Georgia · Public charity
Fund for Southern Communities Inc
The Fund for Southern Communities is a public foundation that supports and unites organizations and donors working to create just and sustainable communities that are free of oppression and that embrace and celebrate all people. Through grant-making and related activities the Fund for Southern Communities fosters social change initiated…
- $197k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $145k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $78,550
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Fund for Southern Communities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $145k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $469k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $996k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $2.1M | 84% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $643k | 72% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $21k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $191k | 94% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $16k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc | $578,820 | 3 | 0% |
| Fund for Southern Communities Inc | $380,851 | 5 | 21% |
| Reverse Cycle of Incarceratio | $350,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Everyblackgirl Inc | $146,650 | 5 | 7% |
| The Imperative Inc | $120,528 | 2 | n/a |
| Black Girls Smile Inc | $119,032 | 3 | 3% |
| 3D Girls Incorporated | $88,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Hope For Youth Inc | $83,543 | 3 | 5% |
| Restoreher Usamerica Inc | $80,500 | 4 | 5% |
| Fannielouhamer Instadvocacy | $68,400 | 1 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Fund for Southern Communities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · AEC Trust
How this is measured
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About Fund for Southern Communities Inc
- How much does Fund for Southern Communities Inc give?
- Fund for Southern Communities Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $144,550, out of $197,115 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fund for Southern Communities Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (17%), Environment (13%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Fund for Southern Communities Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($579k), Fund for Southern Communities Inc ($381k), Reverse Cycle of Incarceratio ($350k).
- Does Fund for Southern Communities Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for Southern Communities Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, NEO Philanthropy Inc.
- Where is Fund for Southern Communities Inc based?
- Fund for Southern Communities Inc is based in GA.
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