Mississippi · Nonprofit
CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI
CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,425 to it, the largest being PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ($84,425). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,323 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,323 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017
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 Humanities Council Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippishared fundersportfolio match
- Mississippi Power Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $84k → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
96% of CREATIVE 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. 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Mississippi Humanities Council Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMS · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippishared fundersportfolio matchMS · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mississippi Power Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchMS · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Regions Foundationshared funderslocalMS · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · funds 11 organizations near you
- Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R & B Feder Charitable Foundation for the Beaux-Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope Enterprise CorporationlocalMS · funds 71 organizations near you
- Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maddox Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Riley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dick Molpus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of East Mississippiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 CREATIVE 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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE 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 CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI?
- CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,425 to it, the largest being PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION ($84,425). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $114,425 in grants to CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI?
- PHIL HARDIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $84,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 4funders 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