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Southern Vision Alliance

See schedule oSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE (sva) is a justice-centered, values-based grassroots intermediary organized to provide incubation, infrastructure, capacity building, coaching, and technical assistance to frontline organizing projects, leadership programs, and collaborations led by directly impacted communities in the u.s.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$456kHuman Services$349kHealth$301kArts & Culture$291kCommunity Improvement$151kEducation$140kPublic Benefit$89kCrime & Legal$85kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $329,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,616,546 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,287,046 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $207k
$8,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORANGE COUNTY TRANSLATINAS$28,500
DUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP$20,000
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER$20,000
GRIMALKIN RECORDS INC$16,000
SOUTHEASTERN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK$15,000
SOUTHERN FRIED QUEER PRIDE$11,000
BLACK LGBTQ LIBERATION INC$11,000
PARAGON COOPERATIVE FOR LITERACY INFORMED CONSENT KWLEDGE & SUSTAINABILI$11,000
ARCO IRIS EARTH CARE PROJECT$11,000
CAPITAL TEA INC$11,000
OPERATION RESTORATION$11,000
AFRO EROTIC BODY$11,000
ABUNDANT LIFE AME CHURCH$10,000
LATI COMMISSION ON AIDS$10,000
THE BOTTOM$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 (FY20–24, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ITSOKTOBE YOUUU: $6k → 14%BLACK BUTTERFLY COLLECTIVE: $6k → 18%COMMUNITY ORGANIZING FOR RACIAL EQU: $23k → 9%NARRATIVE ARTS: $6k → 12%ULECAN: $10k → 14%CASA AZUL DE WILSON: $10k → 20%NC FIELD: $18k → 21%TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR HEALING PROJEC: $6k → 8%POWER SAFE PLACE RESOURCE CENTER OF: $6k → 10%THE CARE COLLECTIVE OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA: $8k → 22%TECHMOJA DANCE AND THEATRE: $6k → 12%Chocolate Soul Revival: $6k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK: $15k → 13%TRANZMISSION: $122k → 12%Southeast Asian Coalition: $6k → 10%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM: $25k → 11%TRANZMISSION: $44k → 12%Tranzmission: $11k → 12%MA HNAKIHU INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE PRES: $20k → 12%TRANZMISSION: $8k → 12%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

MI
NY
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$975k · 28 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
69

Total granted

$975k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+3%

Still filing today

64%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationOther
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

  • TI
    TRANZMISSION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $185k · revenue +126% · 88% of their budget
  • CM
    CAROLINA MIGRANT NETWORK INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $46k · revenue +831% · 26% of their budget
  • FY
    FUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE
    2× · 2020–2023 · $29k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • PN
    PODER NC ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $98k · revenue +35%
  • AC
    ASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $92k · revenue -50%
  • EL CENTRO HISPANO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue +2%
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
Carribean Equality Project Inc

The Caribbean Equality Project is an NYC-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City.

Human Services
2
Lgbt Center Intercultural Collective Inc

Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo is a social organization, which works on the empowerment of human rights, access and comprehensive health care of TransGNB people, strengthening the social and cultural expression of diverse gender…

Civil Rights
3
Southerners On New Ground Inc

Southerners on New Ground, Inc. (SONG) is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. SONG builds, sustains, and connects a southern regional base of LBGTQ…

Civil Rights
4
Atlanta Black Pride Inc

To educate, celebrate, promote self-empowerment and ensure that the social and cultural needs of LGBTQ+ individuals and families are met throughout the Atlanta Metropolitan area.

Civil Rights
5
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
6
Black Phoenix Organizing Collective

We prioritize the needs of Black people through two programs: Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice. We believe that supporting mental healthcare, holding and creating space for vulnerability is a piece of how we free ourselves as…

Food & Nutrition
7
3 Kings Project

3 Kings Project is at the forefront of driving positive representation and visibility in minority communities, with a mission to eradicate health inequities impacting Black and Brown LGBTQ populations.

Civil Rights
8
Equality Hi

Equality HI's Mission envisions a thriving and empowering culture that proactively engages in creating an inclusive and diverse queer community through aloha, leadership, resources, services and education.

Human Services
9
National Black Justice Collective

Our mission is to support the autonomy of Black LGBTQ+/SGL people, communities, and families by building community,changing hearts and minds, and advancing social justice.

Human Services
10
Unity Coalition Coalicion Unida Inc

UNITY COALITION|COALICION UNIDA is the organization for the Hispanic, Indigenous & Of Color LGBT+ communities, advancing Equality & Fairness, through the Arts, Education, and Awareness, since 2002.

Civil Rights
11
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

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12
Newburgh Lgbtqia Center

provide support & resources for LGBTQ POC

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Are Family; the most unlike its peers is Grimalkin Records Inc. 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

89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 119 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/89
Grantees still filing
46/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DANGERS OF THE MIND: $265,900 · OtherDANGERS OF THE MINDORANGE COUNTY TRANSLATINAS: $39,500 · OtherBountiful Cities Project: $33,875 · OtherSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $48,350 · Other+56 more: $544,730 · Other+56 moreTRANZMISSION INC: $185,204 · Human ServicesTRANZMISSION INCThe LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe LGBTQ Center of …Community Organizing for Racial Equity CORE: $23,444 · Human ServicesCommunity Organizing…Colaborativa La Milpa: $20,000 · Human ServicesNC Field Inc: $17,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTORATION: $16,500 · Human ServicesNARRATIVE ARTS: $16,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK INC: $15,000 · Human Services+10 more: $66,500 · Human Services+10 moreASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC: $91,625 · Arts & CultureASHEVILLE CREAT…PIECE BY PIECE: $39,600 · Arts & CulturePIECE BY PIECEVALORES INC: $23,875 · Arts & CultureVALORES INCGRIMALKIN RECORDS INC: $21,500 · Arts & CultureGRIMALKIN RECOR…WATAUGA COUNTY IMMIGRANT JUSTICE COALITION: $21,500 · Arts & CultureWATAUGA COUNTY …Marian Cheek Jackson Center: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMarian Cheek Ja…ENLACE LATINO NC INC: $17,500 · Arts & CultureENLACE LATINO N…REFLECT COLLECTIVE: $11,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bottom: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $32,723 · Arts & Culture+6 morePODER NC ACTION: $98,473 · Civil RightsPODER NC ACT…NORTH CAROLINA VOTER PROJECT: $33,460 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLI…WE ARE FAMILY: $17,500 · Civil RightsWE ARE FAMIL…Southern Fried Queer Pride Inc: $16,500 · Civil RightsSouthern Fri…Black LGBTQ Liberation Inc: $16,500 · Civil RightsBlack LGBTQ …UPSTATE LGBT CHAMBER FUND: $13,500 · Civil RightsUPSTATE LGBT…YOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC: $11,000 · Civil RightsCampaign For Southern Equality: $10,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $22,000 · Civil Rights+4 moreEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $71,625 · Community ImprovementFUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE: $28,500 · Community ImprovementPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA: $26,593 · Community ImprovementCenter for Participatory Change: $22,000 · Community ImprovementMERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP MERRICK MOORE COMMUNITY CLUB: $7,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $11,000 · Community ImprovementBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $57,000 · EducationDUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $20,000 · EducationNEW NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT: $15,000 · EducationDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6,770 · EducationCAROLINA MIGRANT NETWORK INC: $45,870 · Crime & LegalJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS: $8,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $7,884 · Crime & Legal
Other$932,355Human Services$385,648Arts & Culture$289,323Civil Rights$238,933Community Improvement$166,718Education$98,770Crime & Legal$61,754

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRANZMISSION INC: $185,204 over 4y, 88% of budgetPODER NC ACTION: $98,473 over 1y, 11% of budgetASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS INC: $91,625 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $71,625 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $57,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $48,350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAROLINA MIGRANT NETWORK INC: $45,870 over 2y, 26% of budgetPIECE BY PIECE: $39,600 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBountiful Cities Project: $33,875 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA VOTER PROJECT: $33,460 over 1y, 14% of budgetFUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE: $28,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WORKERS CENTER: $28,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCommunity Organizing for Racial Equity CORE: $23,444 over 1y, 16% of budgetCenter for Participatory Change: $22,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetGRIMALKIN RECORDS INC: $21,500 over 2y, 26% of budgetMarian Cheek Jackson Center: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetColaborativa La Milpa: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUBOIS INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNC Field Inc: $17,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetENLACE LATINO NC INC: $17,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY: $17,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION: $16,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Fried Queer Pride Inc: $16,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCAPITAL TEA INC: $16,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetNARRATIVE ARTS: $16,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBlack LGBTQ Liberation Inc: $16,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNEW NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUPSTATE LGBT CHAMBER FUND: $13,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetYOUTH OUTRIGHT WNC INC: $11,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCAPE FEAR RIVER ASSEMBLY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetREFLECT COLLECTIVE: $11,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMARSHAS TEA ROOM INC: $11,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetGame Changing Men Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $10,331 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLATINO COMMISSION ON AIDS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bottom: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCasa Azul De Wilson: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCampaign For Southern Equality: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Care Collective of Southwest Vi rginia: $8,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS: $8,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $6,770 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Borealis PhilanthropyNEO Philanthropy IncBlueprint North Carol…Amalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationZ Smith Reynolds Foun…Hispanic Federation I…Proteus Fund IncCommunity Foundation …Groundswell FundMs Foundation for Wom…Laughing Gull Foundat…
Borealis PhilanthropyMN52.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Borealis Philanthropy · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Blueprint North Carolina · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Groundswell Fund · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Laughing Gull Foundation

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 Vision Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southern Vision Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 79%
  • Disability Rights Florida Inc: 79% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Southern Vision Alliance?

Find your warmest path to Southern Vision Alliance 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 119 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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