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Board of Control for Southern Regional Education

The BOARD OF CONTROL FOR SOUTHERN REGIONAL EDUCATION shall be devoted to the task of assisting states, institutions and agencies concerned with higher education in their efforts to advance knowledge and to improve the social and economic level of the southern region.

$678k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.7MPublic Benefit$403kEnvironment$80k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $449,517, the rows itemized in this filing. The $678,394 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $228,877 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $270k
$47,700
Median grant
5
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARROL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$137,517
HALL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION$78,000
OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$54,300
GLENPOOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS$47,700
GRIFFIN SPALDING COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM$39,000
BURKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$39,000
SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM$39,000
KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Polytech School District: $10k → 11%DEANS FOR IMPACT INC: $30k → 10%GLENPOOL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $48k → 15%OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $54k → 16%GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $200k → 10%Richland Two School District: $10k → 16%Arkansas Department of Education: $543k → 17%ALABAMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $253k → 18%CARROL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $138k → 16%NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ADMINISTRATION: $25k → 13%NE Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies: $10k → 15%HALL COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $78k → 12%Jasper County Board of Education: $10k → 13%SAVANNAH-CHATHAM COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $39k → 16%GRIFFIN SPALDING COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM: $39k → 19%Metro Early College High School: $10k → 15%Marion City Schools: $10k → 17%Collins Career Technical Center: $10k → 17%Steubenville City Schools: $10k → 19%Mahoning County Career and Technical Center: $10k → 19%Berkeley County Board of Education: $10k → 11%WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $405k → 18%Maryland State Department of Education: $542k → 19%Burgin Independent Schools: $10k → 13%KENTUCKY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $15k → 14%Oklahoma State Department of Education: $611k → 16%South Carolina Department of Education: $590k → 16%ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $59k → 17%Alabama State Department of Education: $101k → 18%NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%West Virginia Department of Education: $104k → 18%MARYLAND STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $235k → 19%Kentucky State Treasurer: $10k → 14%OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $308k → 16%SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $321k → 16%Kanawha County Schools Board of Education: $10k → 18%OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $73k → 16%Kanawha County Schools Board of Education: $10k → 18%Kanawha County Schools Board of Education: $10k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
KY
WV
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 9 repeat orgs$815k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$5.3M
$380k

Still filing today

0%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $992k
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA NETWORK
    2× · 2017–2018 · $911k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK
    2× · 2017–2018 · $777k

Funded once

  • GC
    GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +72%
  • DF
    Deans for Impactgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +128%
  • KC
    KANAWHA COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $992,038 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMASOUTH CAROLINA NETWORK: $910,500 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA NETWORKUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $777,430 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKMISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $730,481 · OtherMISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONNORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $601,683 · OtherNORTHWEST TECHNICAL INSTITUTEWEST VIRGINIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $509,157 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONNORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR: $448,421 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF THE GOVERNORAlabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res: $354,033 · OtherAlabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res+18 more: $579,517 · Other+18 moreGREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationDeans for Impact: $30,000 · EducationNORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: $10,000 · EducationMETRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC: $10,000 · Education
Other$5,903,260Education$260,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDeans for Impact: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Deans for Impact ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ACADEMY FOR AEROSPACE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES ↗
  • Who funds METRO EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Share Our StrengthFeed the Children IncInvestor Protection T…The Pew Charitable Tr…GenYOUTH IncorporatedNational Fish and Wil…Dick's Sporting Goods…For Inspiration and R…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Share Our StrengthDC27.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Share Our Strength · Feed the Children Inc · Investor Protection Trust · The Pew Charitable Trusts · GenYOUTH Incorporated · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Board of Control for Southern Regional Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Board of Control for Southern Regional Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $222k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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