· Public charity
Women's Foundation of Mississippi
To improve the lives of women & girls by promoting social change & economic self-sufficiency through advocacy & strategic grantmaking.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $55,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $142,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $307k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Women's Foundation of Mississippi’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MS; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 30 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 FY2023, 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
MAGNOLIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +275%
SPRING INITIATIVE INC3× · 2019–2022 · $105k · revenue +7%
2ND CHANCE MS4× · 2017–2020 · $105k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CICONVERGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $136k · revenue ×13
- JSJACKSON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- DSDELTA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
Prevention of child abuse
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.
Employment and training agency- help displaced migrant and seasonal farmworkers enter unsubsidized employment, coupled with the assistance of supportive services and farm ownership training
In alliance with Mississippi universities and other related non-profit entities, Delta Health Alliance, Inc.'s mission is to advocate, develop, and implement programs to improve the healthcare and educational needs of the most depressed…
Promoting northeast mississippi for industrial growth.
Quitman county development organization exists to serve communities in the mississippi delta by empowering individuals, families, and organizations to improve teh quality of life in the delta regions.
We mobilize and organize people and resources to improve the well-being, quality of life and political power of marginalized mississippians.
Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Center for Justice and the most unlike its peers is Exchange Club Center for Prevention of Child Abuse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 55 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 MAGNOLIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds CONVERGE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds 2ND CHANCE MS ↗
- Who funds CARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Exchange Club Center for Prevention of Child Abuse ↗
- Who funds Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLMES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds ST GABRIEL MERCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION ↗
- Who funds We2gether Creating Change ↗
- Who funds SHE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · 2nd Chance Ms · Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation · Woodward Hines Education Foundation · Mississippi Food Network Inc · Mississippi Community College Foundation · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · American Heart Association Inc
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 Women's Foundation of 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.
- National Florence Crittenton Mission — 24% of income from government
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.