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Southern Poverty Law Center Inc

The southern poverty law center is a catalyst for racial justice in the south and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements, and advance the human rights of all people.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.0MEducation$2.7MHousing & Shelter$2.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MPhilanthropy$720kCrime & Legal$400kCivil Rights$330kPublic Benefit$222kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $425k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$922M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$350,000
ALABAMA POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROJECT INC$100,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$100,000
IGNITE ALABAMA$75,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE LENDING$50,000
TUSKEGEE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS MULTICULTURAL CTR$50,000
TUSKEGEE MACON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$45,000
SELMA DALLAS COUNTY CHILDRENS POLICY COUNCIL FOUNDATION$25,000
AMERICAN BAR ASSN FUND FOR JUSTICE & EDUCATION$25,000
JUSTICE IN MOTION INC$25,000
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CTR$25,000
JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION$20,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS: $50k → 10%EL SOL JNRC: $25k → 11%HUMAN RIGHTS COALITION OF ALACHUA COUNTY: $25k → 19%OPEN ARMS INC: $50k → 23%TUTWILER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER: $35k → 31%WE2GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $25k → 32%GIVING HOPE INC: $50k → 23%OUACHITA MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $50k → 24%FRANCISCAN CENTER INC: $50k → 19%MILL COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 10%ESPERANZA COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 11%FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA: $75k → 24%MONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $50k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $25k → 23%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 17%QUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $2.0M → 13%SNCC LEGACY PROJECT: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 20 repeat orgs$8.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
216

Total granted

$1.9M
$7.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+11%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $573k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TC
    Tougaloo College
    2× · 2023–2024 · $110k · revenue +20%
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • MF
    MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • QC
    QUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +195% · 33% of their budget
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +40%
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $135k · revenue -4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
3
Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc

Feeding Northeast Florida works to permanently end hunger in Northeast Florida by providing nutritious foods and other essential goods to people facing hunger, by addressing food insecurity, poverty and poor health through education and…

Food & Nutrition
4
Galveston County Food Bank

Create and maintain a food procurement and distribution network that provides nurishing food by maximizing relationships with major food distributors and producers. galveston county food bank effectively distributes nutritious food to…

Human Services
5
Food Bank of Central New York

Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…

Food & Nutrition
6
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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9
Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee

Second harvest food bank of east tennessee is dedicated to compassionately feeding east tennesseans experiencing hunger & engaging the community in the fight to eliminate hunger.

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10
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc

Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.

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11
Community Farmers Markets Inc

To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…

Food & Nutrition
12
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Food Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is Westside Community Action Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsSchool District FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Immigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Community Food PantriesFood Banks and Pantries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%6/256
the rest of the field
13%
240,390/1,819,309

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

140 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 140 of the 256 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/140
Grantees still filing
86/140
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

QUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $2,000,000 · Human ServicesQUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT …SNCC LEGACY PROJECT — $100,000 · Human Services+15 more — $580,000 · Human Services+15 moreFeeding America — $1,000,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaDELTA FRESH FOODS INITIATIVE INC — $75,000 · Food & Nutrition+26 more — $950,000 · Food & Nutrition+26 moreREDEMPTION EARNED INC — $100,000 · OtherALABAMA POST CONVICTION RELIEF PROJECT INC — $100,000 · OtherAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC — $135,000 · Other+113 more — $2,358,598 · Other+113 moreAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,255,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSIT…Tougaloo College — $110,000 · EducationTougaloo CollegeINSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-US — $100,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR STRA…+20 more — $287,791 · Education+20 moreNEW VENTURE FUND — $550,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentMISSISSIPPI VOTES — $100,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $100,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Civil RightsWECOUNT — $50,000 · Civil RightsREUBEN V ANDERSON CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $50,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $25,000 · Civil RightsTRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE COALITION — $20,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsIGNITE ALABAMA — $175,000 · Community ImprovementWESTSIDE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL — $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementSouthern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc — $50,000 · Community ImprovementDELTA HANDS FOR HOPE — $16,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$2,680,000Food & Nutrition$2,025,000Other$2,793,598Education$1,752,791Environment$650,000Civil Rights$405,000Community Improvement$391,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetQUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,255,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE ALABAMA — $175,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD INC — $135,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTougaloo College — $110,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-US — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VOTES — $100,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSNCC LEGACY PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREDEMPTION EARNED INC — $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDELTA FRESH FOODS INITIATIVE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $60,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRO CAMPESINO FARMWORKER CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA SERVANTS LOVE INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetOPEN ARMS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetTangi Food Pantry — $50,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAGNOLIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFRANCISCAN CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFEEDING SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding Ga Families — $50,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetMONTGOMERY AREA COUNCIL ON AGING — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALABAMA CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWECOUNT — $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern Foundation for Homeless Children Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGiving Hope Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLFAMILYMEAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetKIKSTART INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUPSTATE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS — $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSELMA AREA FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFarmworker Association of Florida Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOUACHITA MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION ACTION PROGRAM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARY CHRISTIAN CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTutwiler Community Education Center — $35,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetESPERANZA COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

GenYOUTH IncorporatedRound It Up America I…Share Our StrengthProject Lead the Way …For Inspiration and R…Project Lead the Way …Save the Music Founda…The George W Bush Fou…Feeding AmericaRockefeller Philanthr…I Car Education Found…Action for Healthy Ki…
GenYOUTH IncorporatedIL53.5× affinity36 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: GenYOUTH Incorporated · Round It Up America Inc · Share Our Strength · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Project Lead the Way Inc · Save the Music Foundation · The George W Bush Foundation · Feeding America · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · I Car Education Foundation · Action for Healthy Kids

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Southern Poverty Law Center Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Coalition of Florida Farmworker Organizations Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Odyssey Charter School — 2% of income from government
  • Franciscan Center Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
43report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 256 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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