Mississippi · Nonprofit
PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC
PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,032,113 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $110k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $205k
What Parents for Public Schools of Jackson Mississippi Inc does
Mission
We work to engage and build the capacity of parents to advocate for and affect change in public schools and school systems. We work toward quality, equitable education for all children. Our programs and activities advance three primary goals: teaching parents how to become partners in the education of their children; ensuring quality teaching and learning for all children; and engaging the public in active support of educating all children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Outreach, education, and special programs for community partners, including celebration and lunch bunch forums and arts integration initiatives in schools
$98,841 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $98,841.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $502k to $319k (−36%).
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 24% · 2019 21% · 2020 34% · 2021 94% · 2022 90% · 2023 88% · 2024 91% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $340k → $43.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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 OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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
PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC: 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 PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC?
- PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,032,113 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,000,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,032,113 in grants to PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI INC?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARENTS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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