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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.

$507k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$805kEnvironment$626kCivil Rights$553kHuman Services$524kCrime & Legal$430kHealth$341kEducation$288kArts & Culture$254kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 22 grants below total $469,276 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $506,695 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,419 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $449k
$22,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRANS FORMING$40,163
BLACK GIRLS FILM CAMP$37,500
NEW VISION MSK$37,500
HH SISTERS HAZLEHURST HAILE$30,370
3D GIRLS$30,000
BLACK GIRLS SMILE INC$30,000
FIND DESIGN$30,000
HOPE FOR YOUTH INC$27,750
KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS$27,750
EVERY BLACK GIRL$27,000
E3 EDUCATE EMPOWER ELEVATE$22,500
THE BEAUTIFUL PROJECT$18,500
THE GENERATION GAP$17,000
Gifted Girls of Grace Inc$15,000
The Sally R Brasley Fnd$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $555k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE IMPERATIVE INC: $104k → 8%EMPOWERMENT RESOURCES INC: $22k → 14%CHOCOLATE SOUL REVIVAL INC: $32k → 11%TRUE RIDGE FOUNDATION: $18k → 12%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $28k → 20%WOMEN OF CHOICES INC: $25k → 20%THE GENERATION GAP: $17k → 9%OPERATION RESTORATION: $54k → 15%THE IMPERATIVE INC: $17k → 8%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $25k → 20%MAKE IT CLICK INC: $66k → 8%SOUTHERN RURAL BLACK WOMEN: $14k → 23%THE GENERATION GAP: $51k → 13%GIRLS OF EXCELLENCE INC: $58k → 13%GIRLS OF EXCELLENCE: $15k → 13%YOUTHSPARK: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
KY
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 29 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
81

Total granted

$2.6M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $579k · revenue +29%
  • AR
    Alternate RootsInc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +54%
  • MS
    MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • FI
    FANNIELOUHAMER INSTADVOCACY
    one grant, 2022 · $68k
  • CW
    Columbus Wellness Center Outreach & Prevention Project
    one grant, 2022 · $66k · revenue -97%
  • MI
    MAKE-IT-CLICK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $66k · 51% of their budget

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Black Girls Cook

Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.

Food & Nutrition
2
Ghana Girls Connect

Ghana Girls Connect, Inc. exists to empower young women of the diaspora to pursue their creative passions and turn them into sustainable professional careers. Through cultural immersion, professional development, and women empowerment…

Public Benefit
3
Teach Reach Inspire Build Empower

TRIBE, Inc. empowers Black girls through culturally relevant education, leadership development, mentoring, and wellness programming. Our purpose is to increase access to affirming, community-rooted resources that support academic success,…

Youth Development
4
Ambitious Initiatives Inc

Ambitious Initiatives is radically improving educational outcomes for underrepresented populations and building a new generation of leaders.

Youth Development
5
Global Fund for Girls Inc

Global Foundation for Girls (GFG) is a Black, Queer, Woman and Youth-led intermediary working with girls of color, gender-fluid youth, and birthing persons of color. GFG focuses on funding distribution, capacity building, technical…

Human Services
6
Black Excellence

Black Excellence aims to catalyze economic mobility for Black professionals by delivering innovative, purpose-driven programs that expand access to high-impact opportunities, strategic networks, and wealth-building tools, resulting in…

Community Improvement
7
National Black Womens Justice Institite Inc
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8
Get Girls Going Inc

Get girls going (ggg) empowers black teen girls to create social enterprises that solve problems in the world, and in doing so equips them to be leaders that challenge racial and gender inequities that prevent them from success.

Youth Development
9
Global Glow
Youth Development
10
Shewill Inc

SheWill, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and empowering girls ages 8-17 through financial literacy, career readiness, leadership development, and life skills programming. The organization provides in-school,…

Youth Development
11
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

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12
Girl Plus Environment Corporation

The mission of Girl Plus Environment GPE is to educate engage and empower Black and Brown women+ to stand up for climate and environmental justice in their own communities.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is E3 Educate Empower Elevate and the most unlike its peers is Women of Choices. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…Youth Mentoring ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsCommunity FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…Addiction Recovery ServicesYouth Development ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%12%<5yr17%27%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr9%15%35–55yr13%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%8%<5yr17%22%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr14%13%20–35yr9%34%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/125
the rest of the field
19%
10,946/58,176

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 96 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/96
Grantees still filing
51/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REVERSE CYCLE OF INCARCERATIO — $350,000 · OtherREVERSE CYCLE OF INCARCERATIOFANNIELOUHAMER INSTADVOCACY — $68,400 · OtherRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC — $80,500 · OtherEmancipate NC Inc — $63,750 · Other+67 more — $1,347,220 · Other+67 moreSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $578,820 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIR…Center for Civic Innovation Inc — $60,400 · EnvironmentCenter for Civic…+1 more — $20,000 · EnvironmentTHE IMPERATIVE INC — $120,528 · Human ServicesTHE IMPERATIV…The Generation Gap Inc — $67,745 · Human ServicesThe Generatio…MAKE-IT-CLICK INC — $66,400 · Human ServicesMAKE-IT-CLICK…GIRLS OF EXCELLENCE INC — $58,200 · Human ServicesGIRLS OF EXCE…OPERATION RESTORATION — $53,750 · Human ServicesOPERATION RES…KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $52,250 · Human ServicesKOINONIA COMM…CHOCOLATE SOUL REVIVAL INC — $32,000 · Human ServicesCHOCOLATE SOU…WOMEN OF CHOICES — $25,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWERMENT RESOURCES INC — $22,000 · Human Services+5 more — $67,000 · Human Services+5 moreHope For Youth Inc — $83,543 · Youth DevelopmentHope For Yo…3D Girls Incorporated — $68,000 · Youth Development3D Girls In…COOL GIRLS INC — $61,931 · Youth DevelopmentCOOL GIRLS …STEM GEMS Inc — $53,800 · Youth DevelopmentSTEM GEMS I…A LADY NAMED PEARL FOUNDATION INC — $38,250 · Youth DevelopmentA LADY NAME…The FIND Design — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe FIND De…The Power of Girls — $26,333 · Youth DevelopmentThe Power o…GIRLS GOING GLOBAL — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentFathers Incorporated — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHABESHA Inc — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentWhat Next Global Inc — $17,500 · Youth Development+2 more — $28,500 · Youth Development+2 moreFUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC — $302,301 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR SO…THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACK B…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC — $30,163 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…Spartanburg County Foundation — $29,750 · PhilanthropySpartanburg…APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND — $23,000 · PhilanthropyLEGACY FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $22,600 · PhilanthropyEVERYBLACKGIRL INC — $126,650 · EducationMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $49,823 · EducationNOLLIE JENKINS FAMILY CENTER INCORPORATED — $34,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationCommunities in Schools of Georgia — $25,000 · EducationE3 EDUCATE EMPOWER ELEVATE — $22,500 · EducationHealing Vine Harbor — $18,000 · EducationNation Builders Conference Inc — $12,000 · EducationGEORGIA ROBOTICS ALLIANCE INC — $11,880 · Education+2 more — $17,500 · EducationBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC — $119,032 · HealthColumbus Wellness Center Outreach & Prevention Project — $66,400 · HealthReclaim Healthcare WNC Inc — $20,179 · HealthTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Health
Other$1,909,870Environment$659,220Human Services$564,873Youth Development$490,357Philanthropy$456,814Education$347,353Health$215,611

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $578,820 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC — $302,301 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetEVERYBLACKGIRL INC — $126,650 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC — $119,032 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetHope For Youth Inc — $83,543 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC — $80,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budget3D Girls Incorporated — $68,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetColumbus Wellness Center Outreach & Prevention Project — $66,400 over 1y, 14% of budgetMAKE-IT-CLICK INC — $66,400 over 1y, 51% of budgetEmancipate NC Inc — $63,750 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCOOL GIRLS INC — $61,931 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCenter for Civic Innovation Inc — $60,400 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK INC — $60,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetAlternate RootsInc — $55,300 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSTEM GEMS Inc — $53,800 over 1y, 39% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION — $53,750 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $52,250 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $49,823 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN — $48,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARKANSAS SINGLE PARENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $47,400 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSISTERLOVE INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA LADY NAMED PEARL FOUNDATION INC — $38,250 over 2y, 45% of budgetBLACK GIRLS FILM CAMP — $37,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetNOLLIE JENKINS FAMILY CENTER INCORPORATED — $34,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOne Voice — $31,563 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC — $30,163 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe FIND Design — $30,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation — $29,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Power of Girls — $26,333 over 1y, 23% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Georgia — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAMA KIDS INC — $23,850 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND — $23,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS GOING GLOBAL — $22,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetE3 EDUCATE EMPOWER ELEVATE — $22,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetHEARTS HELPING EACH ADOLESCENT REACH THEIR SPARK — $22,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $22,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetEMPOWERMENT RESOURCES INC — $22,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSummerhill Neighborhood Development — $20,298 over 2y, 25% of budgetFathers Incorporated — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUBILEE PARTNERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSpeaking Down Barriers — $18,750 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetYOUTH ENSEMBLE OF ATLANTA INC — $18,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTrue Ridge — $18,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Annie E Casey Foundat…The Community Foundat…NEO Philanthropy IncUnited Way of Greater…Ms Foundation for Wom…Rockefeller Philanthr…Bvm Capacity Building…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationBorealis PhilanthropyThe Arthur M Blank Fa…AEC Trust
Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD36.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fund for Southern Communities Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fund for Southern Communities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fund for Southern Communities Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 125 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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