Mississippi · Nonprofit
PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,058,130 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,500,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $574k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $66k
What Parents for Public Schools Inc does
Mission
Parents for public schools advances the role of families and communities in securing a high quality public education for every child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educate and inform:parents for public schools (pps) seeks to improve public education for all children by providing information and training for parents and other education stakeholders. Specific program services include the three curricula that make up the pps parent engagement program (pep). Pep-parent leadership helps parents understand accountability,curriculum standards, and other education issues that impact the education outcome of students in mississippi. Pep also helps parents develop the skills needed to be an effective education partner. The long-term outcome of the program is that parents agree to work at reducing barriers to learning in their home, community and school.pep-graduation ready is a dual generation program designed for middle school students and their parents/caregivers. In addition to including much of the information from pep-parent leadership, graduation ready focuses on graduation requirements and the various paths to graduation. This training seeks to improve attendance and graduation rates, and to help students make a smoother transition to post-secondary life. The pep-early childhood development curriculum enhances parent/caregiver understanding of…
$242,212 spent$105,337 earned by the program77% of program spendingNational capacity building & network support:although each chapter has its own identity and the ability to respond to local challenges, a chapter's work is supported by the national organization with professional expertise and collaborative power.chapters benefit from working with a network of other parents across the united states and are able to avoid "reinventing the wheel". Pps, inc. Conducts chapter training using curricula designed to enhance current and future success in all chapters, conducts regional andnational leadership conferences to provide technical assistance,strategies, and support to chapters, works to plant new chapters with a focus on school districts enrolling larger minority and disenfranchised populations, and provides capacity building support to chapters to address self-identified areas of weakness. Working with school administrators and teachers, pps parents strive to reduce barriers to learning and bring the community into the process of strengthening schools.
$70,586 spent23% of program spendingOrganize for advocacy:pps also focuses on education advocacy and works to provide pps constituents with information to assist in holding elected officials accountable for decisions that affect public education and to assess public education support by candidates for public office. Pps has developed the civic academy, a workshop that focuses on the value of fully funding public schools, providing information that citizens need to inform their choices at the ballot box.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,798.
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 2020 to 2021, from $269k to $814k (+203%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 15%. 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 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
Joann Mickens
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $400k → $191k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 88% · 2018 65% · 2019 88% · 2020 79% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 65% — 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
50% of PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k 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.
Organizations like PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Cpps of Portland Oregon Inc · exempt
- Pps of Greater Cincinnati Ohio Inc · exempt
- Pps of Greenwood & Leflore County Mississippi Inc · exempt
- Pps of Hawaii Inc · exempt
- Pps of Milwaukee Wisconsin Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC?
- PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,058,130 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,500,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,058,130 in grants to PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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.
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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 9 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