Established in 1994, the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson is one of more than 700 community foundations in the United States today. We serve the interests of Hinds, Rankin and Madison Counties by offering donors a variety of ways to touch our community through philanthropic giving.

Today the Foundation manages more than 100 funds consisting of $13 million in endowed assets and $6 million in pass-through assets. We have managed the distribution of up to $3.6 million in annual grants with cumulative grants of more than $17 million to date.

Faced in the early 1990s with the fact that Jackson was the largest city in the southeastern United States without a community foundation, a 15-member task force of the Leadership Jackson Alumni Association set forth the goal of establishing such an organization for central Mississippi. The Foundation was incorporated in March 1994 under the name The Greater Jackson Foundation.

In early 2001, the Foundation changed its name to the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson. This was done because a community has no “city limits.” A community is not defined by a particular governmental unit. A community is more accurately a geographic area in which residents share a common interest in the greater good of all, as we do in Hinds, Madison and Rankin Counties. We wanted our name to reflect our commonality, our community. This is your community foundation.