Mississippi · Nonprofit
DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI
DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,512 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Disability Rights Mississippi does
Mission
To promote, protect and advocate for the legal and human rights of all people with disabilities, and to assist them with full inclusion in home, community, education and employment.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
During fiscal year 2025, Disability Rights Mississippi (drms) broadened its individual casework, strengthened systemic advocacy for people with disabilities, enhanced outreach and public education, and expanded collaboration with disability advocacy and service partners to advance its mission of protecting and promoting the rights of mississippians with disabilities. Drms represented clients across a wide range of disabilities and legal issues, handling 159 individual cases, conducting 78 representative payee reviews, and completing 450 beneficiary interviews. The agency also provided disability rights information and referrals to 662 individuals and engaged in over 20 projects, including committee participation, trainings, outreach, and systems advocacy. In addition, drms conducted in-depth reviews of representative payees for the social security administration.fiscal year 2025 was marked by unprecedented funding challenges. Agency appropriations were withheld for several months, requiring difficult operational decisions. For the first time in drms history, all programs temporarily ceased accepting new cases. Funding limitations also necessitated a pause in travel, reducing…
$420,166 spent25% of program spendingProtection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness (paimi): - handled 39 individual cases. - continued to monitor conditions in state psychiatric facilities. - solved problems and investigated allegations of mistreatment or rights violations. - investigated unlicensed personal care homes housing individuals with disabilities. - provided assistance to people with disabilities incarcerated in jails or prisons.
$390,167 spent24% of program spendingRepresentative payee program: - investigated representative payees as assigned by the social security administration. - completed 78 payee reviews and 450 beneficiary interviews. During the course of fy2025 the team went beyond their targeted goal and completed 108% of reviews assigned.
$277,820 spent17% of program spendingProtection and advocacy for individual rights (pair): - handled 66 individual cases. - assisted several students in higher education to get classroom accommodations.protection and advocacy for assistive technology (paat): - provided technical assistance and information and referral people with disabilities who are in need of assistive technologyprotection and advocacy for beneficiaries of social security (pabss): - handled 12 individual cases. - advocated for the rights of social security beneficiaries seeking to obtain or maintain employment. - provided outreach and training about the program throughout the state, with a focus on win job centers.protection and advocacy for traumatic brain injury (patbi) - handled 6 individual cases. - advocated for the rights of individuals with tbi to receive services in a more integrated setting. - collaborated with traumatic brain injury association and others who serve individuals with tbi.protection and advocacy for voting rights (pava) - handled 1 individual case. - incorporated education about voting rights and issues for individuals with disabilities throughout all other work, including education transition, outreach to facility…
$561,555 spent34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,649,708.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $196k to $402k (+105%).
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 97% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Polly Tribble
Executive director
Board chair
Charlene Gressett
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $35k → $88.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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
100% of DISABILITY RIGHTS 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. $512 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.
Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.7M
- Social Security Administration$4.2M
- Department of Education$1.7M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DISABILITY RIGHTS 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.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISABILITY RIGHTS 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI?
- DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,512 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,512 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS MISSISSIPPI?
- WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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