Illinois · Private foundation
Southern Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,755
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Southern Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CultureOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $60k | 82% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $65k | 69% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $35k | 89% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $48k | 90% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $34k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $38k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $30k | n/a |
86% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Public Safety & Disaster$48kArts & Culture$46kRecreation & Sports$37kHuman Services$37kFood & Nutrition$22kEducation$15kCommunity Improvement$10kReligion$10kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston Nutrition Center | $15,622 | 3 | 1% |
| Cairo Historical Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thebes Historical Society | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Semo Blazers Inc | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Meet the Need Inc | $4,787 | 1 | n/a |
| Fresh Start Self Improvement Center | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Olmsted Historical Society | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Charleston Baseball Improvement Corporation | $2,680 | 1 | n/a |
| Cairo Heritage Foundation | $2,092 | 1 | n/a |
| First Assembly of God | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston Nutrition Center | $15,622 | 3 | 1% |
| Cairo Historical Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thebes Historical Society | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Semo Blazers Inc | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Meet the Need Inc | $4,787 | 1 | n/a |
| Fresh Start Self Improvement Center | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Olmsted Historical Society | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Charleston Baseball Improvement Corporation | $2,680 | 1 | n/a |
| Cairo Heritage Foundation | $2,092 | 1 | n/a |
| First Assembly of God | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Legacy Training and Development Corporation | $1,585 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.
About Southern Foundation Inc
- How much does Southern Foundation Inc give?
- Southern Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $60,375 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Southern Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (15%), Arts & Culture (15%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Southern Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Charleston Nutrition Center ($16k), Cairo Historical Association ($10k), Thebes Historical Society ($8k).
- Does Southern Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Southern Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Where is Southern Foundation Inc based?
- Southern Foundation Inc is based in IL.
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