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MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP
MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP (Mississippi) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,351,270 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($893,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $752k
What Mississippi Journalism and Education Group does
Mission
To publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political, and systemic challenges facing all mississipians and their communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Supports and promotes independent journalism in mississippi and elsewhere; collaborates with partners on substainable journalism and civic engagement intiatives; provides public education about journalism, and training for promising new journalists.
$988,564 spent$40,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $988,564.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $471k to $945k (+101%).
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.
96% of MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Donna Ladd
CEO
Board chair
Michael Dozier
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $20k → $604k.
12 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 65% · 2022 80% · 2023 32% — 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.
Where its funders are
59% of MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP'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 $969k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Mississippi, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP: 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 JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP?
- MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP (Mississippi) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,351,270 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($893,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,351,270 in grants to MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $893,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI JOURNALISM AND EDUCATION GROUP 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 33 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