Mississippi · Community foundation
Pinebelt Foundation
The foundation is a not-for-profit organization designed to support charitable activities to benefit the residents of the pine belt area of south mississippi. The mission is to build better communities through philanthropy. As a driving force in our region, our mission is to build stronger communities through philanthropy. Donors can…
- $5.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 133
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $5.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,673,767
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 80
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $62M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Pinebelt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 72% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthReligionEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 113 | $2.7M | 48% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $3.0M | 48% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $1.8M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $3.5M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $2.8M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $1.1M | 52% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $1.2M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $1.2M | 0% |
98% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Philanthropy$10MReligion$7.1MEducation$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.7MHuman Services$1.7MHealth$1.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.6MInternational$538kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
MN
WI
IA
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra Table Feeds Inc | $1,362,706 | 6 | 96% |
| Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Foundation | $1,328,577 | 1 | 100% |
| R3sm Inc | $1,279,982 | 7 | 30% |
| St John the Baptist Catholic Church | $700,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carmel of Jesus Mary Joseph Fairfield Inc | $635,000 | 2 | n/a |
| International Myeloma Foundation | $452,780 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Southern Mississippi Foundation | $452,042 | 4 | 1% |
| Homes of Hope for Children Inc | $419,915 | 5 | 18% |
| Venture Church | $390,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Common Ground Baptist Church | $360,000 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra Table Feeds Inc | $1,362,706 | 6 | 96% |
| Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Foundation | $1,328,577 | 1 | 100% |
| R3sm Inc | $1,279,982 | 7 | 30% |
| St John the Baptist Catholic Church | $700,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carmel of Jesus Mary Joseph Fairfield Inc | $635,000 | 2 | n/a |
| International Myeloma Foundation | $452,780 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Southern Mississippi Foundation | $452,042 | 4 | 1% |
| Homes of Hope for Children Inc | $419,915 | 5 | 18% |
| Venture Church | $390,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Common Ground Baptist Church | $360,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of Hattiesburg Ms | $354,825 | 9 | 2% |
| University of Miss Medical Center | $329,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Pearl River Community College | $324,605 | 2 | n/a |
| North Sunflower Academy PTA | $310,250 | 2 | 61% |
| The Arc Southeast Mississippi | $303,582 | 9 | 9% |
| Edwards Street Fellowship Center Inc | $210,126 | 7 | 4% |
| Latino Action Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 25% |
| Woodlawn United Pentecostal Church | $180,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Reading and Math Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $179,205 | 8 | 0% |
| Baptist Medical & Dental Mission International Inc | $178,891 | 3 | 2% |
| The United Way of Southeast Ms Inc | $177,278 | 7 | 3% |
| Glory House Global Outreach | $163,193 | 3 | 24% |
| Christian Services Inc | $161,162 | 5 | n/a |
| Southern Cross Animal Rescue | $135,000 | 6 | 23% |
| New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary | $125,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ms Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning | $124,800 | 3 | n/a |
| The Jackson Tigers Aau | $115,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Horne Cares Foundation | $111,735 | 2 | 65% |
| Saint Fabian Catholic Parish | $108,390 | 5 | n/a |
| The Arc Pinebelt Region Inc | $106,118 | 8 | 36% |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $101,182 | 7 | n/a |
| Friends After 5 Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Holy Family Homeschool Apostolate Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Abbie Rogers Civitan Camp Endowment Fund | $97,423 | 3 | 17% |
| Main Street Umc Hattiesburg | $95,775 | 8 | n/a |
| Cure Childhood Cancer Inc | $95,000 | 2 | 1% |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $94,391 | 4 | 0% |
| Hattiesburg Tourism Commission | $92,022 | 5 | 5% |
| First Presbyterian Church of Hattiesburg Inc | $86,467 | 3 | n/a |
| Petal Childrens Task Force Inc | $85,624 | 3 | 18% |
| Ekklesia | $84,029 | 6 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt Univ Medical Center | $75,983 | 7 | n/a |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Patrick's Church | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| William Carey University | $70,447 | 4 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart Catholic School | $65,313 | 5 | n/a |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $59,210 | 1 | n/a |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered | $57,531 | 4 | 1% |
| Southern Pines Animal Shelter | $54,990 | 6 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Closet & Pantry | $53,360 | 4 | 9% |
| Friends of Children's Hospital Inc | $52,509 | 1 | 2% |
| Dubard School for Language Disorder | $50,724 | 4 | n/a |
| MD Anderson Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Association of Secretaries of State | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Youth Town of Tennessee Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Youth Empowerment Project | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Florida Emergency Management Assistance Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Davis Education Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Behold Israel | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hogar Albergue para Ninos Jesu | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Columbia Sc | $50,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Hattiesburg Arts Council | $49,800 | 4 | 11% |
| Ms Gulf Coast Community College Fou | $47,100 | 3 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $46,671 | 3 | 0% |
| City of Ruleville | $44,735 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation | $43,035 | 2 | 0% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $42,900 | 5 | n/a |
| Kids Hub | $42,823 | 4 | 2% |
| Pinebelt Christian Women Job Corp | $40,208 | 5 | 21% |
| McCann Memorial Temple | $40,097 | 2 | n/a |
| Jefferson Davis School District | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Heritage Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Empower Mississippi Foundation | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Presbyterian Christian School | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Partnership Foundation Inc | $37,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hattiesburg Public School District Foundation Inc | $36,559 | 1 | 63% |
| Magnolia Speech School | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Oseola McCarty Youth Development Center | $31,913 | 2 | 5% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $30,500 | 4 | 0% |
| United Methodist Church & Its Affiliated Organizations | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Foundation for Mississippi History | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Justice Mission | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Domestic Abuse Family Shelter Inc | $29,797 | 4 | 1% |
| Pine Burr Area Council 304 | $28,946 | 3 | 2% |
| Soma Communities | $28,800 | 4 | n/a |
| United Christian Ministries Inc | $28,491 | 3 | 4% |
| Renters for Recovery | $28,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Jones County Junior College | $27,970 | 2 | n/a |
| Piney Woods Conservation Group | $26,603 | 2 | n/a |
| Lifeline Children's Services Inc | $26,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $25,316 | 3 | n/a |
| United Way of the Big Bend Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Room in the Inn Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alabama Veteran | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Mennonite Disaster Service | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alabama Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Regional Emergency Shelter Team | $25,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Fairview Christian Fellowship | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Al Copeland Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Maui Economic Opportunity Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texsar Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wilderness Refuge Recovery Ministries | $24,533 | 3 | 15% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Wilson Research Foundation | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| First Bridge | $23,260 | 1 | n/a |
| Hattiesburg Civic Chorus and Concert Association Inc | $22,125 | 3 | 2% |
| Heritage Church Inc | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity I | $20,589 | 1 | 10% |
| Heard Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Scarlet Rope Project | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Pca Reformed University Ministries | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rawhide Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Least of These Animal Rescue | $20,000 | 1 | 19% |
| The Pink Ribbon Fund Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 14% |
| Texas Baptist Children's Home Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Association for Guidance Aid Placement and Empathy | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy House Adult & Teen Challenge | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Mississippi Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ribbon of Hope Foundation Incorporated | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Hope Haven of Hancock County Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Together Enhancing Autism Awareness in Mississippi | $19,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Junior Auxiliary of Hattiesburg Mississippi Inc | $18,569 | 2 | 4% |
| McGill Ministries | $17,722 | 1 | n/a |
| Laurel Christian School | $15,786 | 1 | 1% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $15,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lyman Youth Association | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Temple Baptist Church Hattiesburg | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ballet Mississippi Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| St Stephens Catholic Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi's Toughest Kids Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Lily Pad Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Catch-A-Dream Foundation | $13,031 | 2 | 1% |
| Ddembe Inc | $13,029 | 1 | 6% |
| Penelope House Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Care Network Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Carterville Baptist Church | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Joshua Fund | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mississippi Center For Legal Services Corporation | $12,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Beaver Meadow Mb Church | $11,395 | 1 | 8% |
| The North Carolina Literary and His | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mobile Society for Prevention of Cr | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Baddour Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Friends of the Children | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Mississippi Veterans | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Copiah County School District | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hot Coffee Volunteer Fire Departmen | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jasper Co Emergency Management | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Decatur Volunteer Fire Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Rescue | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Covington County Board of Superviso | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunnybrook Children's Home Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Lillian Academy | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Empowering Doves Corp | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Afternoon Adventure Learning Center | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Lawrence County Historical Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Real Life Outreach Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Under His Wings Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Santuario de Animales San Francisco de Asis Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Mississippi Libraries Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Immerse Arkansas | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heidelberg Volunteer Fire Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sja Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Covington County Hospital | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Way There LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mossville Volunteer Fire Dept | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seminary Elementary School | $9,990 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Mize Volunteer Fire Dept | $9,879 | 1 | n/a |
| The Awakening | $9,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $9,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Town of Prentiss | $9,784 | 1 | n/a |
| Hub City Humane Society | $9,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Family Restoration Ministries | $9,440 | 1 | 4% |
| Lake Eddins Volunteer Fire Dept | $9,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Stringer Volunteer Fire Dept | $9,335 | 1 | n/a |
| Taylorsville Chamber of Commerce | $8,846 | 1 | n/a |
| Keep Magee Beautiful | $8,600 | 1 | n/a |
| E3 Partners Ministry | $8,527 | 1 | n/a |
| United Christian Academy Inc | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Taylorsville Attendance Center | $8,380 | 1 | n/a |
| Polkville Volunteer Fire Dept | $8,143 | 1 | n/a |
| Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Century Club Charities Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Center Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mississippi Spay and Neuter (Span) | $7,933 | 1 | n/a |
| Monterey Volunteer Fire Department | $7,400 | 1 | 11% |
| Restore Hattiesburg | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Taylorsville Police Department | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Mississippi | $6,877 | 1 | n/a |
| Southeast Mississippi Rural Health Initiative Inc | $6,745 | 1 | 0% |
| Dwell | $6,491 | 1 | 7% |
| Hope Clinic Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Community Collective | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Newton County Sheriff's Office | $5,889 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Forest Fire Department | $5,738 | 1 | n/a |
| Kuntry Kidz Youth Foundation | $5,718 | 1 | 19% |
| Forrest County Agricultural High School Alumni Association | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Main Street Magee | $5,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Breakthrough Community Services Inc | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Sylarena Volunteer Fire Dept | $5,183 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pinebelt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 120 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 120.
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.
Mississippi Power Foundation IncMS40.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Ergon Foundation Inc · Rosewood Foundation · The United Way of Southeast Ms Inc · Mapp Family Foundation · Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Warren A Hood Jr Family Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Cadence Bank Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee
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.
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About Pinebelt Foundation
- How much does Pinebelt Foundation give?
- Pinebelt Foundation reported 133 itemized grants totaling $5,215,127, out of $5,696,706 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pinebelt Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Religion (25%), Education (7%).
- Who are Pinebelt Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Extra Table Feeds Inc ($1.4M), Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Foundation ($1.3M), R3sm Inc ($1.3M).
- Does Pinebelt Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pinebelt Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mississippi Power Foundation Inc, Ergon Foundation Inc, Rosewood Foundation.
- Where is Pinebelt Foundation based?
- Pinebelt Foundation is based in MS.
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