· Public charity
United Way of South Mississippi
United way leads positive change that transforms our community and improves people's lives in our impact area.
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 $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $226k
- $250k+1 grant · $402k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTH MS | $402,226 |
| CASA OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI | $42,927 |
| DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONDOLLY PARTON'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $34,533 |
| HANCOCK RESOURCE CENTER | $25,038 |
| MOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE | $25,036 |
| HANCOCK COUNTY HRA | $25,027 |
| THE NOURSHING PLACE | $18,500 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL PHARMACY | $15,047 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTH MS | $15,019 |
| MANNA MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| GULF COAST CENTER FOR NON-VIOLENCE | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER AT USM | $9,072 |
| BOAT PEOPLE SOS | $7,548 |
| GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,116 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING ASSOCIAT OF BILOXI INC6× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +42%
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GULF COAST INC7× · 2017–2024 · $379k · revenue +91%
- HRHANCOCK RESOURCE CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $305k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- LBLONG BEACH SCHOOL DISTRICT2× · 2018–2020 · $33k
- HCHANCOCK COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCYone grant, 2023 · $25k
- BBBACK BAY MISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +91%
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.
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
Administration of federal, state and local awards and grants for the poverty sector of a 7 county area in alabama, providing headstart education, food, shelter, maintenance, and weatherization programs.
It is the mission of housing first, inc. to secure resources and assets, which lead to community planning to end homelessness through advocacy and community collaboration.
The organization provides family centered, community oriented and comprehensive health services to the people in mound bayou, ms and the surrounding area.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity mississippi capital area brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
Providing educational and other assistance to low income persons in bolivar county, ms and surrounding areas
Mississippi gulf coast chamber of commerce, inc., a mississippi non-profit corporation (the "chamber") connects, informs, advocates and develops. the chamber is a membership organization that fosters leadership and the advancement of the…
To operate a head start and early head start program for children and families in mississippi.
Gulf coast family counseling agency was designed to strenghten family life in our community. we provide affordable, professional counseling services to individuals, couples and families seeking to overcome life's disruptive or disabling…
Assist economically disadvantaged persons in urban and rural communities of marion-winston county, alabama
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Vincent De Paul Community Pharmacy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES HOUSING ASSOCIAT OF BILOXI INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social and Community Services ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Gulf Coast ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BACK BAY MISSION ↗
- Who funds LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLIMB COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CASA of Harrison and Stone Counties ↗
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: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of South Mississippi 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.