Mississippi · 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.
- $713k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Dick Molpus Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 21 | $640k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $666k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $799k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $508k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $455k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $650k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $447k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $186k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep South Today | $650,000 | 7 | 9% |
| 18th Ward | $183,750 | 6 | 34% |
| Foundation for Mississippi History | $175,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Open Arms Inc | $86,639 | 3 | 51% |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $73,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mississippi Center for Justice | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc | $51,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Wilson Research Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| 2nd Chance Ms | $25,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Prairie Belt Blues Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dick Molpus Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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 · 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
How this is measured
About The Dick Molpus Foundation
- How much does The Dick Molpus Foundation give?
- The Dick Molpus Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $713,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dick Molpus Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (42%), Education (30%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are The Dick Molpus Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Deep South Today ($650k), 18th Ward ($184k), Foundation for Mississippi History ($175k).
- Does The Dick Molpus Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dick Molpus 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 The Dick Molpus Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund, Selby and Richard McRae Foundation.
- Where is The Dick Molpus Foundation based?
- The Dick Molpus Foundation is based in MS.
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