Mississippi auditor posts a dashboard of $4.2 billion in state payments to nonprofits since 2020
State Auditor Shad White's office launched the Nonprofit Spending Dashboard on Oct. 19. It lists payments by agency, nonprofit and fiscal year from July 2020 on, drawn from the state's own transparency records.
Mississippi state payments to nonprofits since fiscal 2021, the five largest agencies
Jackson. Anyone can now look up how much money Mississippi state agencies have paid to nonprofit organizations, and which ones, on a dashboard State Auditor Shad White's office put on its website on Oct. 19.
The Nonprofit Spending Dashboard puts the total at about $4.23 billion paid since July 2020, the start of fiscal year 2021. Visitors can search by agency or by nonprofit, filter by fiscal year and by the state where a nonprofit is located, and see each payment in a table that lists the year, the paying agency, the recipient and the amount.
Where the numbers come from
The data comes from the transparency website of the Department of Finance and Administration, and the names follow a vendor list that department provided, according to notes on the dashboard. The auditor's office says it filled in missing records with IRS records where it needed to and could. The figures leave out payments to public universities, community colleges and public school districts, and MPACT tuition payments. The notes say the information is current as of Oct. 1.
The dashboard's chart of totals by agency shows five departments. The Department of Health paid about $792 million to nonprofits over the period, the Department of Finance and Administration about $741 million, the Department of Human Services about $683 million, the Department of Education about $596 million and the Department of Mental Health about $240 million. In fiscal year 2026 alone, state agencies paid nonprofits more than $650 million, an increase over the year before, the auditor's office said.
What the auditor said
Mr. White said that before the project, no one in state government could say how much money went to nonprofits. His office's announcement also repeated examples from its earlier reviews of how several nonprofits spent state money, most of it passed through the Department of Health, and invited the public to report suspected fraud, waste or abuse by nonprofits that spend public funds.
“Mississippians have every right to know exactly where their hard-earned tax dollars are sent, and now they can see it for themselves.”
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