Mississippi · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,959,051 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($3,677,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Women's Foundation of Mississippi does
Mission
To improve the lives of women & girls by promoting social change & economic self-sufficiency through advocacy & strategic grantmaking.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the Women's Foundation of Mississippi is economic security for women in the state. The foundation does this by cultivating social change through research, public education and awareness efforts, and a competitive grantmaking process. The foundation is committed to helping mississippi's women and girls transcend the state's dire social and economic barriers. The organization seeks to create long-term opportunity for personal stability and stronger families. Women have a better chance at economic stability when they can access proper healthcare, earn a degree or receive relevant job training, and pursue a viable career with a livable income.key activities and accomplishments by the foundation in 2025 include:- ongoing management of an annual grants program including: public announcement of the opportunity, review of applications both in writing and in person, review of grantee reports, evaluation of grantee projects, and ongoing communication with grantees. - collaborating with grantees and sharing best practices across organizations through in person and virtual meetings.- providing training programs for women.- providing education and community engagement…
$1,276,417 spentof which $797,477 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,276,417.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.2M to $4.2M (+31%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Melanie Powell
Executive director
Board chair
Michelle Owens
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $255k → $1.1M.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI’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
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 96% · 2019 83% · 2020 37% · 2021 52% · 2022 54% · 2023 33% — 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
41% of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $759k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
31%
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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: 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 WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI?
- WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI (Mississippi) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,959,051 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($3,677,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $7,959,051 in grants to WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,677,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF 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 23 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