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PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being AARP ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$157k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$1.9M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Pearl Street Community Development does

Mission

The mission is to improve the quality of life for the economically deprived metro jackson community, provide educational opportunities, and advance economic development by meeting the social needs of disadvantaged families, youth, and senior citizens.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The summer feeding program reduces hunger and provides a nutritious breakfast and hot lunches to children during the summer month while school is out. The pearl street cdc summer feeding provided more than 7000 hot meals during the summer of 2025.

    $56,336 spent$60,341 earned by the program
    37% of program spending
  2. Afterschool tutorial the purpose of the afterschool program is to positively impact the lives of high poverty-low performing schools in the jackson area. The program is also designed to increase academic performance of each student.

    $46,473 spent$49,521 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  3. The food pantry program meets the immediate and temporary needs of families who need assistance with food. The pantry partners as a member with mississippis only food bank, mississippi food network to distribute food for families in need. The food pantry serves an average of 300 families a month.

    $24,998 spent$27,768 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  4. The early memory loss program offers assessment, support, information, and advice to those with memory problems and their caregivers. The program helps individuals maintain a social and active lifestyle. The program continue to offer virtual support during the pandemic in 2023.

    $13,453 spent$13,103 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  5. The housing program maintained a property on hariotte ave.

    $9,317 spent$9,928 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  6. Special fund. Blood pressure checks, health fair, blood pressure home monitor program, chronic disease home monitor program.

    $1,586 spent$6,100 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  7. Crop is a community based program, which is a partnership between the mississippi public institute, hinds behavorial health services and the department of mental health to promote recovery for individuals living with substance use disorders and/or mental health concerns.

    $120 spent
    0% of program spending

The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $152,283.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($28k) Net assets 100 ($538k)2021 Revenue 209 ($135k) Expenses 353 ($100k) Net assets 106 ($573k)2022 Revenue 1297 ($838k) Expenses 2621 ($744k) Net assets 226 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 223 ($144k) Expenses 606 ($172k) Net assets 97 ($524k)2024 Revenue 270 ($174k) Expenses 608 ($173k) Net assets 841 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 244 ($157k) Expenses 589 ($167k) Net assets 346 ($1.9M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (244)Expenses (589)Net assets (346)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 2023 to 2024, from $524k to $4.5M (+765%).

$538k
$573k
$1.2M
$524k
$4.5M
$1.9M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 22% · 2022 4% · 2023 42% · 2024 30% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’20
$35k
’21
$94k
’22
−$28k
’23
$2k
’24
−$10k
’25
11
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

Samuel Boyd

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed999999
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·00010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $0.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
AARPunclassified
$40k
funders
1
1
1
2
2
2
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.

Where its funders are

PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

’20
’21
’22
Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve11.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MS

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: 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 PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (Mississippi) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being AARP ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT?
AARP is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PEARL STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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