Mississippi · Private foundation
Regions Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $575k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Regions Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 20 | $575k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $430k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $765k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $578k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $483k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $640k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $795k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $670k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great City Ms Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Mission First Inc | $467,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Breakthru Ministries | $300,000 | 8 | n/a |
| French Camp Academy | $275,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth Inc | $220,000 | 8 | 1% |
| St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Operation Shoestring Inc | $185,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Magnolia Speech School | $170,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Stewpot Community Services Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Mens Christian Association | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great City Ms Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Mission First Inc | $467,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Breakthru Ministries | $300,000 | 8 | n/a |
| French Camp Academy | $275,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth Inc | $220,000 | 8 | 1% |
| St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Operation Shoestring Inc | $185,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Magnolia Speech School | $170,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Stewpot Community Services Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Mens Christian Association | $105,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tougaloo College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mississippi Children's Museum | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| RePublic Schools Jackson Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mission Mississippi | $90,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Youth Excitement Team Inc | $87,500 | 4 | 14% |
| Jackson Leadership Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Mississippi History | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Center for Violence Prevention Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Deliver Me Senior Support Services | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Regions Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 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 · Ergon Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · The Pruet Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Fountain Family Foundation · St Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital · Walker Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Telos Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Regions Foundation
- How much does Regions Foundation give?
- Regions Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $575,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Regions Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Youth Development (16%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Regions Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Great City Ms Foundation ($500k), Mission First Inc ($468k), Breakthru Ministries ($300k).
- Does Regions Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Regions Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Regions Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Ergon Foundation Inc, Selby and Richard McRae Foundation.
- Where is Regions Foundation based?
- Regions Foundation is based in MS.
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