· Private foundation
The Dick Molpus 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PARENTS CAMPAIGN - RESEARCH & EDUCATION | $300,000 |
| NATIONAL PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $182,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI | $72,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI TODAY | $50,000 |
| THE 18TH WARD | $25,000 |
| LEGACY EDUCATION & COMMUNITY EMP | $20,000 |
| OPEN ARMS INC | $10,000 |
| POLLYS PAWS INC | $10,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| PRAIRIE BELT BLUES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| 2ND CHANCE MS INC | $5,000 |
| WEST POINT CLAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,000 |
| REMO'S RESCUE | $1,000 |
| CLEAN UP JACKSON INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +8% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- DSDEEP SOUTH TODAY7× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue ×17
- 1W18TH WARD6× · 2020–2025 · $184k · revenue ×46 · 34% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- PCPARENTS CAMPAIGN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WILKINSON CENTERone grant, 2023 · $20k
- T1THE 18TH WARDone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Seeking to build relationships with diverse institutions around the state to build the power to effect political change in a non-partisan way while strengthening the institutions we engage with to help execute their institution's mission…
Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.
The foundation was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.
To promote mississippi arts and entertainment.
To publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political, and systemic challenges facing all mississipians and their communities.
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.
Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center
Mississippi gulf coast chamber of commerce, inc., a mississippi non-profit corporation (the "chamber") connects, informs, advocates and develops. the chamber is a membership organization that fosters leadership and the advancement of the…
The mission of the mississippi main street association is to be a catalyst for the preservation and economic revitalization of mississippi's historic downtowns and districts.
Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.
Mississippi volunteer lawyers project enables volunteer attorneys to provide equal access to justice for mississippians of low income and limited means through high quality pro bono legal assistance.
To promote and advocate public health in the state of mississippi through professional development and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the most unlike its peers is Phil Hardin Foundation. 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 19 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) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 96 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 NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds 18TH WARD ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 2ND CHANCE MS ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE BELT BLUES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds KOSCIUSKO FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE MCCLEAN FLETCHER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Impact America ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Walker Foundation · Ergon Foundation Inc · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · C Spire Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Bill McCarty III Foundation
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 The Dick Molpus Foundation 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.
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.