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EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC

EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,979 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MS INC ($456,565). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$1.9M
12/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Edwards Street Fellowship Center Inc does

Mission

The purpose of edwards street fellowship center is to provide a helping hand to the poor, the underserved, the suffering in the greater hattiesburg, ms area. The organization's mission is to shine the light of god's love.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Edwards street fellowship center, inc., provides christian service to the greater hattiesburg, mississippi, area through benevolence and various human development programs, including a food pantry, health clinic, and thrift store.

    $1,843,785 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,843,785.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($926k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 123 ($1.3M) Expenses 104 ($963k) Net assets 126 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 136 ($1.4M) Expenses 155 ($1.4M) Net assets 128 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 179 ($1.8M) Expenses 174 ($1.6M) Net assets 155 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 181 ($1.9M) Expenses 178 ($1.7M) Net assets 180 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 151 ($1.6M) Expenses 192 ($1.8M) Net assets 164 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 213 ($2.2M) Expenses 203 ($1.9M) Net assets 191 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 194 ($2.0M) Expenses 217 ($2.0M) Net assets 190 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (194)Expenses (217)Net assets (190)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $1.7M (+25%).

$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.7M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$105k
’17
$302k
’18
−$34k
’19
$232k
’20
$219k
’21
−$217k
’22
$311k
’23
−$8k
’24
5.5
months of
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

Joy Yates

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed3231312625252524
Joined·+0+7+4+5+7+6+6
No longer listed·1796767
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $0 → $182k.

9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 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

EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

83% 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 EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC.

41%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 57% · 2019 81% · 2020 27% · 2021 43% · 2022 40% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.

“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

70% of EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

82% of EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.

NY
MO
DE
NC
MS
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $430k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 4%Fundraising 4%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mississippi United Methodist Church Conference · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC?
EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,979 to it, the largest being THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MS INC ($456,565). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,119,979 in grants to EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC?
THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST MS INC is the largest funder on record, with $456,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EDWARDS STREET FELLOWSHIP CENTER INC 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 22 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