Mississippi Nurses' Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 640696983
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Madison, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6018980850
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $856,193
- Expenses
- $692,064
- Assets
- $3,151,163
- Liabilities
- $7,023
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amanda Crawford (Executive Director)
- Leigh Anne Puckett (President)
- Karen George (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Amanda Crawford (Executive Director): $122,207 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Mississippi Nurses' Foundation raises, accepts, and disperses charitable donations to promote professional nursing and better health in Mississippi.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Mississippi Nurses Foundation provides scholarships, stipends, and grants to nursing students and registered nurses throughout the state of Mississippi who are pursuing degrees in nursing.For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, the Foundation awarded $109,750 in car tag stipends to 45 nursing students and nurses pursuing degrees across the educational continuum (AD, BSN, MSN, PhD, and DNP). The Foundation also provides stipends to nurses to attend the state's annual convention; this year, $8,504 was awarded to 29 recipients.Each year, the Foundation awards spring and fall scholarships to nursing students at each of the 24 nursing schools in Mississippi. This year, a total of $57,000 in scholarships was awarded to 60 recipients. In addition, the Foundation awarded 12 scholarships totaling $10,250 through the generosity of outside donors.The Foundation's Nurse in Need program provides financial assistance of up to $500 to Mississippi nurses who are members of the Mississippi Nurses Association facing hardship, such as loss of employment, physical injury, natural disaster, travel costs, childcare needs, or medical supplies. This year, one recipient received $500 in financial assistance.In addition to scholarships and stipends, the Foundation awards PhD research grants to nursing schools with a qualified applicant. A $5,000 research grant was awarded this fiscal year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 62% for direct work, and 38% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 21
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.55; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 16 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $567K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.