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Partnership for Southern Equity

PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY (pse) pushes for policies and actions that promote equity and shared prosperity in metropolitan atlanta.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $814k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$60,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOLUTIONS PROJECT INC$1,500,000
PEOPLESTOWN REVITALIZATION CORP$130,000
HISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORP$128,553
HISTORIC HUNTER HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC$127,500
ZION HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$127,500
WEST ATLANTA WATERSHED FOR ENGLISH AVENUE$60,000
THE ARTS EXCHANGE$60,000
HISTORIC WESTSIDE GARDENS ATL$60,000
WEST ATLANTA WATERSHED ALLIANCE$60,000
GOOD FOOD GREEN CITY MAYNAR JACKSON UNITED FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS$60,000
THE KE'NEKT COOPERATIVE$25,000
THE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE$20,000
CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATION FUND$20,000
HERide$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOLUTIONS PROJECT INC: $1.5M → 10%CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATION FUND: $20k → 16%THE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 8%ZION HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $128k → 13%HERide: $10k → 14%THE ARTS EXCHANGE: $60k → 13%THE KE'NEKT COOPERATIVE: $25k → 13%WEST ATLANTA WATERSHED ALLIANCE: $60k → 13%HISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $129k → 13%GOOD FOOD GREEN CITY MAYNAR JACKSON UNITED FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS: $60k → 13%PEOPLESTOWN REVITALIZATION CORP: $130k → 13%HISTORIC HUNTER HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOC: $128k → 13%HISTORIC WESTSIDE GARDENS ATL: $60k → 13%WEST ATLANTA WATERSHED FOR ENGLISH AVENUE: $60k → 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.
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 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
Think Green Inc

Think Green, Inc. provides ecosystem services analysis, environmental conservation, restoration, and education in primarily marginalized urban and rural communities.

Environment
2
Housing Justice League Inc

We work with renters and homeowners to self-organize and defend their right to remain. We fight to preserve affordable housing for just living conditions to prevent gentrification and to build community power for an Atlanta-wide housing…

Housing & Shelter
3
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…

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4
Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - Tag

Elevate the voice of those impacted by the Duwamish River pollution and other environmental injustices for a clean, healthy, equitable environment for people and wildlife. We promote place-keeping and prioritize community capacity and…

Environment
5
Greenspace Ncr

Greenspace works to make affordable housing and its neighborhoods green. greenspace's major program is with washington dc's department general services sustainability and energy division where we developed a strategic plan and program…

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6
Ethiopian Community Association in Atlanta

Assists, advice, and counsling community members

Food & Nutrition
7
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation and Affiliates

The southwest boston community development corporation is led by principles of racial equity and inclusion, to alleviate social and economic disparities that impact people's quality of life and future opportunities. it shall be led by and…

Community Improvement
8
East Market Street Development Corporation

Offers comprehensive revitalization services in east greensboro, nc that create and sustain assets through economic, business and community development services and programs. the corporation is helping rebuild the business community in…

Community Improvement
9
Charleston Climate Coalition

We are a grassroots organization whose primary purpose is to raise awareness about climate change, educate the public, and advocate for sound climate policy and climate action plans at the local level. We work with local municipalities to…

Public Benefit
10
West End Revitalization Association

Support access to basic public health amenities safe drinking water sewer lines housing streets sidewalks and storm-water management for primarily African American and Native American heritage communities: West End White Level Kimrey Road…

Community Improvement
11
Georgia Association of Conservation Districts Inc

Advocating for the conservation of Georgias natural resources by providing organization, leadership and a unified strategic direction to the soil and water conservation districts of the state.

Environment
12
Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition

The Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition gives voice to the hopes and concerns of our residents, institutions, businesses and visitors and works to preserve, improve, and celebrate the quality of life in our vibrant urban Squirrel Hill…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic District Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Peoplestown Revitalization Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Solutions Project Inc: $1,500,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Project IncENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentHistoric Westside Gardens Atlanta Inc: $60,000 · Environment+1 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentPEOPLESTOWN REVITALIZATION CORPORATION: $130,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLESTOWN …HISTORIC HUNTER HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $127,500 · Community ImprovementHISTORIC HUN…HISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $128,553 · Housing & ShelterHISTORIC DIS…Zion Hill Community Development Corporation: $127,500 · Housing & ShelterZion Hill Co…WEST ATLANTA WATERSHED FOR ENGLISH AVENUE: $60,000 · OtherMAYNARD H JACKSON UNITED FOR STUDENT AND TEACHERS: $60,000 · OtherTHE KE'NEKT COOPERATIVE: $25,000 · OtherHERide: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 · Education
Environment$1,640,000Community Improvement$257,500Housing & Shelter$256,053Other$155,000Arts & Culture$60,000Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSolutions Project Inc: $1,500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPEOPLESTOWN REVITALIZATION CORPORATION: $130,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $128,553 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetZion Hill Community Development Corporation: $127,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER INC: $60,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHistoric Westside Gardens Atlanta Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetTHE RESILIENCY COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUC FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · 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 Partnership for Southern Equity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Partnership for Southern Equity. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Partnership for Southern Equity?

    Find your warmest path to Partnership for Southern Equity 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 14 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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