· Private foundation
The Riley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MERIDIAN RESTORATIONS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $4,000 |
| MS METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES | $4,000 |
| MERIDIAN RAILS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| MS JR MISS PROGRAM | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +31%
- MSMS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDAITONone grant, 2019 · $150k
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
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 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Riley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Riley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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