Mississippi · Nonprofit
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,866,184 to it, the largest being PITTMAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST FBO FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CLEVELAND MS ($4,061,228). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Delta State University Foundation does
Mission
The delta state foundation inc is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to growth, development and enhancement of delta state univ and its faculty, staff and students with special emphasis on academic quality, through solicitation, professional management and prudent disbursement of invested funds and other gifts derived from private sources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
These program service expenses were for the sole purpose of supporting and promoting the academic programs and student development programs of delta state university. Enrichment activities provided by the foundation include faculty and staff development, student scholarships, and financial aid.
$5,706,426 spentof which $1,268,314 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,706,426.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $40M to $49M (+25%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Hugh Smith
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $879k → $1.1M.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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
62% 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 DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 81% · 2019 34% · 2020 40% · 2021 62% · 2022 41% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
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.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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 DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: 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 DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,866,184 to it, the largest being PITTMAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST FBO FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CLEVELAND MS ($4,061,228). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $11,866,184 in grants to DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- PITTMAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST FBO FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF CLEVELAND MS is the largest funder on record, with $4,061,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing