Mississippi · Nonprofit
Meridian Community College Foundation
Meridian Community College Foundation (Mississippi) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,262,927 to it, the largest being THE RILEY FOUNDATION ($2,255,750). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $6.3M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Meridian Community College Foundation does
Mission
To provide educational assistance to students through scholarships and enhancing performance of faculty and staff by providing grants for post-graduate study and career improvements and attracting private donations and grants for the college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships and awards - awarded on the basis of academic performance, financial need and career goals, to traditional and non-traditional students enrolled in the university transfer program, 2 year associate degree programs or technical programs that prepare the students to enter the workforce upon completion of their classes.
$662,974 spent29% of program spendingFaculty/Staff programs and grants - awarded for educational travel, post-graduate study and career improvements. These are awarded to Faculty/Staff of Meridian Community College.
$75,437 spent3% of program spendingEarly Childhood Program - transfer of grant funds specifically for this program to the college
$82,220 spent4% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 8,854, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Lifetime Quest Program - Community development program for learning in retirement. Program Service Expenses 10,000, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Arts Letters Series - Cultural programs presented for the enlightment or college students, faculty, staff and members of the community Program Service Expenses 3,700, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Art, Academic and Staff Awards Program Service Expenses 42,801, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Golf Program Support Program Service Expenses 480,058, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Donations to Meridian Community College from designated contributions Program Service Expenses 126,105, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Lifetime Quest Travel and MCC Foundation Travel trips expenditures Program Service Expenses 43,085, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Softball Program Support Program Service Expenses 126,733, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Baseball Program Support Program Service Expenses 29,019, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Various Sports Program Service Expenses 23,737, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Various Departments Support…
$1,493,624 spent65% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,314,255.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $20M to $24M (+21%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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 broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $956k → $595k.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Meridian Community College 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
Meridian Community College Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 64% · 2019 70% · 2020 49% · 2021 54% · 2022 75% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of Meridian Community College Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of Meridian Community College Foundation's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $482k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Meridian Community College 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Meridian Community College · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Meridian Community College 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 Meridian Community College Foundation?
- Meridian Community College Foundation (Mississippi) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,262,927 to it, the largest being THE RILEY FOUNDATION ($2,255,750). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Meridian Community College Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $6,262,927 in grants to Meridian Community College Foundation, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Meridian Community College Foundation?
- THE RILEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,255,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Meridian Community College 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 28 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