Mississippi · Nonprofit
MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,400 to it, the largest being Kelly Gene Cook Sr Charitable Foundation ($114,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $-2107904
What Mb Swayze Educational Foundation does
Mission
To encourage support for quality education in mississippi; to identify, educate, and motivate leaders who can make a significant contribution to the development of mississippi; and to conduct independent public policy research on issues such as taxation , economic development, competitiveness, education, governmental accountability , and other matters.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Establishment of a disaster relief fund to help support mississippi businesses affected by natural disaster.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Public policy research- one of the organization's missions is to conduct indeprendent public policy research on issues related to economic development. During the current year, the focus was on the establishment of a single, non-profit organization to focus on the needs of mississippi businesses and economic development.
$131,756 spent$150,000 earned by the program34% of program spendingLeadership mississippi-training of business leaders for future service to mississippi.
$256,158 spent$157,643 earned by the program66% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $387,914.
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 $81k to $188k (+132%).
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: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Rhea Williams-Bishop
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $29k → $31k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $968k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Mississippi Partnership for Economic Development Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL 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
MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2020 77% · 2021 80% · 2022 92% · 2023 92% — 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
MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Organizations like MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ms Economic Council · exempt
- Propel Education Forum of Ms Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL 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 MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,400 to it, the largest being Kelly Gene Cook Sr Charitable Foundation ($114,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $197,400 in grants to MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- Kelly Gene Cook Sr Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $114,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MB SWAYZE EDUCATIONAL 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.
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 6 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