Mississippi · Nonprofit
Mississippi College
Mississippi College (Mississippi) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,597,096 to it, the largest being HOLLOWAY FOUNDATION INC ($4,518,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $140M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $234M
What Mississippi College does
Mission
Mississippi College is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. Founded in 1826, Mississippi College is the oldest institution of higher learning and the largest private university in the state of mississippi. (continued on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational and general expenses: instruction is provided to more than 5,000 students with undergradutate, graduate and doctoral programs and degrees. The university is committed to excellence and innovation in teaching and learning. Tuition and fee revenue are used to pay salaries of faculty and staff and provide teaching facilities and necessary supplies. Grants: the university awarded over $47 million in financial aid to students during the 2024-2025 aid year and made over $75,000 in grants to organizations that support student ministries on campus.
$104,786,935 spentof which $47,765,023 as grants$88,198,809 earned by the program91% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises: the university provides a number of services that support learning, build community and enhance the overall quality of student life. These include, but are not limited to, residential housing, dining, bookstore and mail services.
$9,988,140 spent$22,508,910 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,775,075.
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 $241M to $269M (+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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of Mississippi College’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ronnie Falvey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $733k → $1.5M.
18 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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 College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 19% · 2019 66% · 2020 58% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 26% — 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
35% of Mississippi College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 College draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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 College runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Mississippi College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.4M on record.
- Department of Education$16.4M
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 College
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Mississippi College Foundation · exempt
- Mississippi College Property Development · exempt
- The Baptist Healthplex Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust · corp_trust
- Mary Shipp Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mississippi College: 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 College?
- Mississippi College (Mississippi) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,597,096 to it, the largest being HOLLOWAY FOUNDATION INC ($4,518,000). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mississippi College have?
- IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $12,597,096 in grants to Mississippi College, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mississippi College?
- HOLLOWAY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,518,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mississippi College 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 81 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