Mississippi · Nonprofit
PROGRAM BELIEVE
PROGRAM BELIEVE (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,134,250 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($961,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $419k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $236k
What Program Believe does
Mission
Our mission is to assist the most under-served, vulnerable and low-income communities of the mississippi gulf coast with educational resources and immigration legal services that are affordable and impactful.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Summer enrichment - the summer enrichment program is held for 6 weeks from june to july. This program is designed for under-served, disadvantaged children to help prevent learning loss in reading, writing and math skills during the summer break. Daily instruction includes lessons in phonics, vocabulary building, oral reading, spelling, basic mathematics, keyboarding and word processing. Reading strategies are practiced each day to improve proficiency in reading comprehension and writing skills. Skillful exercises which focus on recalling information directly from the text, prediction, inference and character traits are also practiced. Students are exposed to various fun activities from different organizations throughout the coast that will help them to acquire basic skills for life.
$14,296 spent32% of program spendingImmigration legal services - Program Believe provides low-cost immigration services to those who are unable to contract the services of a private attorney and provides these services regardless of race, religion, sex, or ethnic origin.
$30,024 spent68% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $44,320.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $156k to $237k (+52%).
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.
100% of PROGRAM BELIEVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Melanie Nelson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $183k → $255k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 PROGRAM BELIEVE’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
PROGRAM BELIEVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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
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 PROGRAM BELIEVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 82% · 2023 88% — growing more concentrated.
“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
85% of PROGRAM BELIEVE'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 $173k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $961k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PROGRAM BELIEVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PROGRAM BELIEVE
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
4% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROGRAM BELIEVE: 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 PROGRAM BELIEVE?
- PROGRAM BELIEVE (Mississippi) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,134,250 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($961,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROGRAM BELIEVE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,134,250 in grants to PROGRAM BELIEVE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROGRAM BELIEVE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $961,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROGRAM BELIEVE 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 2021–2024), 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