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Mississippi Power Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
75
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$401k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$5.3MPhilanthropy$2.8MCommunity Improvement$1.7MArts & Culture$1.1MEnvironment$637kAnimals$600kHuman Services$486kHealth$382kOther$0
02FY2025 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $547k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $587k
  • $250k+3 grants · $946k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Mississippi$400,500
United Way of South Mississippi$295,969
Mississippi State University Foundation$250,000
United Way of East Mississippi$130,096
Mississippi Aquarium$125,000
Open Doors Homeless Coalition$80,000
Mississippi State University$51,600
Hancock County Community Development Foundation$50,000
Main Street Pascagoula$50,000
Meridian Restoration Foundation Inc$50,000
Picayune Main Street$50,000
Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Region$35,000
East MS Business Development Foundation$30,000
South Central MS Consortium for Educational Excell$30,000
EXCEL by 5 Inc$30,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Mississippi State University Foundation: $250k → 24%SAMARITANS CLOSET AND PANTRY: $2k → 26%NURTURE OUR FUTURE: $15k → 18%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $102k → 24%NURTURE OUR FUTURE: $3k → 18%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $82k → 24%Program Believe: $10k → 19%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $80k → 24%PROGRAM BELIEVE: $10k → 19%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $67k → 24%PROGRAM BELIEVE: $10k → 19%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55k → 24%PROGRAM BELIEVE: $10k → 19%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $44k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $41k → 24%MOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 19%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $24k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $19k → 24%BROTHERS KEEPER MINISTRIES: $1k → 18%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $18k → 24%PETAL CHILDREN'S TASK FORCE INC: $2k → 22%JACKSON COUNTY CIVIC ACTION COMMITTEE: $8k → 16%HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 24%JACKSON COUNTY CIVIC ACTION COMMITTEE: $6k → 16%HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 24%HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC: $2k → 24%GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER: $2k → 23%HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 24%HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 24%THE FIELDHOUSE INC: $2k → 22%MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 16%HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 24%CARE LODGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC: $2k → 24%HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 24%CARE LODGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER: $1k → 24%CATHOLIC SOCIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $300k → 19%CATHOLIC SOCIAL & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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MI
NY
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PA
CA
VA
TN
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 136 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

136 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 98 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136
167

Total granted

$11M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+9%

Still filing today

52%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $968k 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
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WC
    William Carey University
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +111%
  • MS
    Mississippi State University Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $838k · revenue +153%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF EAST MISSISSIPPIINC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • UD
    UNLIMITED DREAMS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue +3% · 87% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue ×86
  • ET
    EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

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.

1
East Mississippi Development Corporation Meridian Community College
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2
University of Mississippi Medical Center Research Development Foundation

Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center

Health
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
Our Mississippi Foundation
Community Improvement
5
Empower Mississippi

We remove barriers to opportunity through citizen action so all mississippians can flourish.

Health
6
North Missindustrial Development a

Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.

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7
Mississippi State Medical Association Foundation Inc

The organization provides funding for medical research, educational programs for physicians and others as well as educational assistance for medical students. in addition, the organization provides grants to medical professionals whose…

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8
Working Together Mississippi

Seeking to build relationships with diverse institutions around the state to build the power to effect political change in a non-partisan way while strengthening the institutions we engage with to help execute their institution's mission…

Education
9
Governor's Council to Promote Mississippi

The mission of the organization is to promote mississippi.

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10
Foundation for Mississippi History

To conduct fundraising efforts to help support and promote the activities, programs and projects of the mississippi department of archives and history.

Philanthropy
11
Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy
Health
12
Gulf Coast Business Council Research Foundation Inc

To educate current and future leaders of the mississippi gulf coast and its communities and to research and identify solutions to economic, housing, educational, and workforce development issues associated with recovery and stability on…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Foundation of Mississippi and the most unlike its peers is Columbia-Marion County Development Foundation Inc. 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 backsteadyRegional Health SystemsSchool Booster OrganizationsSenior Affordable HousingPublic Education AdvocacyMississippi Community Advoc…Regional Arts & Performance…Arts & Cultural MuseumsChristian Ministry Organiza…Subsidized Housing for Disa…Educational Institution Sup…Community Development & Ski…University Affinity ClubsProfessional Association Ne…Faith-Based Recovery HousingResidential Care & Support …International Christian Chi…Agricultural Advocacy & Far…
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 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%7%<5yr16%12%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr16%8%5–10yr21%9%10–20yr14%36%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr14%17%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/210
the rest of the field
17%
897/5,363

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.

04the grantee network

171 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. 171 of the 346 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/171
Grantees still filing
97/171
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

William Carey University — $1,764,000 · OtherWilliam Carey UniversityUniversity of Mississippi — $400,500 · OtherMISSISSIPPI GULF COAST COMM COLLEGE FNDN — $343,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF EAST MISSISSIPPIINC — $297,607 · OtherHANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $266,500 · Other+130 more — $4,500,491 · Other+130 moreUNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — $1,071,121 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH M…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI — $400,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION …UNITED WAY FOR JACKSONGEORGE & GREENE COUNTIES MS INC — $340,392 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY FOR JACKSO…Mississippi Power Community Connection Inc — $167,477 · PhilanthropyMississippi Power Com…GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $145,750 · PhilanthropyGULF COAST COMMUNITY …THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MS INC — $136,509 · PhilanthropyEAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $123,500 · PhilanthropyPINEBELT FOUNDATION — $117,500 · Philanthropy+5 more — $136,928 · PhilanthropyMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $838,225 · Human ServicesMississipp…Catholic Social and Community Services — $400,000 · Human ServicesCatholic S…+5 more — $86,500 · Human Services+5 moreWALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $196,500 · Arts & CultureLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER — $155,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $104,500 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI COAST MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM — $78,500 · Arts & CultureARMED FORCES MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Arts & CultureMOSS POINT MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureGULFPORT MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $44,500 · Arts & CulturePICAYUNE MAIN STREET INC — $210,000 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET PASCAGOULA — $185,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF JONES COUNTY — $90,000 · Community ImprovementTWIN FORKS RISING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $45,000 · Community ImprovementEast Mississippi Business Development Foundation — $32,000 · Community ImprovementPASS CHRISTIAN MAIN STREET FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Community Improvement+5 more — $61,600 · Community ImprovementUNLIMITED DREAMS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER — $125,000 · EducationEXCEL BY 5 INC — $100,000 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN ENERGY — $75,000 · EducationCENTRAL CREATIVITY FOUNDATION INC — $74,000 · EducationFIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC — $50,000 · EducationLIGHTHOUSE ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXIA — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $30,465 · EducationSOUTH CENTRAL MS CONSORTIUM FOR EDUCATIONAL — $30,000 · EducationPROPEL EDUCATION FORUM OF MISSISSIPPI INC — $25,000 · EducationTougaloo College — $25,000 · Education+8 more — $80,800 · EducationAQUATIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $206,000 · AnimalsMISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM — $125,000 · AnimalsMISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $60,000 · Animals
Other$7,572,098Philanthropy$2,639,677Human Services$1,324,725Arts & Culture$809,000Community Improvement$753,600Education$665,265Animals$391,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWilliam Carey University — $1,764,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — $1,071,121 over 9y, 26% of budgetMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $838,225 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI — $400,500 over 5y, 32% of budgetCatholic Social and Community Services — $400,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR JACKSONGEORGE & GREENE COUNTIES MS INC — $340,392 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST MISSISSIPPIINC — $297,607 over 9y, 11% of budgetHANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $266,500 over 7y, 47% of budgetPICAYUNE MAIN STREET INC — $210,000 over 5y, 92% of budgetAQUATIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $206,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetWALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $196,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetMAIN STREET PASCAGOULA — $185,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetMississippi Power Community Connection Inc — $167,477 over 6y, 45% of budgetLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER — $155,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetGULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $145,750 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MS INC — $136,509 over 7y, 7.7% of budgetUNLIMITED DREAMS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER — $125,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetEAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $123,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetPINEBELT FOUNDATION — $117,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $112,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $104,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEXCEL BY 5 INC — $100,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetEXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COAST MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMeridian Restoration Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMeridian Community College Foundation — $88,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetEAST MISSISSIPPI BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CO — $87,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetLAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN — $83,250 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetMARITIME & SEAFOOD INDUSTRY MUSEUM — $78,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF BLACKS IN ENERGY — $75,000 over 5y, 79% of budgetCENTRAL CREATIVITY FOUNDATION INC — $74,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetMISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $60,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GULF COAST INC — $59,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetARMED FORCES MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 2y, 81% of budgetHOME OF GRACE CORPORATION — $51,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC — $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ACADEMY FOR DYSLEXIA — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBACK BAY MISSION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTATE GAMES OF MISSISSIPPI INC — $40,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetPROGRAM BELIEVE — $40,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMOSS POINT MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetGulf Coast Symphony Orchestra Inc — $39,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetGULFPORT MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION — $35,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetEast Mississippi Business Development Foundation — $32,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $30,465 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPASS CHRISTIAN MAIN STREET FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL MS CONSORTIUM FOR EDUCATIONAL — $30,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budget
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 William Carey University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Social and Community Services ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY FOR JACKSONGEORGE & GREENE COUNTIES MS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST MISSISSIPPIINC ↗
  • Who funds HANCOCK COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PICAYUNE MAIN STREET INC ↗
  • Who funds AQUATIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALTER ANDERSON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET PASCAGOULA ↗
  • Who funds Mississippi Power Community Connection Inc ↗
  • Who funds LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MS INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI AQUARIUM ↗
  • Who funds UNLIMITED DREAMS CHRISTIAN LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PINEBELT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EXCEL BY 5 INC ↗
  • Who funds EXTRA TABLE FEEDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI COAST MODEL RAILROAD MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Meridian Restoration Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF JONES COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Meridian Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EAST MISSISSIPPI BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
  • Who funds LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN ↗

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.

Gulf Coast Community …Community Foundation …Pinebelt FoundationPhil Hardin FoundationErgon Foundation IncLeo W Seal Jr Family …The Riley FoundationCommunity Foundation …Mississippi Humanitie…The Paul and Sherry B…Engelstad Family Foun…Cadence Bank Foundati…
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncMS92× affinity44 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Pinebelt Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Ergon Foundation Inc · Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundation · The Riley Foundation · Community Foundation of East Mississippi · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Cadence Bank Foundation

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 Power Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your 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
    38report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mississippi Power Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mississippi Power Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 346 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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