The Panola County Community Chest Fund Inc concentrates its giving on individual higher-education scholarships for local students in or around Batesville, MS. Its recent grants are direct awards to named recipients rather than institutional support, indicating a focus on enabling post-secondary education for community youth. The foundation appears to operate as a small, locally-focused scholarship fund disbursing meaningful individual awards.
Small, concentrated program: a handful of relatively large single-year scholarship awards to individual named recipients rather than many small grants or institutional support.
Panola County Community Chest Fund Inc directs its recent grantmaking almost entirely to individual scholarships, with awards reaching students from Batesville and nearby Mississippi and Tennessee communities. The largest listed grants went to Ferran Burch Schroder in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, at $41,677 and $39,892, showing that the fund supports multi-award scholarship support at meaningful levels rather than one-time small awards. Its recent recipients also include Kylie Stephens in Batesville, Hayden Sullivan in Milan, and Jamari Sloans in Batesville, each receiving multiple scholarship awards across the year. That pattern points to a local education fund that helps students move from high school into college with direct tuition assistance. The grants are personal, named awards instead of institutional operating support, and the recipient list includes a small number of students in nearby Mississippi towns as well as neighboring Tennessee locations. The presence of an illness grant to Jim Kelly Miles suggests the fund may also make occasional direct aid outside scholarship support, but scholarships remain the core of the portfolio.
The foundation’s clearest cause area is postsecondary scholarship support. It gave $31,172 to Kylie Stephens in Batesville for scholarship support, along with additional scholarship awards to the same recipient later in the year. Similar direct awards went to Hayden Sullivan in Milan, who received two scholarship grants, and to Jaylen Bobo in Courtland. These individual grants show a hands-on student-aid model rather than institutional education funding. The fund also supports students across the transition from high school to college through repeated awards to the same recipients. That pattern appears in Batesville-based students such as Jamari Sloans, Lily Avery, and Adrienne Jackson, each listed more than once. A smaller non-scholarship grant appears in the recent list as well: $500 to Jim Kelly Miles for illness.
Typical grant sizes cluster in the low five figures, with a p25 of $4,409, a median of $11,216, and a p75 of $18,571. The recent list also shows repeated awards to the same individuals within the same year, including Ferran Burch Schroder, Kylie Stephens, Hayden Sullivan, Jamari Sloans, Lily Avery, Jaylen Bobo, Mary Farish, and Adrienne Jackson. That suggests an annual scholarship model with multiple disbursements rather than a single one-off award. The fund makes direct grants to individuals and does not appear to use program-related investments. The latest filing year on file is 2025.
$325K
$9K
$155K
$154K
Most grants fall between $4K and $19K, with a median of $11K.
25th Percentile
$4K
Median
$11K
75th Percentile
$19K
About 83% of grants go to recipients in MS.
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Notable grantees: Ferran Burch Schroder, Hayden Sullivan, Memunatu Tahiru, Jamari Sloans
Giving is local and heavily centered in Mississippi: 83% of grants go to recipients in the foundation’s HQ state. Batesville appears repeatedly among recipient locations, along with Courtland, Senatobia, Oxford, University, and Hernando. Outside Mississippi, the recent list includes recipients in Murfreesboro and Milan, Tennessee, plus Gallatin, Tennessee. All listed grants are in the United States.
It funds individual scholarships most often. The recent grant list is dominated by scholarship awards to students such as Ferran Burch Schroder, Kylie Stephens, Hayden Sullivan, and Jamari Sloans, with multiple awards to the same students across the year.
Typical grants fall in the low five figures. The grant-size distribution is p25 $4,409, median $11,216, and p75 $18,571.
Yes. Recent recipients include students in Courtland, Senatobia, Oxford, University, Hernando, Murfreesboro, Milan, and Gallatin, showing that the scholarship pattern reaches beyond Batesville while staying local to the region.
It makes direct grants to individuals. The recent awards are named scholarships to students, and the data also shows one direct illness grant to Jim Kelly Miles.
Yes. Mississippi is the top state by grant count, and 83% of grants go to recipients in the HQ state. The full recent-grant country distribution is U.S.-only.
2025
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2025.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FERRAN BURCH SCHRODER | MURFREESBORO, TN | $41,677 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| FERRAN BURCH SCHRODER | MURFREESBORO, TN | $39,892 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| KYLIE STEPHENS | BATESVILLE, MS | $31,172 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| HAYDEN SULLIVAN | MILAN, TN | $30,777 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| HAYDEN SULLIVAN | MILAN, TN | $21,758 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| MEMUNATU TAHIRU | UNIVERSITY, MS | $18,712 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| JAMARI SLOANS | BATESVILLE, MS | $18,524 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| KYLIE STEPHENS | BATESVILLE, MS | $16,895 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| JAMARI SLOANS | BATESVILLE, MS | $16,123 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| JAYLEN BOBO | COURTLAND, MS | $14,663 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| LILY AVERY | BATESVILLE, MS | $11,996 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| CARA WALDRUP | BATESVILLE, MS | $10,865 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| THOMAS BOATNER | SENATOBIA, MS | $10,435 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| JADARIUS BOBO | COURTLAND, MS | $8,517 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| LILY AVERY | BATESVILLE, MS | $6,340 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| JOSEPH JACK-WYATT EAST | OXFORD, MS | $5,480 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| JAYLEN BOBO | COURTLAND, MS | $5,363 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| ADRIENNE JACKSON | BATESVILLE, MS | $4,735 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| MARY FARISH | BATESVILLE, MS | $3,430 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| OLIVIA HARVEY | GALLATIN, TN | $3,000 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| SAVANNAH MALLETT | HERNANDO, MS | $1,910 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| ALTON LEE | BATESVILLE, MS | $1,269 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| MARY FARISH | BATESVILLE, MS | $892 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
| JIM KELLY MILES | BATESVILLE, MS | $500 | 2025 | ILLNESS |
| ADRIENNE JACKSON | BATESVILLE, MS | $223 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP |
FERRAN BURCH SCHRODER
$41,677SCHOLARSHIP
FERRAN BURCH SCHRODER
$39,892SCHOLARSHIP
KYLIE STEPHENS
$31,172SCHOLARSHIP
HAYDEN SULLIVAN
$30,777SCHOLARSHIP
HAYDEN SULLIVAN
$21,758SCHOLARSHIP
MEMUNATU TAHIRU
$18,712SCHOLARSHIP
JAMARI SLOANS
SCHOLARSHIP
KYLIE STEPHENS
$16,895SCHOLARSHIP
JAMARI SLOANS
$16,123SCHOLARSHIP
JAYLEN BOBO
$14,663SCHOLARSHIP
LILY AVERY
$11,996SCHOLARSHIP
CARA WALDRUP
$10,865SCHOLARSHIP
THOMAS BOATNER
$10,435SCHOLARSHIP
JADARIUS BOBO
$8,517SCHOLARSHIP
LILY AVERY
$6,340SCHOLARSHIP
JOSEPH JACK-WYATT EAST
$5,480SCHOLARSHIP
JAYLEN BOBO
$5,363SCHOLARSHIP
ADRIENNE JACKSON
$4,735SCHOLARSHIP
MARY FARISH
$3,430SCHOLARSHIP
OLIVIA HARVEY
$3,000SCHOLARSHIP
SAVANNAH MALLETT
$1,910SCHOLARSHIP
ALTON LEE
$1,269SCHOLARSHIP
MARY FARISH
$892SCHOLARSHIP
JIM KELLY MILES
$500ILLNESS
ADRIENNE JACKSON
$223SCHOLARSHIP