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MPB FOUNDATION

MPB FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,105 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($251,993). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$559k
Net assets
$4.3M
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Mpb Foundation does

Mission

Support of educational public broadcasting in mississippi via support to ms authority for educational television (doing business as mississippi public broadcasting, "mpb")

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Benefit and support ms authority for educational television

    $883,884 spentof which $630,118 as grants$2,603,876 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $883,884.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($954k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 61 ($1.6M) Expenses 186 ($1.8M) Net assets 93 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 70 ($1.9M) Expenses 176 ($1.7M) Net assets 102 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 73 ($1.9M) Expenses 162 ($1.5M) Net assets 121 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 73 ($2.0M) Expenses 188 ($1.8M) Net assets 145 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 71 ($1.9M) Expenses 159 ($1.5M) Net assets 167 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 80 ($2.1M) Expenses 184 ($1.8M) Net assets 188 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 89 ($2.4M) Expenses 205 ($2.0M) Net assets 212 ($3.7M)2025 Revenue 98 ($2.6M) Expenses 206 ($2.0M) Net assets 249 ($4.3M)
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Revenue (98)Expenses (206)Net assets (249)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.8M to $4.4M (+17%).

$1.8M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.2M
$2.6M
$3.0M
$3.4M
$3.8M
$4.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

79% of MPB FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.7M
’17
−$143k
’18
$183k
’19
$397k
’20
$164k
’21
$374k
’22
$379k
’23
$411k
’24
$642k
’25
17
months of
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

Angela C Ferraez

Executive director

Board chair

George B Ready

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed771717519192223
Joined·+1+12+0+1+15+4+4+4
No longer listed·120131413
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $30k → $129k.

8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 MPB FOUNDATION’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

MPB FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

96% 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 MPB FOUNDATION.

45%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 63% · 2019 83% · 2020 72% · 2021 94% · 2022 60% · 2023 43% — 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.

How long its funders stay

33% of MPB FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

96% of MPB FOUNDATION'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Mississippi, across 7 states.

MI
NY
CT
NC
MS
AL
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MPB FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MPB FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

45% of spending goes to programs.

Program 45%Management 3%Fundraising 52%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MS

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mississippi Authority for Educational Television · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MPB FOUNDATION?
MPB FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,105 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($251,993). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MPB FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $559,105 in grants to MPB FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MPB FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $251,993 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MPB FOUNDATION 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 16 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