Virginia · Public charity
Southern Environmental Law Center
The mission of the SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER is to protect the basic right to clean air, clean water, and a livable climate; to preserve our region's natural treasures and rich biodiversity; and to provide a healthy environment for all.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $67k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $23,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $281M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Southern Environmental Law Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $67k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $75k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $30k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $129k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $46k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $100k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $25k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Wilderness Committee | $112,238 | 6 | 23% |
| Appalachian Voices | $72,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Georgia Forestwatch Inc | $58,592 | 4 | 6% |
| Southern Alliance for Clean Energy | $46,600 | 1 | 1% |
| North Carolina Conservation Network | $40,900 | 1 | 1% |
| Wild South | $40,000 | 1 | 12% |
| The University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation Inc | $33,719 | 1 | 0% |
| Protect Our Aquifer | $30,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Virginia Organizing Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cherokee Forest Voices Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Southern Environmental Law Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Energy Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · United States Energy Foundation · Westwind Foundation · Stephens Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Southern Environmental Law Center
- How much does Southern Environmental Law Center give?
- Southern Environmental Law Center reported 4 itemized grants totaling $67,250, out of $86,416 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Southern Environmental Law Center fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (52%), Crime & Legal (42%), Education (3%).
- Who are Southern Environmental Law Center's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Virginia Wilderness Committee ($112k), Appalachian Voices ($73k), Georgia Forestwatch Inc ($59k).
- Does Southern Environmental Law Center fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Southern Environmental Law Center?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is Southern Environmental Law Center based?
- Southern Environmental Law Center is based in VA.
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