· Public charity
Woodward Hines Education Foundation
To expand equitable access to and completion of postsecondary credentials, certificates, and degrees that lead to meaningful employment for more Mississippians.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $1,041,808 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,376,110 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $334,302 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $634k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Propel Education Forum of Mississippi Inc | $250,000 |
| Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi (CFNM) on behalf of Global Te | $170,200 |
| Coahoma Community College | $133,774 |
| Itawamba Community College Foundation Inc | $80,000 |
| NCAN National #DoTheFAFSA Social Media Campaign | $50,000 |
| MB Swayze Educational Foundation | $50,000 |
| The Parent's Campaign | $50,000 |
| Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy | $50,000 |
| Mississippi State University Foundation | $50,000 |
| Children's Foundation of Mississippi | $49,971 |
| MS Institutions of Higher Learning Complete 2 Compete | $41,363 |
| Jackson Medical Mall Foundation | $30,000 |
| Mississippi Council on Economic Education | $25,000 |
| Community Foundation for Mississippi | $11,500 |
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 (FY22–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
- PEPROPEL EDUCATION FORUM OF MISSISSIPPI INC3× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +470% · 50% of their budget
- ICITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +71%
- MAMISSISSIPPI ALLIANCE OF NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY5× · 2020–2024 · $156k · revenue +24%
Funded once
ACHIEVING THE DREAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $900k · revenue +47%- PTPHI THETA KAPPA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $441k · revenue -24%
- MCMISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $320k · revenue -85% · 44% of their budget
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.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
To advance the ideals of limited government, free markets, and strong families by providing government officials, the media, and the public with information and perspective to help them understand and defend liberty.
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…
To provide financial support to missouri southern state university from donations from the public for scholarships, awards to students, departmental support, cultural activities, general college support and faculty development.
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.
The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The mississippi alliance of independent colleges and universities is dedicated to advancing the collective interests of private, nonprofit higher education institutions across the state. as a tax-exempt organization, maicu's primary…
Mississippi college is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. founded in 1826, mississippi college is the oldest…
To advance the educational interests of mississippi, promote professional excellence among educators, and to advance educators interests and welfare.
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the most unlike its peers is Alcorn State University Foundation Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 36 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 ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds PROPEL EDUCATION FORUM OF MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds PHI THETA KAPPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds ITAWAMBA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI ALLIANCE OF NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
- Who funds ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTS' CAMPAIGN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM PROJECT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN INITIATIVE OF THE ALGEBRA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON MEDICAL MALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY ↗
- Who funds STRADA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ↗
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: Phil Hardin Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · WK Kellogg Foundation · Women's Foundation of Mississippi · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · The Dick Molpus Foundation · C Spire Foundation · Mississippi Power Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis 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 Woodward Hines Education Foundation 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.
- Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% 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.