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Thomas S Elmore Foundation at a glance

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Thomas S Elmore 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.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$111kEducation$29kHealth$20kArts & Culture$16kYouth Development$12kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
$13,338
Median grant
1
States reached
$179k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$63,000
VARIOUS$13,338
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY$2,500
SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST JUDE: $1k → 17%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%REGIONAL REHAB CENTER: $6k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $9k → 15%ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $19k → 19%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $63k → 22%NATIONAL JUNIOR AUXILLARY FOUNDATIO: $7k → 27%GRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI: $15k → 29%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%FIRST METHODIST CHURCH: $8k → 15%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $24k → 22%NATIONAL JUNIOR AUXILLARY FOUNDATIO: $5k → 27%DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 29%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 15%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $23k → 22%DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 29%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%VARIOUS: $13k → 22%DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 29%VARIOUS OTHERS: $2k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $13k → 22%DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 29%FRIENDS OF THE LEE COUNTY LIBRAY: $1k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHUCH: $12k → 22%LEE COUNTY LIBRARY: $2k → 14%VARIOUS OTHERS: $8k → 22%VARIOUS OTHERS: $8k → 22%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $7k → 22%VARIOUS: $6k → 22%VARIOUS OTHERS: $6k → 22%VARIOUS OTHERS: $4k → 22%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 22%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4k → 22%VARIOUS OTHERS: $3k → 22%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHUCH: $3k → 22%OLD WAVERLY JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $1k → 22%VARIOUS OTHERS: $669 → 22%OLD WAVERY JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $500 → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251k · 9 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +222% since the first grant, against +85% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$251k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+222%
+85%

Still filing today

22%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $139k
  • VO
    VARIOUS OTHERS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $31k
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    3× · 2018–2020 · $23k

Funded once

  • AC
    ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • GM
    GRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • FM
    FIRST METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
3/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $139,198 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHVARIOUS OTHERS: $31,438 · OtherVARIOUS OTHERSFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $23,240 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHVARIOUS: $19,738 · OtherVARIOUSANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $19,350 · OtherANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOLGRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL JUNIOR AUXILLARY FOUNDATIO: $12,160 · Other+10 more: $40,975 · Other+10 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED: $3,500 · HealthTHE SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$301,099Health$3,500Human Services$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED ↗
  • Who funds THE SANCTUARY HOSPICE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MISSISSIPPI LIBRARIES FRIENDS OF THE LEE COUNTY LIBRARY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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