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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,100,750 to it, the largest being AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ($3,945,792). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.4M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$6.1M
Net assets
$3.0M
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi Foundation Inc does

Mission

Communication: equality and freedom of speech and expression

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Legislation - conduct public education on issues related to strategic initiatives intended to defend constitutional rights and extend civil liberties.

    $173,035 spent
    3% of program spending
  2. Advocacy - engage and empower communities, particularly under represented communities, through know your rights trainings and civic engagement forums.

    $408,792 spent
    8% of program spending
  3. Litigation - challenge in united states and state courts which discriminate against or disenfranchise mississippi residents because of race, age, gender, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.

    $4,487,445 spent
    84% of program spending
  4. Communication program expenses

    $261,618 spent
    5% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,330,890.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 106 ($1.1M) Expenses 90 ($1.2M) Net assets 90 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 103 ($1.1M) Expenses 61 ($844k) Net assets 110 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 136 ($1.4M) Expenses 107 ($1.5M) Net assets 98 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 204 ($2.1M) Expenses 79 ($1.1M) Net assets 205 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 326 ($3.3M) Expenses 115 ($1.6M) Net assets 323 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 103 ($1.1M) Expenses 137 ($1.9M) Net assets 232 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 160 ($1.6M) Expenses 122 ($1.7M) Net assets 201 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 625 ($6.4M) Expenses 410 ($5.7M) Net assets 266 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (625)Expenses (410)Net assets (266)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $3.9M (+68%).

$1.4M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.1M
$2.3M
$3.9M
$2.9M
$2.5M
$3.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$358k
’17
−$150k
’18
$215k
’19
−$91k
’20
$993k
’21
$1.7M
’22
−$837k
’23
−$45k
’24
$732k
’25
3.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Jarvis Dortch

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed446656222220
Joined·+2+2+0+4+1+18+2+3
No longer listed·20050225
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $494k → $362k.

5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC.

65%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 93% · 2021 48% · 2022 70% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 9 states in all.

WA
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
NC
LA
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $293k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Mississippi

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
MS

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • ACLU of Ms Inc · exempt
  • ACLU Inc · exempt
  • ACLU Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC?
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,100,750 to it, the largest being AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ($3,945,792). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $6,100,750 in grants to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC?
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,945,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing