Mississippi · Nonprofit
MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE
MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $537,670 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($410,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $109k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $538k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute does
Mission
Nurturing positive civic and social change by engaging in innovative and meaningful educational opportunities and experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
- "what's at stake:" freedom summer:"what's at stake?" is a series that examines contemporary social justice challenges affecting african americans and disenfranchised communities. The 2024 series freedom summer program brings together thought leaders from the civil rights, creative, and healthcare communities to discuss the impact of recent efforts and other modern-day barriers that limit americans' valuable rights. Educating young people about the history of the civil rights movement, with a focus on the events of the freedom summer of 1964. Participants learn about the struggle for voting rights and the impact of civil rights activists. - medgar wiley evers lecture series: joy reid presents her newest book, "medgar and myrlie: medgar evers and the love story that awakened america." new york times bestselling author, political commentator, and host of msnbc's the reidout will discuss her latest book, medgar evers and the love story that awakened america, with moderator ebony lumumba, chair of the english department at jackson state university. The discussion will analyze the civil rights movement's historical and contemporary significance through the lives and legacy of medgar…
$86,164 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,164.
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 2021 to 2022, from $151k to $66k (−56%).
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.
100% of MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Reena Evers-Everette
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Marino Bruce
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $185k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE’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
MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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
MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE draws 94% 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. $25k 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.
Against its field
MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE: 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 MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE?
- MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $537,670 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($410,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $537,670 in grants to MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDGAR AND MYRLIE EVERS INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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