Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC
MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $73M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $0
- Net assets
- $231k
What Mississippi Action for Progress Inc does
Mission
The agency operates a head start program for approximately 4,500 children (over 90% of enrollees are from families whose income is at or below poverty level per federal guidelines) providing health, social, educational and nutritional services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The agency operates a head start program for approximately 4,500 children (whose family income is at or below poverty level per federal guidelines) providing health, social, educational and nutritional services.
$69,858,689 spent95% of program spendingThe usda food service program insures that balanced meals and snacks are served to the children served by the agency.
$3,762,914 spent5% of program spendingNon-federal grants/support is used for appropriate budgeted expenses according to the funding source. All expenses relate to the agency's mission/program service accomplishments.
$5,128 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $73,626,731.
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 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $25M (+95%).
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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Against its field
MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC has grown faster than half of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $544.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$544.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS 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 MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC?
- MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS INC?
- READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI ACTION FOR PROGRESS 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.
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 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