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RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC

RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $56,530 to it, the largest being MISSISSIPPI HILLS HERITAGE AREA ALLIANCE ($56,530). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$326k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$57k
Net assets
$442k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Ripley Main Street Association Inc does

Mission

To foster, promote, maintain and encourage the civic, social, commercial, tourist and economic welfare of the uptown and downtown portions of ripley, tippah county, mississippi.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Hosted festivals to promote the community, hundreds of community residents participated in the festivals

  2. Organized city beautification projects, businesses and hundreds of community residents participated in these projects

  3. Promoted uptown and downtown businesses through promotions

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($44k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2018 Revenue 156 ($69k) Expenses 161 ($68k) Net assets 118 ($11k)2019 Revenue 143 ($64k) Expenses 157 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2020 Revenue 154 ($68k) Expenses 140 ($60k) Net assets 197 ($18k)2021 Revenue 438 ($195k) Expenses 396 ($168k) Net assets 498 ($45k)2022 Revenue 341 ($152k) Expenses 320 ($136k) Net assets 675 ($61k)2023 Revenue 1011 ($450k) Expenses 275 ($117k) Net assets 4394 ($394k)2024 Revenue 733 ($326k) Expenses 650 ($276k) Net assets 4934 ($442k)
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Revenue (733)Expenses (650)Net assets (4934)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 2022 to 2023, from $62k to $405k (+553%).

$11k
$13k
$12k
$20k
$54k
$62k
$405k
$444k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 89% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$795
’18
−$3k
’19
$9k
’20
$27k
’21
$16k
’22
$333k
’23
$51k
’24
18
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.

20232024
Listed87
Joined·+1
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.

MS

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

RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve17.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC?
RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $56,530 to it, the largest being MISSISSIPPI HILLS HERITAGE AREA ALLIANCE ($56,530). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $56,530 in grants to RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION INC?
MISSISSIPPI HILLS HERITAGE AREA ALLIANCE is the largest funder on record, with $56,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIPLEY MAIN STREET ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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