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Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Inc

Hattiesburg, MS · EIN 64-0692161. Reported 56 grants totalling $34.0M to 28 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$125,000median grant
$34.0Mgranted, 2021-2024
28organizations funded
55%of grantees funded again the next year

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $125,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $50,000 and $240,700; the smallest was $873 and the largest $8,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 and Up
33 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
William Carey University FoundationHattiesburg, MS$8,000,000112023
Jones County Junior College FoundationEllisvile, MS$6,578,537222023
Pearl River Community CollegePoplarville, MS$6,200,000222023
University of Southern MississippiHattiesburg, MS$6,000,000112023
William Carey UniversityHattiesburg, MS$1,200,000222022
Fellowship of Christian AthletesRidgeland, MS$715,000332023
Christian Services of AmericaHattiesburg, MS$700,000332023
Mount Olive MinistriesMt Olive, MS$487,400332023
Edwards Street MissionHattiesburg, MS$450,873442024
Extra Table IncHattiesburg, MS$450,000332023
Homes of Hope for ChildrenPurvis, MS$425,000222023
The United Way of Southeast MississippiHattiesburg, MS$400,000222023
The Salvation ArmyHattiesburg, MS$389,130332023
Christian Food Missions IncLaurel, MS$350,000332023
Dynamic Dyslexia Design SchoolPetal, MS$250,000112021
University of Southern Mississippi Wesley FoundationHattiesburg, MS$240,000112023
Abbie Rogers Civitian Camp Endowment FundHattiesburg, MS$231,359112022
Make-a-Wish FoundationRidgeland, MS$225,000332023
Area Development PartnershipHattiesburg, MS$160,000332023
Association for Retarded CitizensHattiesburg, MS$150,000222023
Mission at the CrossLaurel, MS$105,449222023
Hattiesburg Convention CommissionHattiesburg, MS$100,000112023
Kids HubHattiesburg, MS$80,976112023
Canopy Children's SolutionsHattiesburg, MS$46,490112021
Aldersgate MissionHattiesburg, MS$40,000112021
Mission MississippiJackson, MS$35,000332023
Life Line Children's ServicesJackson, MS$25,000112021
City of HattiesburgHattiesburg, MS$13,000112023

17 of 28 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 55%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Youth Development
3 grants
Civil Rights
3 grants
Community Improvement
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant
Religion
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202120$3,127,320$125,000
202213$1,730,508$54,149
202322$29.2M$187,500
20241$873$873

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Inc has 1 of them, worth $43,978. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.

OrganizationLocationApproved
Edwards Street MissionHattiesburg, MS$43,978

Where its money goes

Hattiesburg, MS
$18.7M
Ellisvile, MS
$6.6M
Poplarville, MS
$6.2M
Ridgeland, MS
$940K
Mt Olive, MS
$487K
Laurel, MS
$455K
Purvis, MS
$425K
Petal, MS
$250K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $125,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Mississippi.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1 North Point, Hattiesburg, MS, 39402. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 64-0692161 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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