Mississippi · Nonprofit
MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION
MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,751 to it, the largest being MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($5,580). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Migration Heritage Foundation does
Mission
Document the past and shape the future by promoting cultural and heritage awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Shaped the Future as follows: Awarded Scholarships for $11,350 to the following thirteen students in 2025: Total Amount = $11,350 Documented the past by installing a National Federation of Colored Farmers (NFCF) historic marker at Mt. Zion Church on Howard Road in Lexington, MS. Contributions were earmarked for the marker and refreshments to be served at the installation ceremony. Total Amount=$2,670. Approximately 50 people attended the installation on October 25, 2025.
$674 spentof which $11,350 as grants80% of program spendingDocumented the past as follows: (1) Maintained an online cultural heritage center at mhtr.us and distributed an electronic newsletter that disseminated information about African American cultural heritage. The Website averages approximately 40 viewers per month.
$170 spentof which $2,500 as grants20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $844.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $16k to $21k (+34%).
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 MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sylvia Gist
President/Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $23 → $39.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 MIGRATION HERITAGE 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
MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $171 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
MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MIGRATION HERITAGE 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.
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIGRATION HERITAGE 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 MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,751 to it, the largest being MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($5,580). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,751 in grants to MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIGRATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIGRATION HERITAGE 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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