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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI INC

EIN 64-0702225 MERIDIAN, MS

Largest nonprofits in Mississippi

Revenue 2024
$1,379,428
Expenses 2024
$1,041,360

Program services were 80.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 3977

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

Mission

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EAST MISSISSIPPI IS A PUBLIC CHARITY DEDICATED TO MAINTAINING, IMPROVING AND ENRICHING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN EAST MISSISSIPPI BY SUPPORTING WORTHY CAUSES, PROVIDING PHILANTHROPIC SERVICES, AND ENCOURAGING AND PROVIDING LEADERSHIP IN RESPONSE TO CHANGING COMMUNITY NEEDS. WE ARE A CATALYST FOR CHARITABLE GIVING WHERE CIVIC-MINDED INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, AND BUSINESSES CAN MEET THEIR PHILANTHROPIC GOALS. THE FOUNDATION MEETS THIS MISSION BY DEVELOPING AND MANAGING A COMPREHENSIVE BASE OF FUNDS AN EXPANDING POOL OF CHARITABLE DOLLARS, PERMANENTLY COMMITTED TO MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE OF EAST MISSISSIPPI.

  • IMPROVE COMMUNITY FOR ALL.

    Expenses $835,226 · Grants $725,391

  • IMPROVE COMMUNITY FOR ALL.

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.

  • Christen Waters

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $95,000
    From this org
    $95,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tra Alford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bob Coffin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leah Hearn

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Leslie Hiatt

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Scott Hudson

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Raquel McGee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Candace McKay

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Justin Palmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chris Phillips

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Caroline Rush

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heath Stribling

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hampton Thames

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ashley Turner

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Anna Wile

    IMMEDAITE PA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $1,379,428
    Expenses
    $1,041,360
    Contributions
    $679,642
    Grants paid
    $725,391
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,379,428
    Expenses
    $1,041,360
    Contributions
    $679,642
    Grants paid
    $725,391
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,451,764
    Expenses
    $1,020,070
    Contributions
    $937,506
    Grants paid
    $680,438
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,446,535
    Expenses
    $928,884
    Contributions
    $699,703
    Grants paid
    $691,427

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
    $1,544,885
    Expenses
    $1,383,503
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,282,703

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,369,979
    Expenses
    $969,633
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,533,853

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,602,579
    Expenses
    $1,395,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,813,296

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,022,203
    Expenses
    $615,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,631,417

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $948,839
    Expenses
    $506,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,864,709

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $528,905
    Expenses
    $362,243
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,757,902

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $733,103
    Expenses
    $551,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,239,802

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $646,635
    Expenses
    $463,293
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,712,388

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $558,550
    Expenses
    $725,384
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,284,978

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $749,161
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,895,271

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.