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Campaign For Southern Equality

The Campaign for Southern Equality works for full LGBTQ equality - both legal and lived - across the South.

$440k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Health$155kCivil Rights$29k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $40,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $439,839 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $399,839 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.
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Your Choices Center for Reproductive Health$30,000
Queer Med$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Gender Benders: $10k → 10%Trust Women Foundation: $5k → 16%Your Choices Center for Reproductive Health: $30k → 17%Planned Parenthood South Atlantic: $5k → 8%Western North Carolina Community Health Services: $38k → 12%Queer Med: $10k → 14%Gender Benders: $7k → 10%Choices Medical Services PC: $15k → 17%Mountain Area Health Education Center: $13k → 12%Queer Med: $5k → 14%Gender Benders: $6k → 10%Western North Carolina Community Health Services: $10k → 12%Western NC Community Health Services: $10k → 12%WNC Community Health Services: $10k → 12%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$150k · 4 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$150k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+21%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’22’23’24
HealthEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • WN
    WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +110%
  • CM
    Choices Medical Services PC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue -4%
  • GB
    GENDER BENDERS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $23k

Funded once

  • MA
    MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue ×13
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +21%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Memphis Center for Reproductive Health Inc

Choices mission is to provide patient-centered medical care and to champion sexual and reproductive rights, because CHOICES envisions a world where sexual and reproductive health care is recognized as an essential human right.

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2
New Morning

New Mornings mission is to transform healthcare in partnership with communities, providers, and patients to ensure that everyone can obtain high-quality sexual and reproductive health services.

Philanthropy
3
Feminist Womens Health Center Inc

The FWHC, which is located in Atlanta, Georgia, provides accessible gynecological health care to all who need it without judgement. As innovative health care leaders, we work collaboratively in the community and nationally to promote…

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4
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
5
Carolina Pregnancy Center

We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.

Health
6
Access Reproductive Care - Southeast

Provide funding and logistical support to ensure southerners receive safe and compassionate reproductive care including abortion services. through education and leadership development we build power in communities of color to abolish…

Environment
7
Options360 Women's Clinic

Options360 Womens Clinic provides evidence-based educational and medical services related to sexual health in a caring and respectful environment.

Civil Rights
8
We Health Clinic P a

We health clinic provides, advances, and advocates for evidence-based reproductive and sexual health care for all.

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9
Women's Accessible Medical Services Ps

To provide compassionate evidence-based reproductive health care and related educational and consultative services, in a respectful environment, to all women, regardless of their beliefs or ability to pay, based on the understanding that…

Health
10
The Birth Center

The birth center dba lifecycle wellness and birth center is an independent non-profit organization and free-standing, out-of-hospital birth center. our team of midwives and nurse-practitioners provide empowering gynecology and…

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11
Women's Health Center of West Virginia Inc

The mission of the women's health center is to provide and to advocate for access to affordable, high quality health services, addressing the special needs of women in a manner that respects their dignity, right of reproductive choice,…

Civil Rights
12
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc

The mission of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Inc. (PPGC) is to ensure the right and ability of all individuals to manage their sexual and reproductive health by providing health services, education and advocacy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western North Carolina Community Health Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gender Benders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $67,500 · OtherWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCGENDER BENDERS: $22,628 · OtherGENDER BENDERSQueer Med: $15,000 · OtherQueer MedChoices Medical Services PC: $45,000 · HealthChoices Medical Services PCPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC…Trust Women Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthTrust Women Foundation IncMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $12,500 · EducationSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $6,000 · Public BenefitMISSISSIPPI RISING COALITION: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$105,128Health$55,000Education$12,500Public Benefit$6,000Civil Rights$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $67,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChoices Medical Services PC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGENDER BENDERS: $22,628 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI RISING COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Campaign For Southern Equality funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Campaign For Southern Equality. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    How do I get to Campaign For Southern Equality?

    Find your warmest path to Campaign For Southern Equality through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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.

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