Mississippi · Private foundation
Mississippi Power Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 96
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Mississippi Power Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $542k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 75 | $2.2M | 49% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $3.3M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $2.1M | 41% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $1.3M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 85 | $1.2M | 36% |
| FY2019 | 89 | $1.2M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 88 | $609k | 51% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Carey University | $1,764,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Way of South Mississippi | $1,071,121 | 9 | 26% |
| Mississippi State University Foundation Inc | $838,225 | 9 | 0% |
| Catholic Social and Community Services | $400,000 | 2 | 7% |
| United Way for Jacksongeorge & Greene Counties Ms Inc | $340,392 | 9 | 6% |
| United Way of East Mississippiinc | $297,607 | 9 | 11% |
| Hancock County Community Development Foundation | $266,500 | 7 | 47% |
| Picayune Main Street Inc | $210,000 | 5 | 92% |
| Aquatic Research Foundation | $206,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Walter Anderson Museum of Art Inc | $196,500 | 7 | 18% |
Show all 204 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 136 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mississippi Power Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 145 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Mississippi Power Foundation Inc
- How much does Mississippi Power Foundation Inc give?
- Mississippi Power Foundation Inc reported 75 grants totaling $2,199,515 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 96 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mississippi Power Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Philanthropy (19%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Mississippi Power Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: William Carey University ($1.8M), United Way of South Mississippi ($1.1M), Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ($838k).
- Does Mississippi Power Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mississippi Power Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mississippi Power Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Mississippi, Pinebelt Foundation.
- Where is Mississippi Power Foundation Inc based?
- Mississippi Power Foundation Inc is based in MS.
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