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Southern Coalition for Social Justice

SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights.

$298k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$744kCivil Rights$693kPublic Benefit$269kHuman Services$115kArts & Culture$82kCommunity Improvement$76kYouth Development$47kCrime & Legal$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $292k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A BELLA LAFEMME SOCIETY$11,500
CAROLINA FOR ALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
TNOVSA GLOBAL COMMONS$10,000
HARRIET TUBMAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS$10,000
PROTECT THE VOTE$10,000
HOPEPRINT INC$10,000
NETROOTS FOUNDATION$10,000
WESTSIDE SPONSORING COMMITTEE$10,000
JERICHO ROAD EPISCOPAL$10,000
EL PASO CIVIC EDUCATION ORGANIZATION$10,000
JOYNT PRODUCTION NETWORK INC$10,000
BLACK CLERGY COLLABORATIVE OF MEMPHIS$10,000
VIRGINIA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS$10,000
FARMWORKERS SELF-HELP INC$10,000
HANCOCK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
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, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EL PASO CIVIC EDUCATION ORGANIZATION: $10k → 21%FARMWORKERS SELF-HELP INC: $10k → 11%HARRIET TUBMAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS: $10k → 14%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY: $10k → 17%LATINO ADVOCACY COALITION OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC: $20k → 12%CASA AZUL DE WILSON: $12k → 20%Men and Women for You and Families: $10k → 21%MIGRANT EQUITY SOUTHEAST INC: $7k → 16%VIRGINIA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $10k → 9%BRIDGING THE GAP IN VIRGINIA: $10k → 9%EL PASO CIVIC EDUCATION ORGANIZATION: $10k → 21%FARMWORKERS SELF-HELP INC: $10k → 11%HARRIET TUBMAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS: $10k → 14%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY: $10k → 17%VIRGINIA COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $8k → 9%HARRIETT TUBMAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS: $10k → 14%JT LOCKE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10k → 8%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

MT
IL
NY
IN
CA
VA
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$428k · 21 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
74

Total granted

$428k
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+37%

Still filing today

81%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FS
    FARMWORKERS SELF-HELP INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +172%
  • UW
    UNITED WOMEN OF COLOR
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +91%
  • EP
    El Paso Civic Education Organization
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • Education Justice Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $523k · revenue +126% · 57% of their budget
  • BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -50%
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $88k · revenue +37%
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
North Carolina Latino Power

The mission of NC Latino Power is to build and expand political and civic participation among Latino citizens of North Carolina through leadership training, voter education, and organizing within faith and community institutions.

Education
2
Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement
3
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
4
Democracy North Carolina

Democracy North Carolina's mission is to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

Civil Rights
5
Haitian American Professional Coalition Inc

Civic Engagement for the Haitian Community

Religion
6
New Virginia Majority

New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that works with low income people in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy.

Civil Rights
7
Virginia New Majority Education Fund

New Virginia Majority Education Fund is a grassroots organization that engages low income people and people of color in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education through grassroots…

Education
8
America Indivisible

To promote the core American values of equality, inclusion, and strength through diversity on a local and national level through civic and public engagement, education, and interfaith and intercultural activities

Religion
9
Memphis for All

To build a cross-class multi-racial progressive alliance, by combining integrated voter engagement, distributive organization, and sustained leadership development.

Civil Rights
10
Black Alliance for Just Immigration

The organization provides public education on the issues related to fair and just immigration policies.

Arts & Culture
11
Poder

PODER Inc. is a non-partisan organization that combats voter suppression by engaging Black and Brown New Yorkers around local, state, and federal elections.

Civil Rights
12
Action Tn

Action tn is dedicated to helping grassroots groups across tennessee expand and coordinate their civic and political engagement efforts in service of building power around our shared values, with a particular focus on empowering…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mi Familia En Accion; the most unlike its peers is Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants. 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

82 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. 82 of the 112 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
49/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education Justice Alliance: $522,933 · EducationEducation Justice AllianceBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $100,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA+7 more: $86,649 · Education+7 moreORANGE COUNTY TRANSLATINAS: $28,000 · Other+50 more: $591,878 · Other+50 moreCIVIC TN: $30,000 · Civil RightsCIVIC TNNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $26,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL KOREAN A…ORGANIZE TENNESSEE: $25,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZE TENNESSE…TENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $25,000 · Civil RightsTENNESSEE IMMIGRA…SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $21,000 · Civil RightsSOUTH CAROLINA AP…WE MUST VOTE INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsWE MUST VOTE INCUPSTATE ACTION ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Civil RightsUPSTATE ACTION AL…Aliefvotes: $20,000 · Civil RightsAliefvotesPROTECT THE VOTE INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT THE VOTE …+15 more: $126,473 · Civil Rights+15 moreHarriet Tubman Freedom Fighters Corp: $30,000 · Human ServicesHarriet Tub…FARMWORKERS SELF-HELP INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesFARMWORKERS…UNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WOME…El Paso Civic Education Organization: $20,000 · Human ServicesEl Paso Civ…THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE ORDINAR…Latino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesLatino Advo…Virginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $18,000 · Human ServicesVirginia Co…Casa Azul De Wilson: $12,000 · Human ServicesCasa Azul D…HOPEPRINT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBridging The Gap In Virginia: $10,000 · Human ServicesJ T LOCKE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMigrant Equity Southeast Inc: $7,250 · Human Services+1 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $87,500 · Public BenefitOne Voice: $24,500 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $10,000 · Public BenefitWESTSIDE SPONSORING COMMITTEE: $22,500 · Arts & CultureELMAHABA CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureImmersion for Spanish Language Acq: $20,000 · Arts & CultureASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALABAMA VALUES: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVALORES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEWTOWN FLORIST CLUB INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementPure Justice: $21,000 · Community ImprovementBlack Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis: $16,500 · Community ImprovementAcres Homes Community Advocacy Group Corporation: $10,000 · Community ImprovementFUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$709,582Other$619,878Civil Rights$333,473Human Services$213,750Public Benefit$122,000Arts & Culture$92,500Community Improvement$82,500

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 budgetEducation Justice Alliance: $522,933 over 1y, 57% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $87,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCIVIC TN: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHarriet Tubman Freedom Fighters Corp: $30,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetNATIONAL KOREAN AMERICAN SERVICE AND EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetORGANIZE TENNESSEE: $25,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNEWTOWN FLORIST CLUB INC: $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTENNESSEE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS COALITION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOne Voice: $24,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWESTSIDE SPONSORING COMMITTEE: $22,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $21,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPure Justice: $21,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetWE MUST VOTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN MUSLIM ADVISORY COUNC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetELMAHABA CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetFARMWORKERS SELF-HELP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $20,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetEl Paso Civic Education Organization: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMONTAGNARD ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetUPSTATE ACTION ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetVillage Of Wisdom: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROTECT THE VOTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetNC One Hundred Strong Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLatino Advocacy Coalition of Henderson County Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetImmersion for Spanish Language Acq: $20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUnified: $18,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetVirginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights: $18,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCOUNTYWIDE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $16,649 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetBlack Clergy Collaborative Of Memphis: $16,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetLifeworks SC: $15,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetCasa Azul De Wilson: $12,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOU CAN VOTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOLEF TURNS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHOPEPRINT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNETROOTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetALABAMA VALUES: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetADVOCATES FOR WOMENS AND KIDS EQUALITY AWAKE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetACTION COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION REFORM: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAcres Homes Community Advocacy Group Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSTAND UP MOBILE A BLUEPRINT FOR US: $10,000 over 1y, 18% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncBlueprint North Carol…Southern Partners Fun…Bvm Capacity Building…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…Mary Reynolds Babcock…Tides FoundationCommon Cause Educatio…Nc Counts CoalitionNew Venture FundTriangle Community Fo…
NEO Philanthropy IncNY53.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Blueprint North Carolina · Southern Partners Fund Inc · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Tides Foundation · Common Cause Education Fund · Nc Counts Coalition · New Venture Fund · Triangle Community Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Southern Coalition for Social Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    15report 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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    How do I get to Southern Coalition for Social Justice?

    Find your warmest path to Southern Coalition for Social Justice 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 112 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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