Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,336,217 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,750,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Hope Enterprise Corporationlocal
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 42% · 2018 12% · 2019 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 4% · 2023 8% · 2024 23% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $177k → $1.8M.
7 of 46 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $165k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest South Arts Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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 MUSEUM OF ART INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 72% · 2019 36% · 2020 44% · 2021 21% · 2022 27% · 2023 33% — 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
64% of MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 MUSEUM OF ART INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 46 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 79 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hope Enterprise CorporationlocalMS · funds 73 organizations near you
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scheidt Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R & B Feder Charitable Foundation for the Beaux-Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hardy Poindexter Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The McDonnell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Century Club Charities InclocalMS · funds 30 organizations near you
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- St Dominic - Jackson Memorial HospitallocalMS · funds 22 organizations near you
- St Dominic Health Services InclocalMS · funds 15 organizations near you
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$773k
- National Endowment for the Arts$260k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
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 MUSEUM OF ART INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ms Museum of Art Foundation · exempt
- Downtown Jackson Plaza · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC?
- MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,336,217 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,750,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $11,336,217 in grants to MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC 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 46funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing