Funders to approach for B B King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
To operate a museum honoring bluesman b.b king, which preserves and shares the legacy and values of bb king, celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the Mississippi delta, and promotes pride, hope, and understanding through exhibitions and educational…
Your prospects by chance and grant size
a funder to approacha funder you already have
Best betsLikely, smaller grants1 in 40$29k, your typical grantunder 1 in 1001 in 1001 in 40$3k$10k$30k$100k$300kChance of a first grant within two years →Likely grant for you →
Expected from this list$0–$24kover two years, from 0–1 new funder
Last two years (2023–24)$320kfrom 2 new funders
Half the value is in your top 3 funders, of 153
FunderWay inChanceLikely grant
- Mississippi Humanities Council IncAlready funds you$13k
- 1Woodward Hines Education FoundationGives in Mississippi (16 of 30)Similar grantees: Foundation for Mississippi History ($25k/yr), Mississippi Humanities Council Inc ($7k/yr)1 in 30$40k
- 2C Spire FoundationGives in Mississippi (29 of 51)Similar grantees: Foundation for Mississippi History ($5k/yr), Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center Inc ($3k/yr), Cleveland Music Foundation Inc ($30k/yr)1 in 36$7k
- 3Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi FoundationGives in Mississippi (12 of 19)Similar grantees: Blue Mountain Christian University ($10k/yr)1 in 41$260k
- 4The Andrew W Mellon FoundationSimilar grantees: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc ($500k/yr), Birmingham Museum of Art Endowment Trust ($300k/yr), Mississippi Heritage Trust ($290k/yr)under 1 in 100$410k
- 5Phil Hardin FoundationGives in Mississippi (47 of 60)Similar grantees: Foundation for Mississippi History ($83k/yr), Chickasaw Inkana Foundation ($25k/yr), Mississippi Museum of Art Inc ($25k/yr)1 in 42$29k
- 6National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United StatesSimilar grantees: Historic Tabernacle Baptist Church- Selma Al Legacy Foundation ($200k/yr), Mississippi Heritage Trust ($53k/yr), Ivy Creek Foundation Inc ($8k/yr)1 in 47$24k
- 7Ergon Foundation IncGives in Mississippi (107 of 164)Similar grantees: Foundation for Mississippi History ($250k/yr), Baptist Health Foundation Inc ($500k/yr), MS Museum of Natural Science Foundation ($35k/yr)1 in 55$33k
- Community Foundation of Northwest MississippiAlready funds you$18k
- 8Mississippi Power Foundation IncGives in Mississippi (88 of 130)Similar grantees: Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum ($50k/yr), Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain ($11k/yr), United Way of East Mississippiinc ($31k/yr)1 in 48$12k
- Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Partnership IncAlready funds you$15k
- 9AARPSimilar grantees: Baton Rouge Blues Festival & Foundation ($10k/yr), Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ($6k/yr), Tubman African American Museum Inc ($8k/yr)1 in 57$15k
- 10Leo W Seal JR Family FoundationGives in Mississippi (34 of 63)Similar grantees: Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum ($22k/yr), The Louisiana Music & Heritage Experience Inc ($50k/yr), Prairie Belt Blues Foundation ($3k/yr)1 in 53$8k
- South Arts IncAlready funds you$15k
- Maddox FoundationAlready funds you$13k
- 11Selby and Richard McRae FoundationGives in Mississippi (39 of 66)Similar grantees: Baptist Health Foundation Inc ($20k/yr), Mississippi Museum of Art Inc ($56k/yr), Ballet Mississippi Inc ($10k/yr)under 1 in 100$20k
- 12The Hearst FoundationSimilar grantees: Mississippi Museum of Art Inc ($100k/yr)under 1 in 100$100k
- 13Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg IncGives in Mississippi (17 of 19)No similar grantees yetunder 1 in 100$140k
- 14Old Ladies Home AssociationGives in Mississippi (7 of 8)No similar grantees yetunder 1 in 100$150k
- 15James & Madeleine McMullan Family FoundationSimilar grantees: Foundation for Mississippi History ($250k/yr), Mississippi Humanities Council Inc ($15k/yr)under 1 in 100$34k
- 16Foundation for the Mid South IncGives in Mississippi (25 of 38)No similar grantees yetunder 1 in 100$23k
- 17The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationSimilar grantees: Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy ($5k/yr), Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc ($3k/yr)under 1 in 100$7k
- 18Arts Midwest IncorporatedSimilar grantees: Mississippi Valley Blues Society ($8k/yr), The Philbrook Museum of Art Inc ($15k/yr), North Dakota Museum of Art ($50k/yr)under 1 in 100$20k
- 19Hope Enterprise CorporationNo similar grantees yetunder 1 in 100$35k
- 20The Bower FoundationGives in Mississippi (9 of 12)No similar grantees yetunder 1 in 100$110k
- 21WK Kellogg FoundationSimilar grantees: Mississippi Museum of Art Inc ($130k/yr), Steamboat Era Museum Inc ($1k/yr), Augusta Museum of History Inc ($700/yr)under 1 in 100$32k
- 22Lower Pearl River Valley FoundationGives in Mississippi (10 of 14)No similar grantees yetunder 1 in 100$42k
- 23Cadence Bank FoundationSimilar grantees: Mississippi Museum of Art Inc ($14k/yr)1 in 88$3k
- 24The Dick Molpus FoundationGives in Mississippi (19 of 21)Similar grantees: Foundation for Mississippi History ($78k/yr), Prairie Belt Blues Foundation ($10k/yr), Mississippi Museum of Art Inc ($10k/yr)under 1 in 100$6k
- 25South Delta Planning & Development DistrictGives in Mississippi (6 of 12)No similar grantees yetunder 1 in 100$310k