· Private foundation
The Paul and Sherry Broadhead 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 $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $988k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERIDIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| FREE CLINIC OF MERIDIAN INC | $100,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI'S TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $85,000 |
| WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $85,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OF MISSISSIPPI | $75,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $65,000 |
| HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC | $52,500 |
| UMCOR | $50,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 76% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMeridian Community College Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +73%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $655k · revenue +145%- WHWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $646k · revenue +111%
Funded once
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +70%- EEASTERSEALSone grant, 2017 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
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 organization provides funding for medical research, educational programs for physicians and others as well as educational assistance for medical students. in addition, the organization provides grants to medical professionals whose…
Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center
MCIR is an independent nonprofit news organization, tasked with educating and informing the people of Mississippi with in-depth, fact-based, nonpartisan information. MCIR focuses on institutionalized injustice and generational poverty.
To publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political, and systemic challenges facing all mississipians and their communities.
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 organization's mission is to protect, promote and preserve mississippi's rich sports history while operating the mississippi sports hall of fame & museum.
We remove barriers to opportunity through citizen action so all mississippians can flourish.
Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment
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 develop and construct a museum to benefit, support, perform the charitable functions of, or to carry out the charitable purposes, of the mississippi children's museum. ftc obtained the status of a qualified active low-income community…
The maritime museum will tell the story of the state's 300 year maritime history and will serve as a repository to archive, preserve, and display maritime artifacts and historical documents as well as provide extensive educational programs…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 44 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 Meridian Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF MERIDIAN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUDERDALE OUTREACH & VOL EFFORT ↗
- Who funds Meridian Council for the Arts ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST MISSISSIPPIINC ↗
- Who funds STATE GAMES OF MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN LITTLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI'S TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds THE JIMMIE RODGERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI ↗
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: The Riley Foundation · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of East Mississippi · The Hardy Poindexter Graham Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · William Robert Baird Charitable Trust · Anderson Regional Medical Center · Jackson-Newell Foundation Inc · United Way of East Mississippiinc · Gv Sonny Montgomery Foundation · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Mississippi Food Network Inc
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 Paul and Sherry Broadhead 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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