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Southface Energy Institute Inc

Southface promotes sustainable homes, workplaces, and communities through education, research, advocacy, and technical assistance.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
82
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MYouth Development$1.1MHealth$617kEducation$540kReligion$449kEnvironment$429kHousing & Shelter$394kOther$0
02FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k71 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $721k
$37,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY CENTER FOR HOPE$150,000
FULTON COUNTY RESILIENCE HUB$90,000
SUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK$75,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND$75,000
SALVATION ARMY GALVESTON TX$75,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$75,000
CHATT FOUNDATION$75,000
HISTORIC OAKLAND FOUNDATION$53,141
HISTORIC OAKLAND FOUNDATION$53,141
THE SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CAPITAL$45,500
SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CAPITAL ARE$45,500
GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL$43,428
SALVATION ARMY JONESBORO$40,941
SALVATION ARMY JONESBORO$40,941
SALVATION ARMY JONESBORO$40,941
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $482k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $80k → 16%EKVN-YEFOLECV: $75k → 18%NO BOUNDARIES: $27k → 12%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $38k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $38k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $37k → 16%LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $37k → 16%THE BETHLEHEM CENTER: $55k → 12%HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY: $18k → 12%HOPE FOR THE INNER CITY: $18k → 12%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $30k → 13%NORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $30k → 13%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

ID
MA
NV
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 25 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
44

Total granted

$3.7M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+2%

Still filing today

88%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LJ
    LEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $229k · revenue +14%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +12%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • BC
    BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -98%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $99k · revenue +33%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIAINC
    one grant, 2023 · $84k · revenue -15%
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.

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Amazement Square

The museum's mission is dedicated to motivating children and adults of all backgrounds and abilities toward greater creativity and understanding of themselves and the world through hands-on learning.

Arts & Culture
2
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
3
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
4
Dunwoody Nature Center Inc

Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…

Environment
5
Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development
6
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee

Boys & girls clubs of middle tennessee's ("bgcmt") mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. in essence, we seek to save and…

Youth Development
8
Greenwood Community Theatre Inc

Greenwood community theatre aspires to enrich the community by creating and fostering professionalism and diversity in all its theatrical endeavors and experiences.

Arts & Culture
9
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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10
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
11
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
12
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Sarasota and Desoto Counties Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cumberland County Public Library. 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

88 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. 88 of the 97 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/88
Grantees still filing
51/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $1,143,760 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $226,504 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INCBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER: $150,000 · OtherGOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA INC: $133,327 · Other+40 more: $2,315,396 · Other+40 moreBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $135,054 · Arts & CultureBIRMINGHAM LANDM…FRIENDS OF THE STRAND INC: $119,047 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE S…SOUTHSIDE THEATRE GUILD: $108,040 · Arts & CultureSOUTHSIDE THEATR…ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $83,191 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUF…TYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC: $75,193 · Arts & CultureTYBEE ISLAND MAR…WYLDE CENTER INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureWYLDE CENTER INCSarasota Opera Association Inc: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Opera A…THE GREATER CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC TELEVISION CORPORATION: $67,082 · Arts & CultureTHE GREATER CHAT…Creative Discovery Museum: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT: $60,000 · Arts & CultureThe Theatrical Outfit Inc: $50,250 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $225,839 · Arts & Culture+9 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirl Scou…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …Girls Incorporated of Columbus and Phenix-Russell: $37,373 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA: $29,625 · Youth DevelopmentLightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc: $150,000 · HealthLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $131,316 · HealthSUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK INC DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS: $75,000 · HealthEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $75,000 · HealthCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $60,000 · HealthOHIO COUNTY HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $40,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST VIRAL MED INC: $30,000 · HealthSERTOMA KIDS INC: $29,433 · HealthLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $229,346 · Human ServicesEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $75,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesUNITED METHODIST NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $54,871 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR THE INNER CITY INC: $35,994 · Human ServicesNo Boundaries Integ Svcs for Indep Living Inc: $26,535 · Human Services+1 more: $9,473 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOUSE AT SERENBE INC: $135,000 · EducationGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $86,856 · EducationRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $75,000 · EducationPARENTS FOR MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC: $60,000 · EducationBENNETT COLLEGE: $47,526 · EducationTHE SAE SCHOOL INC: $28,874 · Education+1 more: $14,922 · EducationThe Mountain Retreat & Learning Center Inc: $133,762 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIAINC: $84,475 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $60,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,968,987Arts & Culture$1,133,696Youth Development$651,998Health$590,749Human Services$491,219Education$448,178Philanthropy$278,237

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEVITE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $229,346 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VALLEY INC: $226,504 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER: $150,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $135,054 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOUSE AT SERENBE INC: $135,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $135,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Mountain Retreat & Learning Center Inc: $133,762 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGOODWILL OF NORTH GEORGIA INC: $133,327 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $131,316 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE STRAND INC: $119,047 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTennessee Aquarium: $117,799 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHSIDE THEATRE GUILD: $108,040 over 3y, 33% of budgetHistoric Oakland Foundation Inc: $106,282 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OCOEE REGION: $99,230 over 1y, 1.8% of budget247 GATEWAY LLC: $98,190 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS: $90,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $86,856 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIAINC: $84,475 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $83,191 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL DRIVE MINISTRIES INC: $80,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC: $75,193 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUNCOAST COMMUNITIES BLOOD BANK INC DBA SUNCOAST BLOOD CENTERS: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWYLDE CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEKVNV YEFOLECVLKE: $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHATT FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFERNCLIFF CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $73,845 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC: $73,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - DEKALB: $72,954 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE GREATER CHATTANOOGA PUBLIC TELEVISION CORPORATION: $67,082 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $61,669 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH FULTON COMMUNITY CHARITIES INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum: $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARENTS FOR MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMUSIC CONSERVATORY OF SANDPOINT: $60,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Community Foundat…Chattanooga Christian…William G and Marie S…Georgia Power Foundat…Manatee Community Fou…AEC TrustThe Imlay Foundation …Gulf Coast Community …The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Weldon F Osborne Foun…
Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta MainMO23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · AEC Trust · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc

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 Southface Energy Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southface Energy Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Trust: 100% of income from government
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Annapolis Maritime Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
32report 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.

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 97 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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