Mississippi Rising Coalition

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812382364
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Ocean Springs, MS, USA
Phone
2282191548
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Alliance/Advocacy

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,419
Expenses
$139,322
Assets
$338,219
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MORRIS MOCK (PRESIDENT)
  • LISA FOSTER (VICE-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MORRIS MOCK (PRESIDENT)
  • LISA FOSTER (VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • LEA CAMPBELL (SECRETARY AND TREASURER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We mobilize and organize people and resources to improve the well-being, quality of life and political power of marginalized mississippians.

What it reported doing in 2025

Fiscal sponsorship - cherokee concerned citizens is a fenceline community in pascagoula, ms organized to protect the health and wellbeing of our friends and neighbors from exposure to industrial pollution. We are organizing a relocation campaign for our community and are engaged in a variety of projects and strategies to achieve our goal. We work with scientists and other legal and health experts to collect environmental and health data and document, investigage and report industrical toxic trespass. We are pursuing both advocacy with mdeq and epa and at the state and local level. We are building the case and collecting the leverage we need for a legal case against industry and/or for local government action to support the buyout. Rerootd futures initative works to rebuild regeneration, abundance and justice and the southeast and gulf coast by supporting worker owned enterprise, agricultural based cooperative industry, and collective resource stewardship to anchor a regional power sharing democratic solidarity economy that upholds the human rights of those living there and beyond.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 60% for direct work, and 40% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -126.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.43; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $107K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.