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Warren a Hood JR Family Foundation

Hattiesburg, MS · EIN 20-5928288. Reported 33 grants totalling $2,768,500 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$2,768,500granted, 2021-2024
20organizations funded
53%of grantees funded again the next year
$17.3Massets, latest filing

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. Warren a Hood JR Family Foundation 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 $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
1 grant
$1,000 - $5,000
3 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
7 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
Cleveland Clinic Philanthropy InstituteCleveland, OH$1,400,000442024
Baptist Medical & Dental Mission InternationalHattiesburg, MS$500,000112021
Usm FoundationHattiesburg, MS$320,000222024
Parkway Heights UMCHattiesburg, MS$310,000222023
Pine Burr Area CouncilHattiesburg, MS$60,000332024
Extra TableHattiesburg, MS$30,000222024
Edwards Street Fellowship CenterHattiesburg, MS$20,000222024
First Priority South MsHattiesburg, MS$20,000112022
Presbyterian Christian SchoolHattiesburg, MS$20,000112023
Real Christian FoundationRichland, MS$20,000112023
Christian Services IncHattiesburg, MS$12,000222024
Diabetes Foundation of MississippiRidegland, MS$10,000222024
Millsaps CollegeJackson, MS$10,000222024
Pinebelt FoundationHattieburg, MS$10,000112023
United Methodist HourHattiesburg, MS$10,000112023
Hope Rising MississippiBrandon, MS$6,000112022
American Heart AssociationJackson, MS$5,000112022
The 3D SchoolPetal, MS$4,000222024
Kids Hub Child Advocacy CenterHattiesburg, MS$1,000112023
Hattiesburg Arts CouncilHattiesburg, MS$500112023

10 of 20 (50%) 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 53%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 12 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
5 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Food & Nutrition
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
International Affairs
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20212$833,333$416,666
20226$404,333$15,000
202316$767,834$10,000
20249$763,000$10,000

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.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 51% of this one's giving went to organizations in Ohio. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Ohio
$1.4M
Mississippi
$1.4M

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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 $10,000. 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 Ohio.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Warren a Hood JR Family Foundation'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: 1978 Hood Blvd Suite 300, Hattiesburg, MS, 39401. 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 20-5928288 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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