· Public charity
Robert M Hearin Support Foundation
To provide support through grants to specified educational institutions and public charities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $933k
- $250k+4 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $8,681,590 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,987,500 |
| MS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,025,000 |
| MS COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| MILLSAPS COLLEGE | $216,689 |
| DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| MS UNIV FOR WOMEN | $110,000 |
| JACKSON STATE UNIV | $100,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| UNIV OF SOUTHERN MS | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $81,425 |
| TOUGALOO COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| WILLIAM CAREY UNIV | $50,000 |
| MS OPERA | $43,670 |
| MS VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $37,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Millsaps College6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +9%- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $710k · revenue +43%
- WCWilliam Carey University6× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +60%
Funded once
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert M Hearin Support Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert M Hearin Support Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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