How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Mississippi?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Mississippi, currently The Ford Foundation, Community Foundation for Mississippi, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Mississippi from out of state.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Mississippi?

$116M reached 247 arts and culture organizations in Mississippi, from 488 funders. 37% came from funders also based in Mississippi.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Mississippi · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Mississippi

$116M reached 247 arts and culture organizations in Mississippi, from 488 funders, with no single one dominating.

$116M

granted

247

organizations

37%

from in-state

The short version

488 funders gave $116M to 247 arts and culture organizations in Mississippi across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
37% of that came from funders also based in Mississippi; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Mississippi is The Ford Foundation, at $9M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Deep South Today, at $19M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Mississippi

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Mississippi, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1The Ford Foundation$9M 2Community Foundation for Mississippi$8M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$6M 4The Andrew W Mellon Foundation$6M 5Lilly Endowment Inc$5M 6Phil Hardin Foundation$5M 7The Riley Foundation$4M 8WK Kellogg Foundation$4M 9Mississippi Common Fund Trust$3M 10Ergon Foundation Inc$3M

Arts and culture organizations in Mississippi that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

237 other arts and culture organizations$40M

Deep South Today$19M Mississippi Children's Museum$13M Mississippi Museum of Art Inc$12M American Private Radio$7M Mississippi Center for Cultural Production$6M International Museum of Muslim Culture$3M Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Association$3M

How to find arts and culture funders in Mississippi

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Start with the funders already active in Mississippi
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Mississippi are The Ford Foundation, Community Foundation for Mississippi, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
63% of arts and culture money in Mississippi comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Mississippi.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Mississippi?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Mississippi, currently The Ford Foundation, Community Foundation for Mississippi, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Mississippi from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Mississippi?: The Ford Foundation gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Mississippi, $9M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Mississippi?: $116M reached 247 arts and culture organizations in Mississippi, from 488 funders. 37% came from funders also based in Mississippi.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.