Mississippi · Public charity
Tri-State Educational Foundation
The foundation provides funding for educational scholarships and grants to qualified applicants.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $299k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,930
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $123,801
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Tri-State Educational Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $299k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $616k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $219k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $327k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $182k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $495k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $580k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $405k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta State University Foundation | $1,265,670 | 9 | 7% |
| Boys and Girls Club | $215,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Blue Mountain Christian University | $82,839 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Southern Mississippi | $40,909 | 2 | n/a |
| Belhaven University | $35,430 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mississippi College | $24,557 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Tri-State Educational Foundation
- How much does Tri-State Educational Foundation give?
- Tri-State Educational Foundation reported 9 itemized grants totaling $299,474, out of $1,524,786 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tri-State Educational Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Youth Development (7%), Philanthropy (0%).
- Who are Tri-State Educational Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Delta State University Foundation ($1.3M), Boys and Girls Club ($215k), Blue Mountain Christian University ($83k).
- Does Tri-State Educational Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tri-State Educational Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Tri-State Educational Foundation based?
- Tri-State Educational Foundation is based in MS.
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