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South Delta Planning & Development District

Planning and development districts were created to address the diverse needs of the residents in rural areas.

$7.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Employment$59MEducation$5.0MHealth$972kCrime & Legal$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $339k
  • $250k+7 grants · $6.5M
$367,514
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EMP$2,497,319
WARREN-WASHINGTON-ISSAQUENA-SHARKEY$1,014,515
SUNFLOWER-HUMPHREYS COUNTIES$937,032
NORTHWEST MS COMM COLLEGE$795,565
BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI$572,432
MISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY C$367,514
COAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$362,714
MID-STATE OPPORTUNITY INC$236,654
MS HOSPITAL ASSOC HEALTH RESEARCH$102,273
Individual grant recipient$31,857
NORTH MISSISSIPPI RURAL LEGAL SERVI$7,941
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 29%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $576k → 29%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $572k → 29%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $565k → 29%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $538k → 29%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $537k → 29%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $522k → 29%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $499k → 29%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $489k → 29%BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTI: $483k → 29%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62M · 13 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$62M
$2.8M

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WC
    Warren-Washington-Issaquena-Sharkey Community Action Agency
    9× · 2017–2025 · $7.7M · revenue +1%
  • SC
    SUNFLOWER-HUMPHREYS CTYS PROG INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +37%
  • BC
    BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.8M · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOLMES COMMUNITY COLLEG
    one grant, 2021 · $2.8M
  • SP
    SOUTH PANOLA SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

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 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EMP: $25,879,895 · OtherMISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EMPMISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY C: $9,494,495 · OtherMISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY CWarren-Washington-Issaquena-Sharkey Community Action Agency: $7,690,614 · OtherWarren-Washington-Issaquena-Sharkey Community Action AgencyHOLMES COMMUNITY COLLEG: $2,801,175 · OtherEMI STAFFING SERVCES: $2,664,223 · OtherCOAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2,234,156 · Other+5 more: $2,150,419 · OtherSUNFLOWER-HUMPHREYS CTYS PROG INC: $5,730,728 · Community ImprovementSUNFLOWER…BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $4,781,915 · Human ServicesMID-STATE OPPORTUNITY INC: $1,679,385 · Housing & ShelterNorth MS Rural Legal Services Inc: $84,704 · Crime & Legal
Other$52,914,977Community Improvement$5,730,728Human Services$4,781,915Housing & Shelter$1,679,385Crime & Legal$84,704

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWarren-Washington-Issaquena-Sharkey Community Action Agency: $7,690,614 over 9y, 16% of budgetSUNFLOWER-HUMPHREYS CTYS PROG INC: $5,730,728 over 9y, 16% of budgetBOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $4,781,915 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetMID-STATE OPPORTUNITY INC: $1,679,385 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetMHA HEALTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $971,692 over 9y, 8.0% of budgetNorth MS Rural Legal Services Inc: $84,704 over 8y, 0.6% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Warren-Washington-Issaquena-Sharkey Community Action Agency ↗
  • Who funds SUNFLOWER-HUMPHREYS CTYS PROG INC ↗
  • Who funds BOLIVAR COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-STATE OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MHA HEALTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds North MS Rural Legal Services Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization South Delta Planning & Development District funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Delta Planning & Development District. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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