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MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC

MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being THE PEOPLES HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$106k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$66k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Mardi Gras Museum Inc does

Mission

To record and promote the history of mardi gras on the mississippi gulf coast through its museum of artifacts, history documentation and educational programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Annual childrens' mardis gras parade and shoe box float building crafts and educational speaker. Allows children to experience the riding in a mardi gras parade on the streets of historic biloxi. Allows them to experience the design and construction of a mardi gras float.

    $1,015 spent$4,600 earned by the program
    41% of program spending

  2. Sponsor events and exhibit features held at museum.

    $1,455 spent$6,345 earned by the program
    59% of program spending

  3. Admission fees by tourist visiting the museum to view mardi gras displays and net profits from gift shop sales of mardi gras souviners

    $10,561 earned by the program

  4. Gulf coast carnival association use of the musuem for administrtion of the mardi gras season including coronation of king, queen, dukes, maids and street parade in downtown biloxi

    $10,025 earned by the program

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,470.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3k) Expenses 100 ($10k) Net assets 100 ($139k)2018 Revenue 123 ($3k) Expenses 679 ($68k) Net assets 54 ($75k)2019 Revenue 6853 ($194k) Expenses 1619 ($162k) Net assets 77 ($107k)2020 Revenue 2703 ($77k) Expenses 1001 ($100k) Net assets 61 ($84k)2021 Revenue 2644 ($75k) Expenses 964 ($96k) Net assets 45 ($63k)2022 Revenue 3051 ($86k) Expenses 1040 ($104k) Net assets 33 ($45k)2023 Revenue 4027 ($114k) Expenses 985 ($98k) Net assets 44 ($61k)2024 Revenue 3541 ($100k) Expenses 933 ($93k) Net assets 49 ($69k)2025 Revenue 3732 ($106k) Expenses 1082 ($108k) Net assets 48 ($66k)
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Revenue (3732)Expenses (1082)Net assets (48)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $139k to $75k (−46%).

$139k
$75k
$107k
$84k
$63k
$45k
$61k
$69k
$66k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 89% · 2020 71% · 2021 71% · 2022 62% · 2023 70% · 2024 64% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
−$64k
’18
$33k
’19
−$23k
’20
−$21k
’21
−$17k
’22
$16k
’23
$7k
’24
−$2k
’25
7.4
months of
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.

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Listed35881111121212
Joined·+2+4+0+7+0+1+0+1
No longer listed·01040001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $2k.

Funder
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'21
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.

MS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
Mississippi out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)57% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC

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

Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum79%Mississippi Maritime Museum Inc79%Miss Agriculture & Forestry Museum Foundation Walter Siller Bldg76%Northeast Mississippi Museum Assn75%Ftc Qalicb Inc75%Museum of the Mississippi Delta75%Mississippi Sports Foundation Inc75%Foundation for Mississippi History74%

Nationally

Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum79%Mississippi Maritime Museum Inc79%Mobile Carnival Association Inc79%Krewe of Gemini of the Ark-La-Tex77%National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico76%Miss Agriculture & Forestry Museum Foundation Walter Siller Bldg76%Shreveport-Bossier Was Mardi Gras76%Bayou Country Children's Museum75%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

2% of spending goes to programs.

Program 2%Management 98%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MS

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC: 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 MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC?
MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being THE PEOPLES HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,500 in grants to MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC?
THE PEOPLES HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARDI GRAS MUSEUM INC 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 1 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