Mississippi · Nonprofit
FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI
FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,151 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $105k
What First Responders of Mississippi does
Mission
Our mission is to provide services for first responders in their greatest time of need. Resources can be provided to individuals, families or organizations. Our areas of focus include: life saving equipment, behavioral health prevention education, training, behavioral health referrals, including trauma, and addiction-related issues and disaster relief for first responders. First Responders of Mississippi was created to make a positive difference in the lives of first responder organization, the heroes themselves, and their families, no matter the challenge.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our mission is to provide services for first responders intheir greatest time of need. Resources can be provided toindividuals, families or organizations. Our areas of focusinclude: life saving equipment, behavioral health prevention education,training, behavioral health referrals, including trauma, andaddiction-related issues and disaster relief for first responders.First Responders of Mississippi was created to make a positivedifference in the lives of first responder organization, the heroesthemselves, and their families, no matter the challenge.
$54,228 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,228.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $32k to $100k (+211%).
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.
100% of FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $4k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of FIRST RESPONDERS OF 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
FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 64% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,076 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FIRST RESPONDERS OF 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.
Public support
96%
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 FIRST RESPONDERS OF 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 FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI?
- FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,151 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $9,151 in grants to FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST RESPONDERS OF MISSISSIPPI?
- NEW YORK LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST RESPONDERS OF 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 2018–2024), 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