8
Crossroads Cultural Arts Center

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Madison County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
10
Jackson County Historical Society

To preserve and operate historic sites for public tours and research. to preserve historic documents for public inspection.

Arts & Culture
11
Marshall County Historical Society

Preserving the history of Marshall County. Our mission is discovery, preservation, and dissemination of our county history.

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12
Miss Agriculture & Forestry Museum Foundation Walter Siller Bldg

To maintain a museum that educates the public about the agriculture and forestry history of the state of mississippi and surrounding areas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Museum of Art Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 161 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/98
Grantees still filing
58/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY: $85,036 · OtherJACKSON STATE UNIVERSITYMISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES & HISTORY-MUSEUM DIVISON: $75,700 · OtherHINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $68,079 · OtherCOAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $63,548 · OtherMISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $58,521 · OtherSOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $57,917 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $56,714 · Other+79 more: $1,004,620 · Other+79 moreWALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $71,332 · Arts & CultureWALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INCJOHN C ROBINSON BROWN CONDOR ASSO: $59,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN C ROBINSON BROWN CONDOR ASSOLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER: $56,720 · Arts & CultureLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTERCLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $54,928 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INCMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: $52,550 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INCMARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM: $40,000 · Arts & CultureOHR-O'KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $38,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · Arts & Culture+39 more: $497,861 · Arts & Culture+39 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $132,900 · PhilanthropyCREATE FOUNDATION: $48,710 · PhilanthropyROSA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $13,655 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY: $9,600 · PhilanthropyWOODWARD HINES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $97,292 · EducationMississippi College: $24,700 · EducationMillsaps College: $22,280 · EducationQUITMAN COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $12,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $11,500 · EducationMERIDIAN HIGH BAND BOOSTERS INC FUND: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $5,730 · EducationHATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION: $15,000 · Community ImprovementWOODVILLE WILKINSON COUNTY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementTHE SOUTHWAY FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Community ImprovementDELTA HANDS FOR HOPE: $7,500 · Community ImprovementMIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,580 · Community ImprovementBEAN PATH: $5,450 · Community ImprovementLAUREL MAIN STREET INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementJUANITA SIMS DOTY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $17,500 · Human ServicesHARRISBURG CULTURAL & SOCIAL SERVIC: $12,000 · Human ServicesGREENVILLE RENAISSANCE SCHOLARS: $7,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION SHOESTRING INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesNorth MS Rural Legal Services Inc: $13,500 · Crime & LegalFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,470,135Arts & Culture$972,891Philanthropy$224,865Education$181,752Community Improvement$64,530Human Services$42,500Crime & Legal$23,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $132,900 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $71,332 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetJOHN C ROBINSON BROWN CONDOR ASSO: $59,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER: $56,720 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $54,928 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: $52,550 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCREATE FOUNDATION: $48,710 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $42,620 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetMARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM: $40,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetOHR-O'KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $38,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMISSISSIPPI ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMISSISSIPPI SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $32,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA: $31,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMississippi College: $24,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JIMMIE RODGERS FOUNDATION INC: $22,870 over 2y, 10% of budgetMillsaps College: $22,280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEASTMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $21,670 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMISSISSIPPI INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $21,548 over 2y, 11% of budgetPRESERVE MARSHALL COUNTY & HOLLY SP: $21,043 over 3y, 15% of budgetNEW STAGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROSA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MUSLIM CULTURE: $19,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECT: $18,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMississippi Action For Community Education Inc: $15,428 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER JACKSON ARTS COUNCIL: $15,130 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetINSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetB B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM ASSN: $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetHISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP: $14,600 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOPIAH-LINCOLN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $13,900 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC: $13,655 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNorth MS Rural Legal Services Inc: $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL: $13,300 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHICKASAW INKANA FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetQUITMAN COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $12,750 over 1y, 64% of budgetWOODVILLE WILKINSON COUNTY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetHARRISBURG CULTURAL & SOCIAL SERVIC: $12,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetMississippi Cultural Crossroads Inc: $11,600 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMeridian Restoration Foundation Inc: $10,244 over 1y, 16% of budgetSOUTHERN CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATI: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds WOODWARD HINES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 CREATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Phil Hardin FoundationCommunity Foundation …Mississippi Power Fou…Kathryn & Julian Wien…C Spire FoundationWomen's Foundation of…South Arts IncSelby and Richard McR…Walker FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationGulf Coast Community …
Community Foundation for MississippiMS59.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mississippi Humanities Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mississippi Humanities Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 161 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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