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W a Taylor Foundation at a glance

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W a Taylor 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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.7MHealth$375kEducation$180kReligion$80kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$24kCivil Rights$18kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$125,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 10%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 31 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
27

Total granted

$2.0M
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+5%

Still filing today

19%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • MM
    MS MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +29%
  • MC
    MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +31%
  • GE
    GRACE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MISSISSIPPI
    one grant, 2023 · $225k
  • WO
    WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • TM
    THE MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -87%
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

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.

1
Mission Mississippi

To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.

Civil Rights
2
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…

Religion
3
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Mississippi Inc

Our ministry vision is to reach Every Child Every Nation Every Day. We teach children the Gospel of Jesus Christ and disciple them in the Word of God.

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4
Mississippi Valley Montessori School Inc

Mississsippi valley montessori provides an authentic montessori environment for children rooted in the fundamental tenets of the montessori three-year model.

Education
5
Foundation for Mississippi History

To conduct fundraising efforts to help support and promote the activities, programs and projects of the mississippi department of archives and history.

Philanthropy
6
University of Mississippi Medical Center Research Development Foundation

Support the research activities of the university of mississippi medical center

Health
7
Mississippi Maritime Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Catholic Memphis Urban Schools Inc

Providing oversight and assistance to the catholic diocese of memphis in its mission to effectively establish, develop, maintain, and actively pursue the education of children in the memphis urban areas, regardless of religious…

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9
Mississippi State Medical Association Foundation Inc

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…

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10
Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce Inc

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…

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11
Jobs for Mississippi Graduates Inc

Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.

—
12
Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jackson Heart Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 60 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S OF MISSISSIPPI: $1,650,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S OF MISSISSIPPICHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MISSISSIPPI: $225,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MISSISSIPPIST DOMINIC HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM: $100,000 · Other+45 more: $326,750 · Other+45 moreUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $125,000 · EducationLOUISVILLE WINSTON ED FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $7,500 · EducationJACKSON HEART FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationMS MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $7,500 · Human ServicesSTARKVILLE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $5,000 · HealthEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI: $2,500 · HealthMISSISSIPPI BLOOD SERVICES INC: $2,500 · HealthGRACE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 · Religion
Other$2,301,750Education$147,500Arts & Culture$21,000Human Services$12,500Health$10,000Religion$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMS MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetLOUISVILLE WINSTON ED FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRACE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HEART FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTARKVILLE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 691 PUSHMATAHA AREA TRUST FUND: $3,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetEMPOWER MISSISSIPPI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI BLOOD SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 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 UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MS MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISVILLE WINSTON ED FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HEART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STARKVILLE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗

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.

Ergon Foundation IncWalker FoundationVan Devender Family F…Community Foundation …Sam E & Burnice C Wit…Howard & Mary Eliza M…Feild Co-Operative As…Mike and Janie Jarvis…The Pruet FoundationT H Etheridge TrustC Spire FoundationDunn-French Foundation
Ergon Foundation IncMS26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ergon Foundation Inc · Walker Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Sam E & Burnice C Wittel Foundation · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family Foundation · The Pruet Foundation · T H Etheridge Trust · C Spire Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 60 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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