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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.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Youth Development$805kEnvironment$626kCivil Rights$553kHuman Services$524kCrime & Legal$430kHealth$341kEducation$288kArts & Culture$254kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $144,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $197,115 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,565 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRANS FORMING$78,550
3D GIRLS$20,000
THE POWER OF GIRLS$20,000
EVERY BLACK GIRL$20,000
SOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWOR$6,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 31 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
90

Total granted

$2.8M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+7%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $579k · revenue +29%
  • SN
    SOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $66k · revenue +27%
  • AR
    Alternate RootsInc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +54%

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
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
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
National Black Womens Justice Institite Inc
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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
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
8
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
9
Global Glow
Youth Development
10
Blackfem Inc

Blackfem partners with the nation's most forward-thinking governmental bodies and activists to reimagine wealth building opportunities for black women.

Human Services
11
Brown Girl Village Inc

Transform brown girls

Youth Development
12
Africa Agility

Our mission is to equip underserved youthespecially women and girls with future-ready skills in technology Agile methodologies and entrepreneurship empowering them to access dignified work drive innovation and compete globally.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is E3 Educate Empower Elevate; 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.
04the grantee network

96 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/96
Grantees still filing
53/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REVERSE CYCLE OF INCARCERATIO: $350,000 · OtherREVERSE CYCLE OF INCARCERATIOFANNIELOUHAMER INSTADVOCACY: $68,400 · OtherSOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK INC: $66,000 · OtherRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC: $80,500 · Other+67 more: $1,350,970 · Other+67 moreSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $578,820 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVI…Center for Civic Innovation Inc: $60,400 · EnvironmentCenter for Civi…+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 moreFUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC: $380,851 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR SOU…THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACK BE…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC: $30,163 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FO…Spartanburg County Foundation: $29,750 · PhilanthropySpartanburg …APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $23,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $39,600 · Philanthropy+3 more3D Girls Incorporated: $88,000 · Youth Development3D Girls Inc…Hope For Youth Inc: $83,543 · Youth DevelopmentHope For You…COOL GIRLS INC: $61,931 · Youth DevelopmentCOOL GIRLS I…STEM GEMS Inc: $53,800 · Youth DevelopmentSTEM GEMS In…The Power of Girls: $46,333 · Youth DevelopmentThe Power of…A LADY NAMED PEARL FOUNDATION INC: $38,250 · Youth DevelopmentA LADY NAMED…The FIND Design: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe FIND Des…GIRLS GOING GLOBAL: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentFathers Incorporated: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentHABESHA Inc: $18,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $46,000 · Youth Development+3 moreEVERYBLACKGIRL INC: $146,650 · 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 · Education+4 more: $41,380 · 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$1,915,870Environment$659,220Human Services$564,873Philanthropy$535,364Youth Development$530,357Education$367,353Health$215,611

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $578,820 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFUND FOR SOUTHERN COMMUNITIES INC: $380,851 over 5y, 21% of budgetEVERYBLACKGIRL INC: $146,650 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS SMILE INC: $119,032 over 3y, 2.7% of budget3D Girls Incorporated: $88,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetHope For Youth Inc: $83,543 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC: $80,500 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetThe Generation Gap Inc: $67,745 over 2y, 18% of budgetColumbus Wellness Center Outreach & Prevention Project: $66,400 over 1y, 14% of budgetMAKE-IT-CLICK INC: $66,400 over 1y, 51% of budgetSOUTHERN NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK INC: $66,000 over 2y, 22% 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 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, 3.8% 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 budgetThe Power of Girls: $46,333 over 2y, 23% 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 budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe FIND Design: $30,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSpartanburg County Foundation: $29,750 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetE3 EDUCATE EMPOWER ELEVATE: $22,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetGIRLS GOING GLOBAL: $22,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetEMPOWERMENT RESOURCES INC: $22,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSUMMERHILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $22,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHEARTS HELPING EACH ADOLESCENT REACH THEIR SPARK: $22,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSummerhill Neighborhood Development: $20,298 over 2y, 25% of budgetJobs with Justice Education Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFathers Incorporated: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUBILEE PARTNERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSpeaking Down Barriers: $18,750 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetTrue Ridge: $18,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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.

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.

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

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 Fund for Southern Communities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fund for Southern Communities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 125 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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