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Mississippi · Nonprofit
LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER (Mississippi) is funded by 15 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $806,986 in grants to it, the largest being MISSISSIPPI GULF RESORT CLASSIC ($235,240). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,251 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,251 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 5%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$16k from 2 funders in 2024, up from $24k and 2 in 2017.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 77% · 2019 92% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 85% · 2023 93% · 2024 94% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
43% of LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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.
LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER is locally rooted: 86% of its grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 15 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
86% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is 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 15funders 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. view filing