Mississippi · Nonprofit
Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc
Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,050 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $-378966
What Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc does
Mission
We provide a caring and nurturing environment for at-risk children
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Southern Foundation is the Sponsor to a Family Day Care Home Program Child Care Food Program and a Summer Feeding Service Program administered by the State of MS Dept of Education in which individuals and centers provide nutritious meals to school-age at-risk children
$2,597,283 spentof which $1,864,542 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,597,283.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $418k to $1.5M (+264%).
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: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 82% · 2021 98% · 2022 92% · 2023 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Gwendolyn Gray
CEO
Board chair
Katie Pittman
Board President
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $50k → $50.
From the IRS filings of Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 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
Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,903 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like Southern Foundation for Homeless Children 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Southern Foundation for Homeless Children 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 Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc?
- Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc (Mississippi) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,050 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,050 in grants to Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc?
- SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southern Foundation for Homeless Children 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 3 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