MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B01

Classification

1000

Street

1220 E NORTHSIDE DR STE 170 PMB 222

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• THIS PAST YEAR, THE MISSISSIPPI EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE (MELA) WORKED ALONGSIDE FAMILIES, EDUCATORS, BUSINESSES, AND POLICYMAKERS TO STRENGTHEN THE SYSTEMS THAT SUPPORT CHILDREN FROM BIRTH TO AGE THREE.THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI FORUM FOR THE FUTURE, THE COALITION MELA LEADS AS THE BACKBONE CONTINUED TO GROW BY BRINGING TOGETHER DIVERSE VOICES, CLARIFYING ROLES, AND SETTING A COMMON AGENDA FOR CHANGE AND HAD 180 MEMBERS AT THE END OF JUNE 2025. MELA ALSO WORKED TO BUILD PUBLIC WILL FOR INFANT AND TODDLER ISSUES. THANKS TO TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND FUNDING FROM THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION, ZERO TO THREE, MELA HAS BEEN COORDINATING A COLLECTIVE MESSAGE CAMPAIGN, BUILT FOR BABIES, THAT WAS LAUNCHED IN THE FALL OF 2025. MELA SUPPORTED PARTNERS, ELEVATED CHILD CARE, AND PAID FAMILY LEAVE VIA OP-EDS IN MISSISSIPPI MEDIA TO INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUPPORTING BABIES DURING THEIR EARLIEST DAYS AND YEARS. THE RESULT HAS BEEN A STRONGER, MORE CONSISTENT VOICE FOR BABIES AND FAMILIES ACROSS THE STATE.AS IMPORTANTLY, MELA WORKED TO EDUCATE OTHERS ABOUT POTENTIAL PRENATAL-TO-FIVE POLICY CHANGES FOR OUR STATE. MELA KEPT THE EARLY CHILDHOOD COMMUNITY CONNECTED THROUGH CAPITOL DAY, THE ADVOCACY COUNCIL, AND LEGISLATIVE UPDATES. MELA PRESENTED THE LABOR FORCE REPORT TO THE MISSISSIPPI SENATE AND SUPPORTED THE MISSISSIPPI ECONOMIC COUNCIL CHILD CARE TASK FORCE. MELA ALSO DEVELOPED A GUIDE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE FOR HOW BUSINESSES CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MISSISSIPPI BUSINESS CHILD CARE TAX CREDIT THAT WAS PASSED IN 2023.

  Expenses $430,868 · Revenue $61,165

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $559,111

  Expenses

  $547,097

  Contributions

  $459,500

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $625,193

  Expenses

  $481,952

  Contributions

  $589,871

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $657,548

  Expenses

  $521,840

  Contributions

  $647,389

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $656,960

  Expenses

  $556,033

  Assets (EOY)

  $602,273

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,000,419

  Expenses

  $748,246

  Assets (EOY)

  $421,257

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $784,720

  Expenses

  $618,462

  Assets (EOY)

  $196,433

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period

1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018

Principal officer

Morgana Freeman

Mailing address

143 yazoo avenueclarksdale MS 38614

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI

  $192,050

  2023 · GENERAL OPER SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI

  $125,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPER SUPPORT

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI

  $62,500

  2024 · GENERAL OPER SUPPORT

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