· Private foundation
The Riley Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $253k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,870,863 |
| MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $529,000 |
| MS ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | $129,000 |
| MERIDIAN ART ASSOCIATION | $64,000 |
| MULTI-COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICE | $60,000 |
| LOVE INC | $20,000 |
| FREE CLINIC OF MERIDIAN | $14,000 |
| MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| MERIDIAN NAVAL AIR STATION | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF EAST MS | $4,000 |
| STATE GAMES OF MISSISSIPPI | $4,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $4,000 |
| MS METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES | $4,000 |
| MERIDIAN RAILS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| MERIDIAN RESTORATIONS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
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, $468k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, 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.
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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 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; $138k 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 Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $2.3M · revenue +73%
- MCMulti-County Community Service Agency Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $406k · revenue +46%
- RMRUSH MEDICAL FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- MAMS ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTERone grant, 2019 · $529k
- ARANDERSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $206k · revenue +33%
- MSMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAITONone grant, 2019 · $150k
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 contract services that are performed by mentally impaired persons. they are assigned miscellaneous work projects by area businesses. the primary purpose is to provide these adults with monetary income and most…
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 promote mississippi arts and entertainment.
Development of cultural and artistic enlightenment
The museum of the mississippi delta, founded in 1969, is at the crossroads of delta history and art. our extensive collection includes artifacts related to agriculture, native america, regional military history and one of the delta's most…
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…
GMHC was organized to provide family centered, community oriented, and comprehensive health services to patients in Meridian and surrounding areas.
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…
Mississippi heritage trust works to save and renew places meaningful to mississippians and their history.
Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications
The missions is to provide quality, comprehensive primary and preventative healthcare and social services to the communities we serve. We are committed to serving the uninsured and the under insured.
The organization encourages children and adults alike to explore and learn in a fun environment, to instill the love of science, of operating, building and playing with model trains. this is accomplished through admission to the museum,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aldersgate Retirement Community Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feed By Faith. 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.
31 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. 31 of the 65 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 MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Meridian Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI APPA INC ↗
- Who funds Multi-County Community Service Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUSH MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Meridian Art Association ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARE LODGE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF MERIDIAN INC ↗
- Who funds LAUDERDALE OUTREACH & VOL EFFORT ↗
- Who funds THE JIMMIE RODGERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED BY FAITH ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STATE GAMES OF MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE VILLAGE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Meridian Restoration Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI JUNIOR MISS PROGRAM IN ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN LITTLE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ALDERSGATE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC ↗
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: Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · The Paul and Sherry Broadhead Foundation · Phil Hardin Foundation · Community Foundation of East Mississippi · United Way of East Mississippiinc · The Hardy Poindexter Graham Foundation · William Robert Baird Charitable Trust · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · Mississippi Food Network Inc · Anderson Regional Medical Center · Gv Sonny Montgomery Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 Riley 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.
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