Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY
MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY (Mississippi) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,147,044 to it, the largest being PARKER LIFESHARE FOUNDATION ($616,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Mississippi Children's Home Society does
Mission
To improve the lives of children and families by providing a continuum of compassionate, measureable, and effective behavioral health and social services for children and families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Canopy's in-circle is a comprehensive home and community based family preservation, reunification and support solution for children and families. This comprehensive family support services is a unique service as an alternative to unnecessary placement of children and youth in out-of-home care and to promote timely reunification for children and youth who have been removed. 1,492 individuals were served in 2025.
$7,543,034 spentof which $45,594 as grants35% of program spendingMississippi youth programs around the clock provides a statewide intensive in-home and community based behavioral health solution that is designated to keep youth thriving in the home as an alternative to residential care, offering: psychiatric services, individual and family therapy, medication management, and crisis intervention 24/7. 469 individuals were served in 2025.
$2,663,815 spentof which $4,750 as grants$3,098,662 earned by the program12% of program spendingOut-patient behavioral health clinics are out-patient clinics that serve children and youth ages 5 up to 21 years old, providing access to evaluation, individual and family therapy, crisis prevention, medication management, and psychiatric services. (hattiesburg, jackson, gulfport). 1,588 individuals served in 2025.
$2,255,808 spent$1,874,186 earned by the program10% of program spendingWarren county children's shelter is an emergency facility for abused, neglected, runaway, throwaway, and homeless children from infancy to age 17. 82 youth were served in 2025.
$1,015,345 spentof which $2,353 as grants$317,229 earned by the program5% of program spendingSouth mississippi child advocacy center provides children involved in allegations of physical or sexual abuse, neglect, or who may have witnessed a violent crime a safe place where they can come and tell their story a single time offering: forensic interviews, access to community resources, court preparations for families, court testimony, mental health solutions, parenting classes and community outreach, victim advocacy, and multidisciplinary team reviews. 1,517 youth were served in 2025.
$840,910 spent4% of program spendingTherapeutic foster care, in-home services and adoption- intensive in-home services program works with seriously, emotionally disturbed youth at home who may otherwise be placed in out-of-home care. Therapeutic foster care program provides a therapeutic program in a caring environment in the context of a nurturing foster family home. Adoption/maternity services seeks to provide a permanent, loving family for every child, including children with special needs and sibling groups. 14 youth were served in 2025.
$227,913 spentof which $5,250 as grants$241,195 earned by the program1% of program spendingLink connects families with state, local, and federal community resources for when they are in crisis situations. 7,548 individuals were served in 2025.
$4,544,112 spentof which $44,797 as grants21% of program spendingAffiliate rental income
$1,652,925 earned by the programOur wraparound solution creates a wide system of care coordination process that partners with children, youth and their families to connect with resources to help them succeed long term, offering identification of family support for long term success, collaboration for family goals and lasting outcomes, and help to keep families together. 491 youth served in 2025.
$1,777,530 spentof which $7,550 as grants$2,173,750 earned by the program8% of program spendingCanopy anywhere is a safe and optional in-school option for youth mental wellness. Developed around the evidence-based science of hope, canopy anywhere is an approach designed for students in grade 6-12.
$704,017 spent3% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,572,484.
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.
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 $32M to $28M (−12%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 30% · 2020 34% · 2021 47% · 2022 54% · 2023 48% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
John Damon
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $428k → $489k.
9 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
38% 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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 39% · 2019 39% · 2020 25% · 2021 38% · 2022 22% · 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
43% of MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
82% of MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $969k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.9M
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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY
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
70% 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 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mississippi Children's Home Services · exempt
- Cares Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY?
- MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY (Mississippi) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,147,044 to it, the largest being PARKER LIFESHARE FOUNDATION ($616,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $4,147,044 in grants to MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY?
- PARKER LIFESHARE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $616,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY 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 61 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