Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE (Mississippi) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,858,958 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,059,769). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $490k
What Mississippi Public Health Institute does
Mission
To promote and advocate public health in the state of mississippi through professional development and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mississippi Public Health Institute (msphi) is implementing projects that have significant impact on public and mental health systems as well as primary care in mississippi. These projects focus on innovative practices, evidence-based intervention, evaluation, and true stakeholder engagement in mississippi. Key partners include the mississippi state department of health (msdh), the mississippi department of mental health (mdmh) as well as several foundations. A significant and challenging health disparity in mississippi is infant and maternal morbidity and mortality among african americans. For a number of reasons, african american women are more often affected. Mississippi maternal health innovation task force is to reduce maternal mortality and severe morbidity through comprehensive strategies that improve access to high-quality care and support for mothers. This includes focusing on maternal mental health, expanding programs like centering pregnancy, improving provider education, and addressing issues like medicaid reenrollment and social determinants of health. This collaboration brings together hospitals, community health centers, and providers to address the critical…
$9,314,413 spent$4,783,447 earned by the program69% of program spendingTo ensure the future of the state's public health and mental health workforce, msphi continued its program of workforce development, the mississippi behavioral health learning network (mbhln) (www.msbhln.org), for the mississippi deparment of mental health facilitating the provision of training and continuing education for publicly funded mental health service providers. This activity is leveraged to include broad training needs related to public health and primary care systems and providers. For 2025, msphi has continued the trend of increasing the number of individuals who participate in training activities.
$3,808,542 spent28% of program spendingAs a partner to mississippi's public health system, msphi has been at the forefront of the state's covid-19 response. Msphi received funding in 2025 from the department of health and cdc to assist with multiple covid-19-related programs and projects aimed at institutions and individuals. Msphi received a significant supplement to cdc reach funding from cdc's immunization bureau. With this funding msphi supported community-based activities that increased immunization rates and compliance among african americans along the mississippi gulf coast.
$365,404 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,488,359.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $2.0M (+67%).
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 56% · 2018 72% · 2019 69% · 2020 80% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% · 2024 76% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Roy Hart
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $161k.
From the IRS filings of MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE’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 PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 96% · 2022 91% · 2023 50% — 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
MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$14.8M
- Department of Justice$494k
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 PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE
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
90% 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 PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: 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 PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE (Mississippi) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,858,958 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,059,769). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,858,958 in grants to MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,059,769 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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