Mississippi · Nonprofit
HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION
HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,836 to it, the largest being ASBURY FOUNDATION OF HATTIESBURG INC ($107,564). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Hattiesburg Tourism Commission does
Mission
Created to promote the greater hattiesburg area and its tourism industry to potential visitors, increase overnight bookings for both leisure and corporate travel with the ultimate goal of growing the economic impact of these visitors on the local economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Created to promote the greater hattiesburg area and its tourism industry to potential visitors, increase overnight bookings for both leisure and corporate travel with the ultimate goal of growing the economic impact of these visitors on the local economy.
$2,192,156 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,192,156.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.2M to $3.9M (+83%).
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 73% · 2018 80% · 2019 57% · 2020 63% · 2021 49% · 2022 74% · 2023 83% · 2024 78% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Frank James
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $106k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION’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
HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 86% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION: 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 HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION?
- HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,836 to it, the largest being ASBURY FOUNDATION OF HATTIESBURG INC ($107,564). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $225,836 in grants to HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION?
- ASBURY FOUNDATION OF HATTIESBURG INC is the largest funder on record, with $107,564 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HATTIESBURG TOURISM COMMISSION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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