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Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi
Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi (Mississippi) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,961 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ($212,975). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- Ala-Tom RC&D Council Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 3% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 4% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $36k → $136k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 39% · 2022 37% · 2023 37% — 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
80% of Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.
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
78% of Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchMS · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Leo W Seal Jr Family Foundationshared funderslocalMS · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 12 organizations near you
- Ala-Tom RC&D Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lower Pearl River Valley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mapp Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott County Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Southwest Alabama Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of East Mississippiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocatesshared fundersIL · backs 12 organizations that share your funders
- Innovate MississippilocalMS · funds 4 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi?
- Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi (Mississippi) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $815,961 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI ($212,975). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $815,961 in grants to Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $212,975 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Count Appointment Special Advocates of South Mississippi 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing