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· 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.

$797k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$1.4MHealth$997kEmployment$390kHuman Services$352kYouth Development$100kCivil Rights$57kPhilanthropy$47kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $772,777, the rows itemized in this filing. The $797,477 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $338k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $435k
$45,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$73,334
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY$73,334
MS VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$73,332
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION$65,000
DELTA HEALTH SYSTEM$50,000
EXCEL BY 5$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MINORITY HEALTH$50,000
MS BLACK WOMEN'S ROUNDTABLE$47,777
SIX DIMENSIONS CONSULTING LLC$45,000
TOUGALOO COLLEGE$40,000
GLOBAL GATEWAYS$40,000
REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE$40,000
TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI$30,000
EBONY PEARLS FOUNDATION$20,000
INSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $352k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%SINGLE STOP: $20k → 17%TUTWILER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $18k → 31%WE2GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $8k → 32%BLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION: $15k → 36%THE SHE PROJECT: $27k → 23%TUTWILER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $8k → 31%ST GABRIEL MERCY CENTER INC: $20k → 29%ST GABRIEL MERCY CENTER INC: $10k → 29%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $60k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $33k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $30k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $25k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $15k → 23%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $15k → 23%ECUMENICAL COALITION FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES: $25k → 23%MIDTOWN PARTNERS: $25k → 23%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Women's Foundation of Mississippi’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 91%.

Women's Foundation of Mississippilessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 34 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$3.1M
$637k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+39%

Still filing today

53%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $478k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MAGNOLIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +275%
  • 2ND CHANCE MS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $105k · revenue +48%
  • SPRING INITIATIVE INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $105k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CI
    CONVERGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $136k · revenue ×13
  • JS
    JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • MD
    MISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY C
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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
Center for Mississippi Healthpolicy
Health
2
Delta Childrens Advocacy Center

Delta Childrens Advocacy Centers mission is to respond to child abuse in the Mississippi Delta by serving and nurturing children and non-offending caregivers through a trauma-informed multidisciplinary approach.

Crime & Legal
3
Delta Health Alliance Inc

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…

Health
4
Central Mississippi Civic Improvement Association Inc

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.

Health
5
Ms Childrens Advocacy Center Inc

Prevention of child abuse

Civil Rights
6
Our Mississippi Foundation
Community Improvement
7
Mississippi Delta Council F0R Workers Opportunities Inc

Employment and training agency- help displaced migrant and seasonal farmworkers enter unsubsidized employment, coupled with the assistance of supportive services and farm ownership training

Employment
8
Working Together Mississippi

Seeking to build relationships with diverse institutions around the state to build the power to effect political change in a non-partisan way while strengthening the institutions we engage with to help execute their institution's mission…

Education
9
Mississippi County Arkansas Economic Opportunity Commission Inc

Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity

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10
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.

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11
Jackson County Economic Development Foundation Inc

Improving the economic development opportunities of jackson county, mississippi by unifying planning, economic & industrial development, and marketing activities in the county.

Community Improvement
12
Mississippi Economic Council

To build a sense of statewide business community. as the state chamber of commerce, the organization serves as a meaningful voice on issues and initiatives focusing on the state's future in education, workforce, business climate and image.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Center for Justice; 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.
05the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $225,000 · OtherCOAHOMA COMMUNITY COLLEGEPEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $181,840 · OtherPEARL RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGEMeridian Community College: $155,000 · OtherMeridian Community CollegeMISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $133,334 · OtherMISSISSIPPI DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGEHINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $123,683 · OtherDELTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $113,334 · OtherItawamba Community College: $110,000 · OtherEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $110,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY: $95,000 · OtherDELTA HEALTH CENTER INC: $82,500 · OtherJONES COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE: $80,000 · OtherSTRATEGIC SOLUTIONS FOR FAMILIES INC: $80,000 · Other+23 more: $855,832 · Other+23 more2ND CHANCE MS: $105,000 · Education2ND CHANCE MSSPRING INITIATIVE INC: $105,000 · EducationSPRING INITIATI…ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · EducationALCORN STATE UN…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF M…Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc: $60,000 · EducationMississippi Gul…EXCEL BY 5 INC: $50,000 · EducationEXCEL BY 5 INCNORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationNORTHWEST MISSI…Tougaloo College: $40,000 · EducationTougaloo Colleg…TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $177,500 · Human ServicesTEEN HEALTH…Mississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesMississippi…ST GABRIEL MERCY CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesST GABRIEL …NATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION: $30,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FL…We2gether Creating Change: $27,500 · Human ServicesWe2gether C…SHE PROJECT INC: $27,000 · Human ServicesSHE PROJECT…Ecumenical Coalition for Women and Families: $25,000 · Human ServicesEcumenical …MIDTOWN PARTNERS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesMIDTOWN PAR…Tutwiler Community Education Center: $25,000 · Human ServicesTutwiler Co…SINGLE STOP USA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBLACK PARENTS UNITED FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAGNOLIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $212,500 · Crime & LegalExchange Club Center for Prevention of Child Abuse: $75,000 · Crime & LegalMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $25,000 · Crime & LegalCONVERGE INC: $135,911 · HealthCARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $85,000 · HealthSIX DIMENSIONS: $45,000 · HealthInstitute for the Advancement of Minority Health: $102,500 · PhilanthropyNORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyEBONY PEARLS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $7,400 · PhilanthropyMISSISSIPPI COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $57,777 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $20,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $12,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,345,523Education$555,000Human Services$437,000Crime & Legal$312,500Health$265,911Philanthropy$169,900Civil Rights$89,777

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAGNOLIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $212,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetTEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $177,500 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetCONVERGE INC: $135,911 over 1y, 19% of budget2ND CHANCE MS: $105,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetSPRING INITIATIVE INC: $105,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetInstitute for the Advancement of Minority Health: $102,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetCARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $85,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSTRATEGIC SOLUTIONS FOR FAMILIES INC: $80,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetExchange Club Center for Prevention of Child Abuse: $75,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $57,777 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSIX DIMENSIONS: $45,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetGlobal Gateways: $40,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetHOLMES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetTougaloo College: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetST GABRIEL MERCY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetNATIONAL FLORENCE CRITTENTON MISSION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWe2gether Creating Change: $27,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEcumenical Coalition for Women and Families: $25,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetMIDTOWN PARTNERS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE BLACK GIRL PROJECT: $25,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTutwiler Community Education Center: $25,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CHILD SUCCESS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEBONY PEARLS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $7,400 over 1y, 0.1% 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 MAGNOLIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI ↗
  • Who funds CONVERGE INC ↗
  • Who funds 2ND CHANCE MS ↗
  • Who funds SPRING INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health ↗
  • Who funds CARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DELTA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds STRATEGIC SOLUTIONS FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Exchange Club Center for Prevention of Child Abuse ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION ↗
  • Who funds EXCEL BY 5 INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SIX DIMENSIONS ↗
  • Who funds REFILL JACKSON INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Global Gateways ↗
  • Who funds HOLMES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Mississippi Humanitie…WK Kellogg FoundationThe David and Lucile …Dollar General Litera…2nd Chance MsJessie Smith Noyes Fo…Woodward Hines Educat…Mississippi Food Netw…Mississippi Community…Ms Foundation for Wom…American Heart Associ…
Community Foundation of Northwest MississippiMS31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Women's Foundation of Mississippi funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Foundation of Mississippi. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • National Florence Crittenton Mission: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 67 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 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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