How much does The Pruet Foundation give?

The Pruet Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $571,167 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Pruet Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (35%), Education (18%), Human Services (12%).

Who are The Pruet Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Baptist Health Foundation Inc ($248k), Jackson Academy Inc ($221k), The Redeemers School ($220k).

Does The Pruet Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Pruet 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 Pruet Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ergon Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Mississippi, Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee.

Where is The Pruet Foundation based?

The Pruet Foundation is based in MS.

The Pruet Foundation

The Pruet Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Pruet Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$571k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.2MEducation$601kHuman Services$409kReligion$339kHousing & Shelter$145kPhilanthropy$117kCommunity Improvement$81kArts & Culture$62kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $16k
$10k–50k17 grants · $299k
$50k–250k4 grants · $257k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UMMC CHILDREN'S CANCER CLINIC RENOVATION	$80,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MS	$66,667
UMMC (MANNING FAMILY FUND)	$60,000
ST DOMINICS HEALTH SERVICE FOUNDATION	$50,000
STEWPOT	$45,000
WESLEY BIBLICAL SEMINARY	$33,000
LEFLEUR EAST FOUNDATION	$31,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION - BURN CENTER	$30,000
BATSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$20,000
NORTHMINISTER BAPTIST CHURCH	$20,000
MOTHERS MILK BANK OF MS	$15,000
SHOWER POWER	$15,000
OPERATION SHOESTRING	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
REDEEMER SCHOOL	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.8M · 39 repeat orgs$448k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.8M

$301k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+27%

Still filing today

54%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

BH
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $248k · revenue +179%
JA
JACKSON ACADEMY INC
5× · 2017–2023 · $221k · revenue +24%
TR
THE REDEEMERS SCHOOL
7× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +361%

Funded once

UT
UMMC THE MIND CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $70k
MF
MANNING FAMILY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -92%
SA
SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +1%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Mission Mississippi

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.

Civil Rights

Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

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…

Religion

Mississippi Methodist Senior Services Inc

Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.

Human Services

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems Inc

Mississippi baptist health systems, inc.'s foundation and tradition is its christian healing ministry. the mission is to serve the community through continuously improving quality medical care and effective use of education and technology…

Health

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center Inc

The mission of mississippi baptist medical center, inc. is to serve the community through continuously improving quality medical care and effective use of education and technology in a personal and compassionate environment.

Health

Mississippi Methodist Hospital Rehabilitation Center Inc

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…

Health

Baptist Medical Center - Leake Inc

The mission of baptist medical center - leake, inc. is to improve the health of the communities it serves by providing excellent health care services by continually improving the quality of patient care and utilizing resources efficiently…

Health

Baptist Memorial Hospital- North Mississippi Inc

Baptist memorial hospital-north mississippi, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.

Health

Hospice of Jackson

Henry ford allegiance hospice provides quality health care to the terminally ill and support to their families. the organization provides members of the general public a comprehensive healthcare program to meet the physical, emotional,…

Human Services

Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy

Health

The Methodist Hospital Foundation

Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…

Health

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Inc

Inspired by the vision of st. francis and in the tradition of the roman catholic church, we extend the healing ministry of jesus christ to god's people, especially those most in need. we call forth all who serve in this healthcare…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hope House of Hospitality. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/31

Grantees still filing

23/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,728,441Education$648,000Health$352,500Human Services$243,500Housing & Shelter$242,500Philanthropy$40,000Arts & Culture$37,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Ergon Foundation IncMS44.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Walker Foundation · Telos Foundation Inc · St Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital · Regions Foundation · Make a Difference Foundation · James W Hood Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pruet Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pruet Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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