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UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 238 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,879,262 to it, the largest being THE LUCKYDAY FOUNDATION TRUSTMARK NATIONAL BANK TRUSTEE ($18,424,500). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$116M
Revenue FY2025
238
Funders on record
$85M
Grants received
$899M
Net assets
138/238 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%

Against its field

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 671 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($74M) Expenses 100 ($37M) Net assets 100 ($504M)2018 Revenue 99 ($73M) Expenses 113 ($42M) Net assets 108 ($546M)2019 Revenue 93 ($69M) Expenses 108 ($40M) Net assets 115 ($579M)2020 Revenue 111 ($82M) Expenses 117 ($43M) Net assets 114 ($575M)2021 Revenue 88 ($65M) Expenses 206 ($76M) Net assets 135 ($680M)2022 Revenue 141 ($104M) Expenses 126 ($46M) Net assets 129 ($648M)2023 Revenue 129 ($96M) Expenses 123 ($45M) Net assets 143 ($719M)2024 Revenue 138 ($102M) Expenses 145 ($53M) Net assets 156 ($787M)2025 Revenue 157 ($116M) Expenses 142 ($52M) Net assets 178 ($899M)
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Revenue (157)Expenses (142)Net assets (178)Peer revenue range

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

82% of UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 729 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$37M
17
$31M
18
$29M
19
$39M
20
$11M
21
$57M
22
$50M
23
$49M
24
$64M
25
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 48 funders to 86 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $14M.

51 of 238 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)38% 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: $25M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mississippi Common Fund Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 238 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

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

59% 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 UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION.

22%
largest funder
41%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 45% · 2019 51% · 2020 23% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 15%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

43% of UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

68% of UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
DE
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

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 238 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.

Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Mississippi

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 6%Fundraising 5%

Governance

37
board members
97%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 19 states

AK
NH
WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
WV
MD
AR
LA
MS
FL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Univ of Miss Foundation Realty LLC · disregarded
  • Mississippi Common Fund Trust · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Unitrust (5) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION?
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 238 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,879,262 to it, the largest being THE LUCKYDAY FOUNDATION TRUSTMARK NATIONAL BANK TRUSTEE ($18,424,500). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 238 organizations giving $84,879,262 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION, 138 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION?
THE LUCKYDAY FOUNDATION TRUSTMARK NATIONAL BANK TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $18,424,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION 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 238funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing