Mississippi · Nonprofit
EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER
EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER (Mississippi) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,566,831 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,400,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Emmett Till Interpretive Center does
Mission
To remember, preserve, and educate the public about the history, stories and cultural legacy of civil rights of tallahatchie county and other vital sites along the emmett till trail and their lasting effects on the county, state and the nation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center (etic) worked to acquire additional historic properties that are key parts of the emmett till tragedy and held a 69th anniversary commemoration event at the barn where emmett till was murdered.etic provided staff for the front desk of the till national monument visitor center, provided tours of the tallahatchie county courthouse, and partnered with the park service to install a new exhibit.in partnership with we2gether creating change, etic supported the third cohort of the emmett till academy, an afterschool program for high school students.etic hosted a two-week summer film academy for 20 high school students in the mississippi delta, equipping participants with technical skills, storytelling tools, and mentorship to amplify youth voices through film.
$1,251,181 spentof which $13,040 as grants$88,500 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,251,181.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.1M to $7.3M (+81%).
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: 2020 31% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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
Patrick Weems
Executive director
Board chair
Rev Willie Williams
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $3k → $4.3M.
7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER’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
EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% 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 EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 59% · 2021 85% · 2022 65% · 2023 53% — 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
13% of EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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.
Against its field
EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of the Interior$649k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$488k
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
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 EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER: 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 EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER?
- EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER (Mississippi) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,566,831 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,400,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $11,566,831 in grants to EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMMETT TILL INTERPRETIVE CENTER 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.
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 28 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