Mississippi · Nonprofit
DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,043 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($207,923). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Desoto County Foundation for Excellence in Education does
Mission
The Desoto County Foundation for Excellence in Education's main objective is to identify, support and promote education at all levels in desoto county. They receive and distribute grants and scholarships to teachers and students across desoto county. They promote partnerships between the community and classrooms through grant programs. The salute to education program annually recognizes individuals in education who excel in education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Desoto County Foundation for Excellence in Education's main objective is to identify, support and promote education at all levels in desoto county. They receive and distribute grants and scholarships to teachers and students across desoto county. They promote partnerships between the community and classrooms through grant programs. The salute to education program annually recognizes individuals in education who excel in education.
$56,261 spent100% of program spendingThe general funds are allocated for "mini-grants" to support teachers, foster partnerships with businesses and industries, create endowments for college scholarships, implement teacher incentive programs, and recognize both faculty and students. These funds benefit all public, private, and parochial schools in the county. Each teacher is assigned a sponsor to whom they report on the success of their awarded grant. This process aims to strengthen relationships and garner support for our schools within the local community, including businesses, industries, churches, and private individuals.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,261.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $19k to $6k (−68%).
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.
99% of DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
John Ray
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $38k → $13k.
1 of 2 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 DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION’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
DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION's revenue fell 33% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
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.
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION?
- DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,043 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($207,923). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $208,043 in grants to DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION?
- UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH is the largest funder on record, with $207,923 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DESOTO COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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