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MISSION FIRST INC

EIN 64-0797107 JACKSON, MS

Revenue 2024
$2,601,097
Expenses 2024
$2,462,806

Program services were 90.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
431 N STATE ST

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

TO PROVIDE CHRIST-CENTERED PROGRAMMING AND SERVICES THAT MEET THE SPIRITUAL, PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL, AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF THE CHILDREN, TEENS, AND ADULTS IN THE GREATER METRO JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI AREA.

  • THE ORGANIZATIONS'S MISSION IS TO RESPOND TO THE NEEDS AND PROBLEMS IN THE JACKSON METRO AREA BY PROVIDING CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES AND CHRISTIAN CARE TO PEOPLE IN NEED REGARDLESS OF AGE, SEX, OR ETHNIC BACKGROUND. THESE MINISTRIES INCLUDE A LEGAL AID OFFICE, MEDICAL AND DENTAL CLINIC, CHILDREN & YOUTH EDUCATION & SPORTS MINISTRIES, WELLNESS PROGRAM, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. IN 2024 THE ORGANIZATION ASSISTED 781 MEDICAL AND 554 DENTAL PATIENTS AND PROVIDED 220 CHILDREN WITH YOUTH SPORTS AND AFTERSCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $2,222,546 · Revenue $261,501

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • LEE THIGPEN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $149,460
    From this org
    $105,904
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,556
    Hours/week
    40

  • STEVE EDWARDS

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MALLORY ROSAMOND

    VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANN SOUTHERLAND

    SEC/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR BILL BOTELER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEMARIO DAVIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUG GUNN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE HENDERSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAMELA HOUCHINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEN JAMES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHERRY LANIER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ASHLEY MEENA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHNNY RAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TODD ADKINS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $2,601,097
    Expenses
    $2,462,806
    Contributions
    $2,284,078
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,417,409
    Expenses
    $2,501,939
    Contributions
    $3,138,237
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,705,807
    Expenses
    $2,269,571
    Contributions
    $1,480,236
    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
    $2,786,757
    Expenses
    $1,690,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,563,332

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,794,987
    Expenses
    $1,799,734
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,461,833

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,827,447
    Expenses
    $1,456,869
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,461,705

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,240,922
    Expenses
    $1,358,886
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,089,080

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,287,730
    Expenses
    $1,193,105
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,198,489

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $916,109
    Expenses
    $1,083,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,099,099

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,089,224
    Expenses
    $871,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,266,489

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $789,833
    Expenses
    $804,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,049,011

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $700,810
    Expenses
    $833,128
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,064,027

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $747,235
    Expenses
    $746,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,286,697

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

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

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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.