Mississippi · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,811,851 to it, the largest being Mississippi Power Foundation Inc ($1,071,121). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $983k
What United Way of South Mississippi does
Mission
United way leads positive change that transforms our community and improves people's lives in our impact area. We advance the common good by investing in our greatest asset - our children and their families - to create a better tommorrow today.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
United Way of South Mississippi, which serves hancock, harrison, pearl river, and stone counties, awarded $215,000 in community impact grants in fye 2024. Grants awarded are multi-year community impact grants to 12 local nonprofit agencies carefully selected by a volunteer community investment team. Additional impact initiatives included the singlecare prescription drug savings card and the volunteer income tax assistance (vita) program, which returned $6,347,697.00 to the area through free tax preparation services.
$710,797 spentof which $621,494 as grants46% of program spendingDuring fye 2024, United Way of South Mississippi worked to develop and implement long-term solutions to address school readiness and grade-level reading. Data from the annie e. Casey foundation 2024 kids count data book shows mississippi's overall rank of 49 in child and family well-being across the u.s. Using 16 key indicators in four domains: economic well-being; education; health; family & community. According to this data, 50% of young children ages 3 to 4 are not in school. In addition, the same study indicates 69% of mississippi's fourth graders are not at grade level proficiency in reading. Uwsm believes the community's most critical resources are children and families, and United Way of South Mississippi invested resources through several education initiatives. Initiatives included dolly parton's imagination library, which distributed 18,451 free books to local children; and prek4ward, which offers tuition-free preschool to 180 area children across 9 classrooms. Additionally, uwsm funds the nourishing place's enhance after school tutoring program, manna ministries head and heart tutoring program, university of southern mississippi's children's center, and moore community…
$686,545 spentof which $34,533 as grants44% of program spendingIn fye 2024 United Way of South Mississippi provided, through volunteers and special projects, critical community services. Volunteers signed up for opportunities through the organization's volunteers and special projects portal and were fielded in the community through events such as the annual mlk day of action. Volunteers logged a total of 912 hours with a monetary impact of $226,058. Additionally, uwsm directed a martin luther king, jr. Day of service diaper drive which generated 18,376 diapers and a "fill the bus" school supply drive which generated 34,057 school supplies distributed to children and families in need across the four counties United Way of South Mississippi serves.
$155,882 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,553,224.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.3M to $2.5M (−23%).
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: 2024 29% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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
Kathy Springer
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $215k → $423k.
10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $161k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc); $141k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way of South Mississippi). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 86% · 2019 22% · 2020 26% · 2021 26% · 2022 51% · 2023 91% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
84% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,811,851 to it, the largest being Mississippi Power Foundation Inc ($1,071,121). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,811,851 in grants to UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI?
- Mississippi Power Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,071,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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