Grantmakers

Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Mississippi

These 24 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in Mississippi that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

24grantmaking charities
$299.3Mgranted between them
2,291funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific grantmaker is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Mississippi Food Network IncJackson$23,702357$152.2M
Community Foundation for MississippiJackson$17,000305$27.2M
Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncGulfport$10,205261$13.1M
Pinebelt FoundationHattiesburg$13,029237$22.5M
Community Foundation of NorthwestHernando$15,000223$15.8M
Hope Enterprise CorporationJackson$10,000120$8.2M
Mississippi Humanities Council IncJackson$10,00081$1.3M
Community Foundation of EastMeridian$12,00074$2.6M
Methodist Foundation of MississippiRidgeland$11,48070$2.1M
Century Club Charities IncRidgeland$12,00057$7.7M
United Way of Northeast Mississippi IncTupelo$15,00054$6.2M
Eight Days of Hope IncTupelo$15,00049$1.8M
Innovate MississippiJackson$10,70148$2.1M
Women's Foundation of MississippiJackson$40,00047$2.8M
Healthy Centers Healthy KidsJackson$22,94345$1.3M
Foundation for the Mid South IncJackson$15,00040$1.5M
St Dominic - Jackson Memorial HospitalJackson$20,00039$5.6M
Gulf of Mexico AllianceOcean Springs$35,23635$4.9M
His Way IncRidgeland$35,44830$2.6M
Woodward Hines Education FoundationJackson$50,00030$4.1M
Cooperative EnergyHattiesburg$25,00025$1.6M
Mississippi Hills Heritage AreaUniversity$20,00022$898K
Community Health Center Assoc of MsJackson$69,68422$10.4M
Mississippi Delta National HeritageCleveland$16,00020$666K
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.

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