Women's Foundation of Mississippi
Jackson, MS · EIN 26-4419982. Reported 74 grants totalling $2,831,609 to 47 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Women's Foundation of Mississippi, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P03) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 6% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 20% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below 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 $40,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $73,334. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
17 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $458,332 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teen Health Mississippi | Jackson, MS | $170,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Coahoma Community College | Clarksdale, MS | $140,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Magnolia Medical Foundation | Jackson, MS | $138,500 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Delta Community College | Moorhead, MS | $133,334 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Meridian Community College | Meridian, MS | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pearl River Community College | Poplarville, MS | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Delta State University | Cleveland, MS | $113,334 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health | Ridgeland, MS | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Strategic Solutions for Families Inc | Booneville, MS | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alcorn State University Foundation Incorporated | Lorman, MS | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Itawamba Community College | Belden, MS | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Jones County Junior College | Ellisville, MS | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mississippi Valley State University | Itta Bena, MS | $73,332 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hinds Community College | Raymond, MS | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | Oxford, MS | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation | Jackson, MS | $64,443 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Six Dimensions | Madison, MS | $61,666 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mississippi Low-Income Child-Care Initiative | Biloxi, MS | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| She Project Inc | Clinton, MS | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cary Christian Center Inc | Cary, MS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Delta Health System | Greenville, MS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Excel By 5 Inc | Houston, MS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gradus Project | Memphis, TN | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Midtown Partners Inc | Jackson, MS | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Spring Initiative Inc | Clarksdale, MS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Mississippi | University, MS | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Copiah-Lincoln Community College | Wesson, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| East Mississippi Community College | Mayhew, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Global Gateways | Jackson, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Holmes Community College Development Foundation Inc | Goodman, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northeast Mississippi Community College Development Foundation Inc | Booneville, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northwest Mississippi Community College | Senatobia, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Refill Jackson Initiative | Jackson, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Gabriel-Mercy Center | Mound Bayou, MS | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Lighthouse Black Girl Project | Jackson, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tougaloo College | Tougaloo, MS | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc | Perkinston, MS | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Defense Fund | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Madison County JOBS4YOUTH | Madison, MS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mississippi State Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc | Jackson, MS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ebony Pearls Foundation Inc | Jackson, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Finding Your Way Out of Poverty | Summit, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Institute for Child Success Inc | Greenville, SC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mississippi State University | Ms State, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Black Parents United Foundation | Aurora, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Disability Rights Mississippi | Jackson, MS | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi Foundation Inc | Jackson, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
20 of 47 (43%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Delta State University
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY ROBERT E. SMITH SCHOOL OF NURSING: ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY - Mississippi Delta Community College
SUPPORT FOR STUDENT WRAP-AROUND SERVICES - Ms Valley State University
PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS, EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE, AND WRAPAROUND SERVICES FOR STUDENTS PURSUING DEGREES IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION - Coahoma Community College
COMMUNITY COLLEGE COMPLETION PROGRAM; COMMUNITY COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE - Meridian Community College
HELPING HEALTHY EAGLES; SUPPORT FOR CONNECT2MCC WRAP-AROUND SERVICES - Pearl River Community College
TRAINING AND GRADUATING AN ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING WORKFORCE, MAKING 'WAVES' (WOMEN ACHIEVING VICTORIES AND EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS)
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 30 of 47 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $618,500 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 24 | $927,000 | $40,000 |
| 2023 | 4 | $125,000 | $30,000 |
| 2024 | 15 | $388,332 | $25,000 |
| 2025 | 18 | $772,777 | $42,500 |
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
96% 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $40,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Mississippi.
- 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 Women's Foundation of Mississippi'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: 2906 North State Street Suite 302, Jackson, MS, 39216.
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