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Century Club Charities Inc

Ridgeland, MS · EIN 64-0843787. Reported 134 grants totalling $7,688,121 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.

57organizations funded
$12,000median reported grant
$7,688,121granted, 2021-2025
77%of grantees funded again the next year
72%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Century Club Charities Inc, the IRS classifies it under recreation & sports rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE N6AJ) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 72% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $1,501,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
37 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
73 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Friends of Childrens Hospital IncFlowood, MS$5,501,500552025
Life Enhancement and Achievement ProgramFlowood, MS$368,000552025
Stewpot Community Services IncJackson, MS$141,620552025
Make a Wish Foundation of Mississippi CharteredRidgeland, MS$135,000552025
Ummc FoundationJackson, MS$100,000112022
World Golf Foundation IncPonte Vedra, FL$100,000222022
Magnolia Speech School for the DeafMadison, MS$95,500442025
Mississippi S Toughest Kids FoundationCrystal Spgs, MS$90,000442025
Mustard SeedBrandon, MS$67,000442025
Boy Scouts of AmericaFlowood, MS$62,750442025
Mississippi Childrens Home SocietyJackson, MS$61,667332024
100 Black Men of Jackson IncJackson, MS$57,500332025
Young LifeColorado Spgs, CO$54,000442025
Living Independence for Everyone IncJackson, MS$52,000552025
Mississippi CollegeClinton, MS$45,000332025
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi IncJackson, MS$44,250332024
Christ United Methodist ChurchJackson, MS$43,000442025
Mississippi Childrens Advocacy Center IncPearl, MS$41,000442025
We Will GoJackson, MS$41,000442025
Vsa Mississippi IncJackson, MS$37,500442025
Millsaps CollegeJackson, MS$36,500332025
Mississippi Food Network IncJackson, MS$31,000332025
Brain Injury Association of MississippiJackson, MS$30,500222024
Hospice MinistriesRidgeland, MS$30,500442025
Mississippi Metropolitan BalletMadison, MS$30,000332025
Jackson Heart FoundationJackson, MS$27,167332024
Harbor Day SchoolJackson, MS$26,000222025
Extra Table Feeds IncHattiesburg, MS$25,000222025
Cheshire AbbeyJackson, MS$24,000222025
Tupelo Lee Humane SocietyTupelo, MS$20,000112025
Reclaimed ProjectJackson, MS$18,000222023
Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty IncCanton, MS$16,500222025
Baptist Health FoundationLittle Rock, AR$15,000112024
Mcclean Fletcher CenterJackson, MS$15,000222025
Mission MississippiJackson, MS$15,000222025
American Foundation for Suicide PreventionNew York, NY$14,000222025
Chapel of the Cross Episcopal ChurchMadison, MS$14,000222025
Apparo Academy IncAugusta, GA$10,000112024
Boys & Girls Clubs of East Mississippi IncMeridian, MS$10,000112025
Briarwood Arts FoundationJackson, MS$10,000112024
Delta State University Foundation IncCleveland, MS$10,000112024
Glory House Global OutreachLaurel, MS$10,000112025
Our Daily Bread Ministries TrustGrand Rapids, MI$10,000112024
Mississippi Canine Therapy Dogs$8,750112022
Seth Harris Childhood Cancer Foundation IncBay Springs, MS$8,750112022
First Presbyterian Day School IncMacon, GA$8,000112022
In His Steps Ministries IncCanton, MS$8,000112022
Ballet Mississippi IncJackson, MS$7,500112022
Christian Food Mission IncLaurel, MS$7,500112025
First Baptist Church of Madison IncMadison, MS$7,500112024
Unite Mississippi FoundationMadison, MS$7,500112025
United Way of the Pine Belt RegionLaurel, MS$7,500112025
Jackson Leadership FoundationJackson, MS$7,000112023
Mission First IncJackson, MS$6,667112022
American Heart Association IncDallas, TX$6,000112025
Mississippi Golf Association IncPearl, MS$5,500112023
Mississippi Sports Foundation IncJackson, MS$5,500112025

34 of 57 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
4 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Religion
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
4 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
Recreation & Sports
3 orgs
Food & Nutrition
3 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20217$1,659,000$25,000
202228$1,531,501$12,250
202327$1,382,000$12,500
202436$1,597,000$10,500
202536$1,518,620$10,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

97% of its giving went to organizations in Mississippi. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Mississippi
$7.5M
Florida
$100K
Colorado
$54K
Georgia
$18K
Arkansas
$15K
New York
$14K
Michigan
$10K
Texas
$6K

Down to the city

Flowood, MS
$5.9M
Jackson, MS
$838K
Ridgeland, MS
$166K
Madison, MS
$154K
Ponte Vedra, FL
$100K
Crystal Spgs, MS
$90K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund23 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc23 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation for Mississippi20 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc16 shared recipientsRaymond James Charitable Endowment Fund13 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America12 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Mississippi.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Century Club Charities Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 285 Marketridge Drive, Ridgeland, MS, 39157.

EIN 64-0843787 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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