Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS
MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS (Mississippi) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,616,805 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($3,075,375). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $626k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $205k
What Mississippi Families for Kids does
Mission
To ensure that every child in foster care and in the child welfare system finds a permanent home.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The counseling program provides services to families and children who are mentally and emotionally challenged due to depression, adhd, conduct disorders and other mental issues. Part of this program is the system of care model. This model is an organizational philosophy and framework that involves collaboration across agencies, families and youths for the purpose of improving access and expanding the array of coordinated community-based, culturally and linguistically competent services and support for children and youth with serious emotional and behavioral challenges and for their families.
$113,126 spent22% of program spendingHelp me grow - the purpose of the help me grow system is to identify at- risk children and to help families find community based programs and services. The help me grow system trains physicians in early detection screening, surveillance, and connection to services. Research shows that having this system increases early identification for children who are at- risk for delays. Families in mississippi suffer because they live in areas where there are4 limited health and mental health services, leaving children untreated. The overall goal of the help me grow system is to close service gaps and provide quick access through the development of a centralized information and referral center that will (1) connect children and families to an array of community based children's health, early care, and education, family support and mental services where they live, and (2) to strengthen skills in developmental surveillance and screening and enhance the early detection of children at risk for adverse developmental and behavioral outcomes.
$313,065 spent60% of program spendingRespite program - this program provides a temporary service that allows parents of children with disabilities to have a break.
$23,472 spent4% of program spendingOther programs and events provided by the organization included a youth leadership camp for middle and high school students. This is a week long camp which focuses on equiping students with the skills, resources, and information to finish high school and enter higher education. The camp also acts as a motivational guide to enhance leadership traits working on self-esteem, teamwork, integrity, determination, and independence. Other outreach programs include realative raising others' children (roc), rated pg (positve girls), and real fly guys (realizing excellence amoung leaders/future leading youth).
$75,374 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $525,037.
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 2018 to 2019, from $247k to $186k (−25%).
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 33% · 2018 40% · 2019 20% · 2020 10% · 2022 21% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $340k → $340k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 FAMILIES FOR KIDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 12 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 FAMILIES FOR KIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 79% · 2019 82% · 2020 86% · 2021 87% · 2022 64% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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 FAMILIES FOR KIDS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FAMILIES FOR KIDS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS: 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 FAMILIES FOR KIDS?
- MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS (Mississippi) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,616,805 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($3,075,375). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,616,805 in grants to MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,075,375 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI FAMILIES FOR KIDS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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