Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY (Mississippi) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,012,350 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INC ($1,204,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $745k
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $186k
What Mississippi Center for Public Policy does
Mission
To advance the ideals of limited government, free markets, and strong families by providing government officials, the media, and the public with information and perspective to help them understand and defend liberty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The center researches and studies public policy issues and dispenses this information to policy makers, business leaders, members of the media and the general public.
$154,651 spent$8,200 earned by the program79% of program spendingThe center's public interest legal division advises and represents members of the public, at no cost to the clients, in matters involving the defense of federal and state constitutional rights and civil liberties.
$41,256 spent21% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $195,907.
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 2022 to 2023, from $292k to $214k (−27%).
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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Calvin Wells
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $263k → $492k.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PUBLIC POLICY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 PUBLIC POLICY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
27% 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 PUBLIC POLICY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 47% · 2019 57% · 2020 33% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 31% — 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
39% of MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY'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
67% of MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $575k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 PUBLIC POLICY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY
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
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
- MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY (Mississippi) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,012,350 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INC ($1,204,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,012,350 in grants to MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
- INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,204,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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