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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION

EIN 64-6022505 HATTIESBURG, MS

Revenue 2024
$27,673,521
Expenses 2024
$14,922,122

Program services were 82.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
2000
Street
118 COLLEGE DRIVE 5210

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.

  • STACE MERCIER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $174,627
    From this org
    $142,034
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,593
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $139,640
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $2,394
    Deferred
    $25,012
    Nontaxable benefits
    $7,581
    Filer's total
    $174,627

  • ELISSA ERNST

    CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $129,991
    From this org
    $104,572
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,419
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $104,572
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $18,673
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,746
    Filer's total
    $129,991

  • LESLEE SMITH

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $118,316
    From this org
    $87,337
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,979
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $87,337
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,903
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,076
    Filer's total
    $118,316

  • CHRIS ANDERSON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.52

  • OMAR NELSON

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.54

  • WADE HOWK TREASURER

    AND FINANCE COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.23

  • JOE QUINLAN

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.52

  • REBECCA BOUDREAUX

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.27

  • CARLEN CHESTANG

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.38

  • ALAN COATS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.83

  • LISA CONN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.42

  • BEVERLY DALE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.96

  • ROBERT DONNELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.46

  • CINDY GADDIS

    MEMBER-AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.6

  • TOM GIBBENS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.35

  • KEVIN GILBERT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.29

  • CAROL JONES-RUSSELL

    POLICY AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.29

  • SCOTT LANEHART

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.44

  • JOY LIGHTSEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

  • VICKIE LOCK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.4

  • ADELE LYONS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.46

  • KEITH MOONEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.54

  • GERALD MUMFORD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.62

  • JENNIFER PAYNE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.33

  • RHONDA PHILLIPS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.15

The first 25 listed. 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
    $27,673,521
    Expenses
    $14,922,122
    Contributions
    $14,051,527
    Grants paid
    $10,872,479
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $26,790,188
    Expenses
    $12,071,547
    Contributions
    $21,197,951
    Grants paid
    $9,174,632
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $17,712,238
    Expenses
    $12,862,991
    Contributions
    $14,389,191
    Grants paid
    $8,889,935

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 as related by

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.