Mississippi · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,984,887 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($2,458,706). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Special Olympics Mississippi Inc does
Mission
The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sports and programs: special olympics mississippi provides year-round olympic-type sports for approximately 5,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. There are more than 200 competitions held each year at the state and local levels. The largest competitions are the state-level spring games, summer games, fall games, and flag football tournament.
$680,175 spent77% of program spendingArea management and programs: special olympics mississippi is divided into 17 multi-county areas. Each area is run by a volunteer director that implements sports competitions and fundraising events throughout the year.
$84,341 spent10% of program spendingPublic education and communications: special olympivs mississippi offers health screenings for vision, dental, and hearing. Approximately 400 screenings are performed by licensed health care providers annually. The young athletes and unified champion schools programs help provide inclusion and acceptance through sports between individuals with and without intellectual disabilities.
$115,765 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $880,281.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $763k to $947k (+24%).
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: 2019 13% · 2020 37% · 2021 43% · 2022 32% · 2023 46% · 2024 53% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $210k → $489k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 94% · 2019 93% · 2020 84% · 2021 85% · 2022 66% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
63% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,767 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,984,887 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($2,458,706). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,984,887 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,458,706 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing