GrantmakersMississippi

His Way Inc

Ridgeland, MS · EIN 64-0733014. Reported 65 grants totalling $2,637,114 to 30 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

30organizations funded
$35,448median reported grant
$2,637,114granted, 2021-2024
59%of grantees funded again the next year
12%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For His Way Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 12% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 59% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $35,448. Half of what it reported fell between $24,600 and $49,100; the smallest was $5,023 and the largest $148,401. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

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.
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
12 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
33 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Regional Rehabilitation Center IncTupelo, MS$315,108442024
Homes of Hope for Children IncPurvis, MS$281,506222022
Court Appointed Special Advocates of South MississippiBay St Louis, MS$200,028442024
Magnolia Speech School for the DeafMadison, MS$185,984332024
Sunnybrook Childrens Home IncRidgeland, MS$153,505442024
Community of Christians Helping YouthPicayune, MS$141,112442024
But God MinistriesMadison, MS$128,082332023
Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth IncJackson, MS$125,077442024
Family Resource Center of Ne MsTupelo, MS$123,818332023
Community Care Network IncOcean Springs, MS$111,514332023
His Heart IncJackson, MS$96,500332024
Kids HubHattiesburg, MS$81,500222024
Harbor Day SchoolJackson, MS$64,202332024
Sally Kate Winters Family ServicesWest Point, MS$60,657332024
Ms Sids AllianceMadison, MS$52,490222022
SR1Ridgeland, MS$50,000112021
Central Mississippi Down Syndrome IncJackson, MS$49,400112023
Cherished Hearts IncLaurel, MS$48,356112024
Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty IncCanton, MS$47,603112023
Christians in Action IncJackson, MS$45,000112021
Southwest Mississippi Childrens Advocacy Center IncMccomb, MS$44,675112021
Easter Seals Mississippi IncTupelo, MS$38,068112024
Stewpot Community Services IncJackson, MS$37,500112023
Natchez Childrens Home ServicesNatchez, MS$37,095222022
Quiet Waters Ministries IncCanton, MS$35,448112023
Wesley House Community CenterKnoxville, TN$29,948112023
Hope Haven of Hancock CountyBay St Louis, MS$18,710222024
Childrens Advocacy Centers of Mississippi CacmJackson, MS$18,023222024
Willowood Developmental Center IncJackson, MS$10,000112022
Know MinistriesMadison, MS$6,205112021

18 of 30 (60%) 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 30 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.

Human Services
8 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Religion
3 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Crime & Legal
2 orgs
Health Care
1 org
International Affairs
1 org
Mental Health
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202118$930,602$44,837
202217$563,447$27,563
202316$664,214$40,465
202414$478,851$33,452

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

99% 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.

Mississippi
$2.6M
Tennessee
$30K

Down to the city

Tupelo, MS
$477K
Jackson, MS
$446K
Madison, MS
$373K
Purvis, MS
$282K
Bay St Louis, MS
$219K
Ridgeland, MS
$204K

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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 the strongest signal available 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation for Mississippi6 shared recipientsNational Children's Alliance Inc6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsNetwork for Good5 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $35,448 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Mississippi.
  4. 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 His Way 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: Po Box 3343, Ridgeland, MS, 39158.

EIN 64-0733014 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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