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.
- Revenue FY2017
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Creative Mississippi does
Mission
Creative mississipppi's, a fiscal sponsor, purpose includes educating, informing and inspiring mississippi's citizens about the successes of their local communities and neighbors through visual arts that capture the best of mississippi's successes in revitalization, bridge building and reconciliation.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Educating, informing, and inspiring mississippi citizens through visual arts
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
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
Organizations like CREATIVE MISSISSIPPI
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
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.
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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.
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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 4 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