Mississippi · Nonprofit
HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION
HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,405 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($94,794). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $705k
What Historic Desoto Foundation does
Mission
To establish and maintain the desoto county museum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Showcase artifacts and exhibits featuring the history of desoto county, mississippi from 1541 to present.
$75,975 spent98% of program spendingShowcase artifacts and exhibits featuring the history of desoto county, mississippi from 1541 to present.
$1,216 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $77,191.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $538k to $693k (+29%).
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: 2019 43% · 2020 69% · 2021 37% · 2022 55% · 2023 47% · 2024 48% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $6k.
2 of 5 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 HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION’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
HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 76% · 2019 70% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 59% · 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
HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION draws 79% 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. $86k 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.
Organizations like HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION: 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 HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION?
- HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,405 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH ($94,794). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $205,405 in grants to HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION?
- UNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH is the largest funder on record, with $94,794 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC DESOTO FOUNDATION 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