- Revenue 2024
- $5,858,250
- Expenses 2024
- $8,784,059
Program services were 76.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B820
- Classification
- 2100
- Street
- PO BOX 5008
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).
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.
-
Debra McGee
Board Member/Board Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $6,900
- From this org
- $6,900
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Nathan Slater
Board Member/Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $10,800
- From this org
- $10,800
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2 + 1 related
-
Andrew Mullins
Board Member Through 5/28/24
- Total calculated
- $2,700
- From this org
- $2,700
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Camille Young
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $2,400
- From this org
- $2,400
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Carla Kirkland
Board Member Beg 5/28/24
- Total calculated
- $3,900
- From this org
- $3,900
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Cedric Bradley
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $6,900
- From this org
- $6,900
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
David Martin
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $6,300
- From this org
- $6,300
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Eddie Carlisle
Board Member Through 5/28/24
- Total calculated
- $1,500
- From this org
- $1,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Errick Simmons
Board Member Beg 5/28/24
- Total calculated
- $4,200
- From this org
- $4,200
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Haley Fisackerly
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $1,500
- From this org
- $1,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
John Hill
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $7,800
- From this org
- $7,800
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Michael Cormack
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $5,700
- From this org
- $5,700
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Mike Highfield
Board Member Beg 5/28/24
- Total calculated
- $3,000
- From this org
- $3,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
Robert Leard
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $7,200
- From this org
- $7,200
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
James McHale
President/CEO
- Total calculated
- $364,027
- From this org
- $293,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $70,527
- Hours/week
- 40 + 1 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $292,708
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $792
- Deferred
- $65,927
- Nontaxable benefits
- $4,600
- Filer's total
- $364,027
-
Minette Ketchings
COO/Secretary
- Total calculated
- $198,613
- From this org
- $166,764
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $31,849
- Hours/week
- 40 + 1 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $165,972
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $792
- Deferred
- $20,204
- Nontaxable benefits
- $11,645
- Filer's total
- $198,613
-
William Alvis
CFO/Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $260,572
- From this org
- $205,906
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $54,666
- Hours/week
- 40 + 1 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $205,114
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $792
- Deferred
- $26,129
- Nontaxable benefits
- $28,537
- Filer's total
- $260,572
-
Morgan Miller
Director of Communications,
- Total calculated
- $131,039
- From this org
- $102,709
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $28,330
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Shanell Watson
Chief of Staff
- Total calculated
- $152,071
- From this org
- $119,399
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $32,672
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $119,235
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $164
- Deferred
- $15,120
- Nontaxable benefits
- $17,552
- Filer's total
- $152,071
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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $5,858,250
- Expenses
- $8,784,059
- Contributions
- $2,241,680
- Grants paid
- $1,376,110
-
2023
- Revenue
- $2,725,028
- Expenses
- $7,830,632
- Contributions
- $1,853,363
- Grants paid
- $1,187,967
-
2022
- Revenue
- $705,522
- Expenses
- $7,323,373
- Contributions
- $1,243,412
- Grants paid
- $1,152,644
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
-
2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.
Grants made
-
2024 To identify a Mississippi-based organization to coordinate the work needed for the State to reach the Ascent to 55% statewide attainment goal
-
2022 TO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE STATE TO ACHIEVE ITS POSTSECONDARY ATTAINMENT GOALS OF 55% BY 2030 AND 60% BY 2035.
-
2023 TO EXPAND ACCESS TO RIGOROUS STEM COURSEWORK, WHICH IS NOT CURRENTLYAVAILABLE IN RURAL, LOW-INCOME SCHOOLS, AND RAISE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTTHROUGHOUT THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, PARTICULARLY THE DELTA.
-
2024 To expand access to rigorous STEM coursework, which is not currently available in rural, low-income schools, and raise student achievement throughout the state of Mississippi, particularly the Delta
-
$145,887
2023 SUPPORT OF STUDENT SUCCESS
-
$135,766
2022 TO IMPROVE/INCREASE RETENTION, PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION OF MISSISSIPPI STUDENTS.
-
$133,774
2024 To support student success through professional development and data fluency
-
$125,455
2022 TO IMPROVE/INCREASE RETENTION, PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION OF MISSISSIPPI STUDENTS.
-
$114,070
2022 TO IMPROVE/INCREASE RETENTION, PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION OF MISSISSIPPI STUDENTS.
-
$108,795
2023 TO IMPROVE/INCREASE RETENTION, PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION OF MISSISSIPPI STUDENTS.
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
2023 GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
2024 General Operations
-
2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
2024 FAFSA STUDENT SUPPORT
-
2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 CATALYZING POSTSECONDARY PATHWAYS SUPPORT AT SCALE/BETTER FAFSA
-
2023 CATALYZING POSTSECONDARY PATHWAYS SUPPORT AT SCALE
-
2024 CATALYZING POSTSECONDARY PATHWAYS SUPPORT AT SCALE
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared on its 2024 return
-
Mississippi Higher Education Assistance Corporation
501(c)(3) · Higher Education Assistance · MS
Declared as related by
-
MISSISSIPPI HIGHER EDUCATION ASSISTANCE CORPORATION
On its 2024 return as a controlled entity
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility SO.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.