- Revenue 2024
- $94,138,122
- Expenses 2024
- $84,503,429
Program services were 65.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- PO BOX BT
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.
-
BO MCKINNIS
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
BRANDI LONG
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
DAVID ABNEY
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
BENJI NELSON
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
ALVIN FRANKLIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
STEVE GOLDING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
VALERIE HALL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RODGER JOHNSON
DIRECTOR AS OF 1/2025
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MIKE MCDANIEL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JANICE NICHOLSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TERRI RUSSELL
DIRECTOR AS OF 7/2024
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CRAIG TATUM
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JERRY TONEY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANTHONY WILSON
DIRECTOR UNTIL 12/2024
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DEAN WINGO
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
FLOYD WOMACK
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOSHUA MCCOWAN
CEO
- Total calculated
- $298,784
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $239,937
- Other
- $58,847
- Hours/week
- 30 + 10 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $232,310 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $7,627 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $42,688 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $16,159 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $298,784 related
-
TIMOTHY PADGETT
CFO UNTIL 2/2025
- Total calculated
- $186,932
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $154,905
- Other
- $32,027
- Hours/week
- 15 + 25 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $145,780 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $9,125 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $25,327 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $6,700 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $186,932 related
-
CHRISTOPHER JANS
HEAD BASKETBALL COACH
- Total calculated
- $4,213,797
- From this org
- $3,200,000
- From related orgs
- $940,462
- Other
- $73,335
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $3,200,000 + $904,376 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $36,086 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $61,755 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $11,580 related
- Filer's total
- $3,200,000 + $1,013,797 related
-
JEFFREY LEBBY
HEAD FOOTBALL COACH
- Total calculated
- $4,482,827
- From this org
- $3,450,000
- From related orgs
- $908,524
- Other
- $124,303
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $3,450,000 + $788,938 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $119,586 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $105,466 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $18,837 related
- Filer's total
- $3,450,000 + $1,032,827 related
-
CHRIS LEMONIS
HEAD BASEBALL COACH UNTIL 4/2025
- Total calculated
- $1,427,723
- From this org
- $485,000
- From related orgs
- $864,671
- Other
- $78,052
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $465,000 + $852,573 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $20,000 + $12,098 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $61,755 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $16,297 related
- Filer's total
- $485,000 + $942,723 related
-
ZACHARY SELMON
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $1,338,640
- From this org
- $833,333
- From related orgs
- $427,213
- Other
- $78,094
- Hours/week
- 16 + 24 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $833,333 + $422,745 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $4,468 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $61,875 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $16,219 related
- Filer's total
- $833,333 + $505,307 related
-
ZACHARY ARNETT
FORMER HEAD FOOTBALL COACH
- Total calculated
- $1,426,210
- From this org
- $1,126,210
- From related orgs
- $300,000
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $1,126,210 + $300,000 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $1,126,210 + $300,000 related
-
BENJAMIN HOWLAND
FORMER HEAD BASKETBALL COACH
- Total calculated
- $885,000
- From this org
- $885,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $885,000
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $885,000
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
- $94,138,122
- Expenses
- $84,503,429
- Contributions
- $58,791,642
- Grants paid
- $39,294,715
-
2023
- Revenue
- $50,555,260
- Expenses
- $66,650,443
- Contributions
- $23,766,777
- Grants paid
- $48,889,521
-
2022
- Revenue
- $41,325,229
- Expenses
- $63,159,233
- Contributions
- $33,619,922
- Grants paid
- $45,773,547
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
-
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
-
$28,903,293
2024 MSU STUDENT ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIPS AND ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT SUPPORT
-
$27,499,446
2023 FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS
-
$26,638,589
2022 FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS
-
$20,640,075
2023 MSU STUDENT ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIPS AND ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT SUPPORT
-
$12,867,005
2022 PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENT ATHLETES THAT ATTEND MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY.
-
$10,391,422
2024 FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS
-
2022 SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE
-
2023 SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE
Grants received
-
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
$2,253,784
2023 PROVIDE CONTRIBUTED FUNDS DESIGNATED TO SUPPORT THE MSU ATHLETIC PROGRAMS
-
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
$1,799,555
2022 PROVIDE CONTRIBUTED FUNDS DESIGNATED TO SUPPORT THE MSU ATHLETIC PROGRAMS
-
$1,025,000
2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
-
$400,000
2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
-
$100,000
2023 GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
$100,000
2024 GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
$90,000
2023 ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS
-
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING
$84,650
2024 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANIMALS
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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
-
115(1) · UNIVERSITY · MS
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 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.