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Preselected only
The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.
Assets and giving by year
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Tax year 2025
$1,250
- Grants listed
- 4
- Assets, end of year
- $1,115
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Tax year 2024
$0
- Grants listed
- 1
- Assets, end of year
- $3,064
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Tax year 2023
$350
- Grants listed
- 1
- Assets, end of year
- $5,017
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Tax year 2022
$0
- Grants listed
- 0
- Assets, end of year
- $5,075
Grants paid in 2025
As listed on the return.
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Sankofa Food Sovereignty AllianceGreenville, MS
To support their Union Street Community Garden summer youth project. Funds were used to assist in providing small stipends for participating youth.
$500 -
Support Sports in Sierra Leone IncAtlanta, GA
To support Hill Station Clean Cooking Project to fund two short videos and general operations. Project is part of Sports in Sierra Leone Inc. which works with youth to promote playing tennis. Through their work theyve discovered food security and environmental health are major issues. The goal of the project is to upgrade the stoves that mothers of the children in the low-income Hill Station neighborhood of Freetown Sierra Leone use to cook their meals. The expected outcomes from providing upgraded cookstoves to cook with are a reduction in the consumption of charcoal a reduction in the amount of money spent on charcoal as fuel to cook food and a reduction in breathing problems caused by cooking with traditional cookstoves; thus helping to improve food security and environmental health.
$500 -
Greenville Arts Council for Step AfrikaGreenville, MS
To support general fund for the Step Afrika! Presents The Evolution Tour; performance by dance group that promotes stepping as an educational tool for young people focusing on teamwork academic achievement and cross-cultural understanding.
$150 -
MS Food NetworkJackson, MS
To support their mission to distribute food and feed vulnerable people in MS. Donations are used to distribute food and goods through 430 member agencies; who in turn distribute to recipients in their respective communities.
$100
Where the money goes
By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.
- Food and agriculture1 grant $50050% of the total
- Youth development1 grant $50050% of the total
By State
Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.
- Mississippi3 grants $750
- Georgia1 grant $500
Officers, directors and trustees
As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.
- Ellen HarrisChair Secretary Hours 2Pay $0
- Cassandra AtleyTreasurer Hours 1Pay $0
- Deirdra ChesterMember Hours 1Pay $0
- Rachel VossMember Hours 1Pay $0
- Jon Phelps SteeleMember Hours 1Pay $0
- Dominique Joseph MDMember Hours 1Pay $0
The return
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