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Mississippi · Nonprofit
Southern Echo Inc (Mississippi) is funded by 20 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $7,520,486 in grants to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($1,778,565). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Southern Echo Inc's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,432 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
The base broadened — 1 funders to 6 as grant income moved $5k → $468k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Southern Echo Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Southern Echo Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 30% · 2020 41% · 2021 31% · 2022 35% · 2023 27% · 2024 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
42% of Southern Echo Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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.
Southern Echo Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
90% of spending goes to programs.
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 20funders 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. view filing