(Image from Non-Profit Spending Dashboard)
- Nearly 93%, or $3.92 billion, of the expenditures listed remained in Mississippi. However, non-profits in every state except Hawaii received funds from Mississippi, as shown on the Auditor’s dashboard.
State Auditor Shad White announced Monday that his office had launched a new online Non-Profit Spending Dashboard showing where Mississippi tax dollars are being spent.
The dashboard includes a searchable database by state agency or non-profit as well as a map showing where the monies are being sent, with one expenditure listed as far away as Alaska.
Since July 2020, the Auditor’s office says Mississippi state agencies have paid non-profit organizations over $4.2 billion in taxpayer dollars. Mississippi state agencies paid non-profits over $650 million in Fiscal Year 2026, representing an increase from the previous fiscal year.
Nearly 93%, or $3.92 billion, of the expenditures listed remained in Mississippi.
While non-profits in every state except Hawaii received funds from Mississippi, as shown on the Auditor’s dashboard, the highest spending funneled to other states included:
- $94.3 million in Tennessee
- $28.7 million in Alabama
- $25.3 million in Georgia
- $15.7 million in Oregon
- $12.5 million in Connecticut
- $10.2 million in Illinois
- $8.8 million in New York
- $8.3 million in California
- $7.4 million in Texas
- $7.3 million in North Carolina
- $7.3 million in Maryland
“Before we started working on this project, no one in state government could tell us how much money was given to non-profits,” Auditor White said in a statement. “Mississippians have every right to know exactly where their hard-earned tax dollars are sent, and now they can see it for themselves.”
“State government spends more of your money on non-profits than paying off the state’s debt,” added White.
The Auditor’s office gathered data from the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration’s transparency website. It was noted that that data did not include expenditures to Mississippi public universities, community colleges, public school districts, or MPACT tuition payments.
It was further noted that that the Auditor’s office supplemented missing DFA records with IRS records when needed and available.
The state agencies with the highest spending with non-profits since 2020 were:
- Department of Mental Health – $240 million
- Department of Education – $596 million
- Department of Human Services – $683 million
- Department of Finance and Administration – $741 million
- Department of Health – $792 million
The public can review the Non-Profit Spending Dashboard here.
