· Private foundation
T H Etheridge Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $389k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN | $225,000 |
| NORTHMINSTER BAPTIST CHURCH | $164,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,730 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $25,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MS CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| MS MUSEUM OF ART | $3,000 |
| STEWPOT | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAN CENTER DEPT OR ONCOLOGY | $2,500 |
| BAYSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH-FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE FIELD | $2,000 |
| OPERA MISSISSIPPI | $1,600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MSMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +50%
- NANAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +72%
- TPTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +154%
Funded once
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +30%- HBHARMONY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $3k
- RMREVITALIZE MISSISSIPPI INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -85%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Health care foundation of north mississippi is operated exclusively for the purpose of raising, receiving, and administering funds (for medical, scientific, educational and charitable purposes), to assist hospital and non-profit…
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Revitalize Mississippi Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTURY CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Eudora Welty Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Ojai Raptor Center ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Walker Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Luckyday Foundation Trustmark National Bank Trustee · Old Ladies Home Association
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization T H Etheridge Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.