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Press on South Inc

Press on is a southern media collective that catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism.

$114k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$90k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Press on South Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$70k86%
FY20236$58k100%
FY20224$37k50%
FY20213$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$108kCrime & Legal$36kCivil Rights$26kEmployment$21kPublic Benefit$20kHealth$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
CA
KY
AR
TN
SC
MS
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alternate RootsInc$20,50010%
Workers' Dignity Project$20,50022%
Community Movement Builders Inc$20,00020%
Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors$15,50022%
Decarcerate Inc$10,00017%
AIDS Services Coalition Inc$10,00010%
Transgender Awareness Alliance Greg Green$10,0001n/a
Appalshop Inc$10,00010%
Allied Media Projects Inc$10,00010%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$10,00010%
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All grantees of Press on South Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alternate RootsInc$20,50010%
Workers' Dignity Project$20,50022%
Community Movement Builders Inc$20,00020%
Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors$15,50022%
Decarcerate Inc$10,00017%
AIDS Services Coalition Inc$10,00010%
Transgender Awareness Alliance Greg Green$10,0001n/a
Appalshop Inc$10,00010%
Allied Media Projects Inc$10,00010%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$10,00010%
Black in Appalachia$10,00013%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$10,00010%
Southern Movement Committee$10,00012%
Everyblackgirl Inc$10,00012%
Human Rights Defense Center Inc$10,00010%
Lee Street Community Center$7,5001n/a
Bold Training Institute Inc$5,50010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Press on South Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlternate RootsInc: $20,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorkers' Dignity Project: $20,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCommunity Movement Builders Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTennessee Justice for Our Neighbors: $15,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDecarcerate Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetAIDS Services Coalition Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAppalshop Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack in Appalachia: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Movement Committee: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEveryblackgirl Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHuman Rights Defense Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBold Training Institute Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Borealis PhilanthropyMN21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Groundswell Fund · Proteus Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Solidaire Network Inc · Tides Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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How do I get to Press on South Inc?

Find your warmest path to Press on South 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.

About Press on South Inc

How much does Press on South Inc give?
Press on South Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $90,000, out of $113,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Press on South Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Crime & Legal (16%), Civil Rights (12%).
Who are Press on South Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Alternate RootsInc ($21k), Workers' Dignity Project ($21k), Community Movement Builders Inc ($20k).
Does Press on South Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Press on South Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Borealis Philanthropy, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Groundswell Fund.
Where is Press on South Inc based?
Press on South Inc is based in GA.

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 19 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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