Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Jackson, Mississippi

74
foundations with a Jackson address
$35.9M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
16
say they accept unsolicited
$5,994
median grant

Grantlas lists 74 foundations that gave a Jackson, Mississippi address on their tax filing — 70 private foundations and 4 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $35.9 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 16 of them (22%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Jackson foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 74 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Jackson, Mississippi
The Luckyday FoundationAccepts$17,500$6.9M$250–$2.7MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
James W Hood Family FoundationAccepts$6,000$354,500$2,500–$300,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Twordc FoundationAccepts$5,000$137,500$1,400–$75,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Laura C Higdon Charitable FoundationAccepts$1,000$95,500$500–$2,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
First National Bank CharitableAccepts$1,416$87,804$400–$34,699FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation inAccepts$5,000$81,260$3,000–$81,260FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Better Life FoundationAccepts$10,000$62,000$5,000–$30,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Southern Historical Preservation SocietyAccepts$3,450$26,216$392–$7,615FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Adrian & Marie Downing Educational TrustAccepts$1,000$17,800$500–$1,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles B Perkins & Josephine P PerkinsAccepts$2,500$15,000$500–$5,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bill McCarty III FoundationAccepts$8,000$13,250$5,250–$329,571FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joanna F Reed Medical Scholarship TrustAccepts$2,022$8,088$2,022–$4,044FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Providence FoundationAccepts$4,000$8,000$500–$7,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
James E Fowler Family FoundationAccepts$1,000$8,000$1,000–$2,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
V Hall Foundation IncAccepts$50$320$20–$250FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Barksdale FoundationAccepts$150$150—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Community Foundation for MississippiCommunity foundationNot stated$19,500Over $5k only$6.7M$5,500–$800,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
John E Morris Testamentary TrustGrantmaking charityNot stated$60,274Over $5k only$62,716$57,831–$62,716FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ebony Pearls Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$17,267—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
New Horizon Ministries IncPublic foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$14,037—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ergon Foundation IncInvitation only$25,000$10.8M$2,500–$615,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Selby and Richard McRae FoundationInvitation only$25,000$2.4M$71–$310,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Wheaton FoundationInvitation only$18,000$2.3M$1,100–$726,271FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Van Devender Family FoundationInvitation only$5,000$760,050$200–$202,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Joseph Treadwell Charitable FoundationInvitation only$10,000$717,705$1,500–$357,496FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

49 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.