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Mississippi Park Connection

The mission of the Mississippi Park Connection (MPC) is to strengthen the enduring connection between people and the Mississippi River by enriching the life of the river and the lives of all who experience the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (The National Park). MPC is a 501(c)(3) organization. Mississippi River Paddle…

$33k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$5.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Mississippi Park Connection funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
EnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$20k0%
FY20221$68k0%
FY20213$94k33%
FY20191$58k0%
FY20182$158k50%
FY20171$24kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Youth Development$167kEnvironment$160kArts & Culture$70kRecreation & Sports$24k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Park Service$322,8595n/a
Northern Lightsmn Inc$70,45027%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc$28,33320%

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About Mississippi Park Connection

How much does Mississippi Park Connection give?
Mississippi Park Connection reported 1 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $32,765 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Mississippi Park Connection fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Youth Development (40%), Environment (38%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Mississippi Park Connection's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: National Park Service ($323k), Northern Lightsmn Inc ($70k), Wilderness Inquiry Inc ($28k).
Does Mississippi Park Connection fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Mississippi Park Connection based?
Mississippi Park Connection is based in MN.

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 3 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $9k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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