How much did SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC grant in FY2023?

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC reported 17 grants totaling $2,902,525 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC based?

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC is based in AL.

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC

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· Public charity

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC

The splc 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.

$2.9M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$2.0M

Largest

01What you fund

0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Human Services$2.6MFood & Nutrition$2.0MEducation$396kEnvironment$375kCommunity Improvement$216kCivil Rights$200kCrime & Legal$150kPhilanthropy$145kHousing & Shelter$75kOther$2.0M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

teaching tolerancetolerance educator

2020

covid foodfood securitystudentsdistricteducationallearningeducation

2021

covid emergencyemergency response

2022

voterlfj educatorengagementyoungencourage

2023

rightlfj educatorventureorganizing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k4 grants · $28k
$10k–50k7 grants · $107k
$50k–250k4 grants · $375k
$250k+2 grants · $2.3M

$18,000

Median grant

States reached

$749M

Total assets

Largest grants

QUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC$2,000,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$275,000
REDEMPTION EARNED INC$100,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$100,000
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC$100,000
TOUGALOO COLLEGE$75,000
BOARD OF EDUCATION - CITY OF CHICAGO$25,000
DECATUR EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$19,000
ROSEDALE COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER$18,000
JEREMIAH E BURKE HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS$10,000
JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
QUAKERTOWN COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$8,800
ORANGE PARK HIGH SCHOOL$7,500

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$338k · 15 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

196

Total granted

$338k

$5.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%

+56%

Still filing today

53%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

MF
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK
2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +133%
AC
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +78%
UN
UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +8%

Funded once

FEEDING AMERICAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +77%
WC
WESTSIDE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
one grant, 2020 · $100k
MV
MISSISSIPPI VOTESgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +634%

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.

Arkansas Foodbank

The arkansas foodbank acquires, through local and national partnerships, large quantities of food and other resources to distribute to hungry people in the state of arkansas. the arkansas foodbank supports programs for children as well as…

Food & Nutrition

The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

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

Human Services

The Food Bank for Central

Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.

Food & Nutrition

Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is south carolina's largest food bank, providing over 25 million meals on average to neighbors in need across the midlands, pee dee and upstate.

Food & Nutrition

Augusta Food Bank

The augusta food bank provides a supplemental source of food to individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition

Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc

Together, we nourish our neighbors and improve their lives one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

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

Food Bank of Central New York

Food acquisition and distribution

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank for New York City

The mission of food bank for new york city is to end hunger by organizing food, information and support for community survival and dignity.

Community Improvement

Food for People Inc

Food for people is a designated food bank committed to providing food for those in need.

Food & Nutrition

Missoula Food Bank & Community Center

We lead the movement to end hunger through activism, volunteerism and healthy food for all. we nourish community.

Food & Nutrition

Food Security for America Inc

Creating communities across America to equip those in need of healthy fresh food

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Second Harvest of. 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.

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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%4/227

the rest of the field

11%

206,160/1,819,338

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.

05the grantee network

117 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

111/117

Grantees still filing

89/117

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$2,560,000Food & Nutrition$2,025,000Other$2,412,609Education$396,241Environment$375,000Community Improvement$216,000Civil Rights$200,000

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

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 IncorporatedIL57.5× affinity37 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 · Project Lead the Way Inc · Share Our Strength · For Inspiration and Recognition of · Project Lead the Way Inc · The George W Bush Foundation · Feeding America · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · I Car Education Foundation · The Mr Holland's Opus 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FEEDING GA FAMILIES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 24.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814028052 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FEEDING GA FAMILIES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Southern Poverty Law Center Inc?

Find your warmest path to Southern Poverty Law Center Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

117 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Southern Poverty Law Center Inc?

More from the funding graph

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

117 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Southern Poverty Law Center Inc?

More from the funding graph