Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE (Mississippi) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,191,894 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($4,791,098). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 107
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $9.4M
What Mississippi Center for Justice does
Mission
Mississippi Center for Justice is a nonprofit, public interest law firm committed to advancing racial and economic justice. Supported and staffed by attorneys and other professionals, the center develops and pursues strategies to combat discrimination and poverty statewide.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mcj's advocacy, direct services, policy, and impact litigation continued its significant and sustainable progress towards advancing racial, economic, and social justice across mississippi. This year, mcj showed up in community 373 times and reached 38 out of 82 counties with in person clinics, outreach events and focus groups make an impact on people of color and those living in poverty in the state of mississippi. Mcj continues to advocate for medicaid expansion, educating elected officials and mississippians on the importance of access to healthcare for nearly 200,000 uninsured mississippians, many of whom are working. Mcj continues to help mississippians expunge their criminal records, thereby unlocking new employment and housing opportunities. In the last year, mcj helped generate over 450 petitions/orders for expungements. Mcj successfully challenged sb 2358, defeating a law that attempted to limit the universe of those who can help disabled voters cast absentee ballots by mail to election officials, postal employees, family and household members, and caregivers.mcj's challenge to the mississippi legislative redistricting plan of 2022 led to the creation of three new majority…
$2,851,140 spentof which $31,301 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,851,140.
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 $5.6M to $11M (+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 65% · 2018 70% · 2019 48% · 2020 8% · 2021 11% · 2022 22% · 2023 18% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Vangela M Wade
President/CEO
Board chair
Walter Boone
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $2.9M.
26 of 107 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 107 funders by total. 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
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
53% 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 MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 30% · 2019 29% · 2020 33% · 2021 32% · 2022 24% · 2023 24% — 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
34% of MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE'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
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.
Against its field
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.1M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.8M
- Federal Communications Commission$300k
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 CENTER FOR JUSTICE
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: 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 CENTER FOR JUSTICE?
- MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE (Mississippi) receives grants from 107 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,191,894 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($4,791,098). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 107 organizations giving $24,191,894 in grants to MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,791,098 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE 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 107 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing