Mississippi · Nonprofit
MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP
MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,640 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($445,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $487k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Mississippis Lower Delta Partnership does
Mission
Contribute to local charitable organizations, educate populace regarding local history and wildlife issues, promote conservation of wildlife, nature, and historical sites
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mississippi's lower delta partnership (ldp) is engaged in promoting nature and heritage tourism in area. Ldp provides numerous efforts to help improve and support mississippi's south delta and its residents. Ldp host lectures promoting the nature, history and culture of mississippi's south delta. It works with local partners to develop a brochure highlighting local facilities, telling the theodore roosevelt teddy bear story and mapping a tour of the chain saw carved bears. Ldp host a youth fishing rodeo in the delta national forest that gives disadvantaged children the opportunity to participate in this sport as well as promotes one of our great natural resources. Ldp host the great delta bear affair festival actvities.
$111,658 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $111,658.
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 $167k to $208k (+24%).
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: 2020 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Fred Miller
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $500 → $134k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP’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
MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 86% · 2020 94% · 2021 87% · 2022 92% · 2023 97% — 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
MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP?
- MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,640 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($445,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $486,640 in grants to MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSISSIPPIS LOWER DELTA PARTNERSHIP 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 6 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