Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE
MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,941 to it, the largest being HIS WAY INC ($58,490). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $0
What Mississippi Sids and Infant Safety Alliance does
Mission
The Mississippi Sids and Infant Safety Alliance, inc. Provides support services to families who are or may be touched by the tragedy of sudden infant death syndrome, sudden unexplained infant death and any other infant loss. The alliance also provides training and education from current evidence-based practices on sids, suid, and a safe sleep environment to parents, professionals, caregivers, and low socioeconomic communities/individuals, and to the disadvantaged high risk populations. The mississippi sids and infant alliance also support research to help eliminate sudden infant death.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cribs for kids:since 2006, the alliance has distributed over 5300 pack-n-plays to families that were in need of a safe sleep area for their babies. This safe sleep area kept the babies safe while sleeping and helped reduce the risk of sids/suid, accidental suffocation, and other sleep-related deaths. This program has been made possible through amazing individual and business donations, grants, partnerships, and sponsorships over the past 17 years. Since 1998, through the donation of thousands of cribs, cribs for kids has been making an impact on the rates of babies dying of sudden infant death syndrome (sids) and accident suffocation. Cribs for kids is a safe-sleep education program for low-income families to help reduce the risk of injury and death of infants due to unsafe sleep environments. Cribs for kids currently has 250 partner programs in 44 states throughout the country that provide a graco pack n play crib and educational materials regarding 'safe sleeping and other important safety tips to protect your baby.
$22,558 spent100% of program spendingBaby basics:in this program the alliance travels the state of mississippi providing education on safe sleep and sids risk reduction to families who are expecting a baby or who have just had a baby. The alliance also provides this education to grandparents or any caregiver that will be taking care of an infant. The alliance was able to reach hundreds of families to provide this vital infant safety information to. Over half of this population had never heard this information or had been taught through culture and elder family members the wrong ways to keep a baby safe when they sleep. The alliance was able to provide each family with a goody bag cooler that contained baby products such as lotion, shampoo, a&d, socks, bath cloths and a toothbrush. Families were also provided a halo sleep sack that is the only product endorsed by first candle to reduce the risk of sids. They also receive the aap "caring for your baby and young child, birth to age 5" book.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNurses/social worker/professional train the trainer classes:the alliance provides train the trainer classes to professionals who come in contact with mothers of infants so that they can educate them on how to have a safe sleep environment for their infant. These professionals are provided all the tools needed to help raise safe sleep awareness and reach the population that the alliance is unable to meet with. Families will know that it is not safe to sleep with their baby and that the baby needs to be put on their back to sleep, alone in their crib with nothing in the crib except for the baby, a firm mattress and a fitted sheet. They will also learn about the alternatives for sleeping (other than the adult bed) when they cannot provide a crib for the baby.
$0 spent0% of program spendingHealth fairs:the alliance travels the state and attends health and wellness fairs providing safe sleep literature and interacts with attendees face to face to inform them of safe sleep for babies. The alliance encourages those who either know someone with an infant or grandchild to take the information with them and help raise awareness by word of mouth.bereavement services:the alliance provides help and support to families who have lost an infant to sids/suid or any infant death. The alliance has peer contacts these families can talk to as well as provide grief packets to families that the alliance receives contact information on. The alliance believes it is very important and helpful to reach these families so that they are able to talk to someone who has walked in their shoes. The alliance does not want these families to feel that they are alone in their sorrow and that there is someone there for them. The alliance has been able to provide support to hundreds of families due to the existence of ms sids & infant safety alliance. The alliance has a strong relationship with many of the families who are helped and many of these families volunteer and support the alliance at…
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,558.
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.
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 $139k to $32k (−77%).
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: 2018 23% · 2020 59% · 2021 66% · 2022 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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
Cathy Files
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $118.
1 of 3 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 SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY 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 SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
100% 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 SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $451 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.
Organizations like MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE
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In Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE?
- MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,941 to it, the largest being HIS WAY INC ($58,490). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $63,941 in grants to MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE?
- HIS WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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