Mississippi · Private foundation
Phil Hardin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $450,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $62M
- 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 Phil Hardin Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $613k 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 | 66 | $4.3M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $4.2M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $3.8M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $4.2M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $3.6M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 48 | $3.0M | 27% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $3.3M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 49 | $3.0M | 39% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Children's Museum | $2,845,000 | 9 | 11% |
| Meridian Community College Foundation | $1,899,500 | 9 | 25% |
| Mississippi State University Foundation Inc | $1,552,637 | 8 | 1% |
| Millsaps College | $1,288,148 | 9 | 0% |
| Freedom Project Network | $684,750 | 6 | 76% |
| Children's Foundation of Mississippi | $615,000 | 7 | 53% |
| Meridian Symphony Association Inc | $500,000 | 9 | 20% |
| East Mississippi Business Development Foundation | $450,790 | 8 | 66% |
| Belhaven University | $373,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Spring Initiative Inc | $370,000 | 9 | 5% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 77 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Phil Hardin Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Ergon Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Walker Foundation · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · The Riley Foundation · Woodward Hines Education Foundation · C Spire Foundation · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation
How this is measured
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About Phil Hardin Foundation
- How much does Phil Hardin Foundation give?
- Phil Hardin Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $4,488,612 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Phil Hardin Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Arts & Culture (27%), Health (5%).
- Who are Phil Hardin Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mississippi Children's Museum ($2.8M), Meridian Community College Foundation ($1.9M), Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Phil Hardin Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Phil Hardin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Phil Hardin Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Mississippi Humanities Council Inc, Mississippi Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is Phil Hardin Foundation based?
- Phil Hardin Foundation is based in MS.
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