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12 funders with a record of paying for “mississippi”
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Wk Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI
206 matching grants · $65.4M · through 2024Largest: $99,669 to MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY — support mississippi's children to have a more robust, accurate and accessible understanding of our state's history by digitizing information, resources and stories of the two missi…
Largest: $150,000 to The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund — to study ways to improve the coordination of management of the mississippi river and identify specific legal issues and opportunities that will increase successful adaptation to th…
Community Foundation for MississippiJackson, MSCharity · may take applications
88 matching grants · $9.0M · through 2024Largest: $800,000 to MISSISSIPPI CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION — general oper support
Largest: $7,500 to MISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE FEDERATION — donation to help conseve mississippi's natural reources and protect wildlife legacy
Largest: $40,762 to MISSISSIPPI FOOD NETWORK INC — program support
Largest: $223,786 to Mississippi State University — scholarships - alonzo, andino, bailey, gibson, frazure, hardy, harrison, horton, howard, jackson, love, moore, o'bryant, owah, parker, pittman, rodgers, russell, sanders, schulle, …
Woodward Hines Education FoundationJackson, MSCharity · may take applications
35 matching grants · $2.7M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to Propel Education Forum of Mississippi Inc — to identify a mississippi-based organization to coordinate the work needed for the state to reach the ascent to 55% statewide attainment goal
Largest: $200,000 to THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — children' mississippi campaign
Mississippi Humanities CouncilJackson, MSCharity · may take applications
50 matching grants · $455,568 · through 2023Largest: $11,935 to MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY — to promote humanities in mississippi public life
Largest: $100,000 to MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — adkerson endowed graduate fellowship
Largest: $25,000 to Mississippi Children's Museum — mississippi science festival stem
Foundation for the Mid SouthJackson, MSCharity · may take applications
32 matching grants · $1.0M · through 2024Largest: $15,000 to ONE VOICE INC (MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS — to serve as an economic inclusion coalition partner and work together with other partners to advance an economic inclusion coalition across mississippi. specifically, to: (1) ident…
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →