Foundation for the Mid South Inc
Jackson, MS · EIN 72-1151070. Reported 57 grants totalling $1,516,900 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Foundation for the Mid South Inc, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S30Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 38% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $8,800 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi Engaged | Jackson, MS | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation | Jackson, MS | $195,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boss Lady Economic Planning & Development Workforce | Cleveland, MS | $166,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| One Voice | Jackson, MS | $150,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Votes | Jackson, MS | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mississippi Urban League Inc | Jackson, MS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health | Ridgeland, MS | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Jackson, MS | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Action for Community Education Inc | Greenville, MS | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Springboard to Opportunities | Jackson, MS | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Medgar Evers Institute | Jackson, MS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | Montgomery, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Arkansas | Pine Bluff, AR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Defense Fund | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Compurecycling Center Inc | Greenville, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Higher Purpose Co | Clarksdale, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mississippi Community Financial Access Coalition | Greenwood, MS | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nova Workforce Institute of Northeast Louisiana Inc | Monroe, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Reaching Educating for Community Hope Foundation | Jackson, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jackson State University | Jackson, MS | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Millsaps College | Jackson, MS | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mission Mississippi | Jackson, MS | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Neshoba Youth Coalition Leadership Program | Philadelphia, MS | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tougaloo College | Tougaloo, MS | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Welcome Table Collaborative | Jackson, MS | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Social Entrepreneurship | Jackson, MS | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Highlander Research & Education Center Inc | New Market, TN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kaho Healthcare Training Facility | Brookhaven, MS | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mid South Community College Foundat Ion Inc | West Memphis, AR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Moore Community House | Biloxi, MS | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southeast Ark Economic Development Dist Inc | Pine Bluff, AR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Copiah-Lincoln Junior College Foundation Inc | Wesson, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Everlasting Knowledge Academy | Jonesboro, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fourth Circuit Drug Intervention Court | Greenville, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hinds Community College Foundation | Raymond, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Iaje | Jackson, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jackson Medical Mall Foundation | Jackson, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office - Deputies Making a Change | Monroe, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Mary Council on Aging Inc | Franklin, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
9 of 40 (22%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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.
- Mississippi Engaged
TO ADDRESS, EDUCATE, AND COORDINATE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES TO STRENGTHEN AND CONNECT PROGRESSIVE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVISTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF INCREASING VOTER PARTICIPATION STATEWIDE. - Mississippi Black Women's Roundtable
TO SERVE AS AN ECONOMIC INCLUSION COALITION PARTNER AND WORK TOGETHER WITH OTHER PARTNERS TO ADVANCE AN ECONOMIC INCLUSION COALITION ACROSS MISSISSIPPI. - One Voice Inc
TO SUPPORT EFFORTS TO INCREASE VOTER ENGAGEMENT AROUND ISSUES OF ECONOMIC AND RACIAL JUSTICE. - Boss Lady Economic Planning & Development Workforce Transportation
TO ASSIST INDIVIDUALS IN SEVERAL RURAL COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA WITH OBTAINING WORKFORCE OPPORTUNITIES WITH TRANSPORTATION WHO LIVE IN SUNFLOWER COUNTY AN DACROSS THE DELTA REGION. - Mississippi Urban League
TO SUPPORT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN IDA PROGRAM FOR INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATING IN THE SIPPS MOTHERS' FORUM. - Mississippi Action for Community Education
TO SUPPORT EFFORTS TO DEMONSTRATE TO LOCAL RESIDENTS THAT A HEALTHY COMMUNITY IS SYNONYMOUS WITH A PROSPEROUS COMMUNITY THROUGH KEY ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION AT THE ANNUAL MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND DELTA DIALOGUE.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 | 20 | $403,000 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 7 | $149,600 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $556,300 | $18,000 |
| 2024 | 14 | $408,000 | $15,000 |
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
87% 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
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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 $15,000 -- 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 Foundation for the Mid South Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I 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: 134 East Amite Street, Jackson, MS, 39201.
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