Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE
MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,550 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($379,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $559k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $396k
- Net assets
- $864k
What Mississippi Early Learning Alliance does
Mission
To build, strengthen, and support coalitions to advocate for systems change to improve early learning and child development outcomes in our state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
This past year, the Mississippi Early Learning Alliance (mela) worked alongside families, educators, businesses, and policymakers to strengthen the systems that support children from birth to age three.through the mississippi forum for the future, the coalition mela leads as the backbone continued to grow by bringing together diverse voices, clarifying roles, and setting a common agenda for change and had 180 members at the end of june 2025. Mela also worked to build public will for infant and toddler issues. Thanks to technical assistance and funding from the national organization, zero to three, mela has been coordinating a collective message campaign, built for babies, that was launched in the fall of 2025. Mela supported partners, elevated child care, and paid family leave via op-eds in mississippi media to increase awareness about the importance of the supporting babies during their earliest days and years. The result has been a stronger, more consistent voice for babies and families across the state.as importantly, mela worked to educate others about potential prenatal-to-five policy changes for our state. Mela kept the early childhood community connected through capitol…
$430,868 spent$61,165 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $430,868.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $711k to $943k (+33%).
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.
82% of MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Elizabeth Harris
Executive director
Board chair
Dr Devon Brenner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE.
“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.
Where its funders are
96% of MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Mississippi, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE?
- MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $395,550 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($379,550). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $395,550 in grants to MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $379,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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