· Private foundation
The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 41 grants below total $3,330,167 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,720,167 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $390,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $453k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $930k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $1,150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL CENTER | $766,667 |
| MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| ST DOMINIC HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION-USA | $100,000 |
| PATTERSON SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY - OLE MISS | $50,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| PARK PLACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC | $40,000 |
| CHRIST COVENANT SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CENTURY CLUB CHARITIES | $35,000 |
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.
31 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +41%
- SDSt Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $540k · revenue +26%
- MCMississippi College3× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- NSNEW STAGE THEATERone grant, 2020 · $200k
- SAST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $100k
- MRMETHODIST REHABILITATION CENTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
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…
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.
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…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.
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…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridge Builders Leadership Initiative. 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 61 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 UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Dominic Health Services Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PARK PLACE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURY CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BUT GOD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JACKSON FUTBOL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI FUTBOL CLUB ↗
- Who funds BIBLICAL COUNSELING AND TRAINING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT NURSES ↗
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: Ergon Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Feild Co-Operative Association · Make a Difference Foundation · Walker Foundation · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family Foundation · Hf McCarty Jr Family Foundation · T H Etheridge Trust · The Lifeshare Foundation · Dorsey J Barefield Charitable Trust
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.
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