Mississippi · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP
FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,600 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $155k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Friends of Vicksburg National Military Park & Camp does
Mission
Park preservation and restoration
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The organization sponsored activities and programs promoting ongoing preservation and restoration projects.
$199,564 spent$560,531 earned by the program35% of program spendingThe organization initiated activities to construct a new visitors and interpretive center.
$366,562 spent$1,000,000 earned by the program65% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $566,126.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $666k to $1.6M (+144%).
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 40% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $50k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP’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
FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 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
FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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
FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP: 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 FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP?
- FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,600 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $154,600 in grants to FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF VICKSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK & CAMP 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 2020–2024), 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