North Carolina · Nonprofit
Campaign For Southern Equality
Campaign For Southern Equality (North Carolina) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,341,143 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,305,195). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Campaign For Southern Equality does
Mission
The Campaign for Southern Equality works for full LGBTQ equality - both legal and lived - across the South. Our work is rooted in commitments to equity and empathy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Campaign for Southern Equality launched a new program in response to Hurricane Helene to provide services and relief to people impacted by the storm.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Legal Equality Project: Activities included grassroots organizing and advocacy to oppose anti-LGBTQ bills in SC through SC United for Justice and Equality; advocating for inclusive policies and practices in public schools in NC; and rapid response organizing through our Meeting the Moment campaign.
$1,944,125 spentof which $439,839 as grants$3,332 earned by the program100% of program spendingTrans Youth Emergency Project: Activities include providing a continuum of support to families of transgender youth.
Southern Equality Research and Policy Center: Activities include conducting community-based research on the experiences of LGBTQ Southerners and supporting the research initiatives of early stage academics working in this field.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,944,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $2.5M (+72%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Campaign For Southern Equality’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $345k → $2.5M.
20 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Campaign For Southern Equality’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Campaign For Southern Equality has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Campaign For Southern Equality.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 35% · 2019 37% · 2020 16% · 2021 23% · 2022 18% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
31% of Campaign For Southern Equality's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Campaign For Southern Equality draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Campaign For Southern Equality holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Campaign For Southern Equality
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Campaign For Southern Equality: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Campaign For Southern Equality?
- Campaign For Southern Equality (North Carolina) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,341,143 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,305,195). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Campaign For Southern Equality have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $9,341,143 in grants to Campaign For Southern Equality, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Campaign For Southern Equality?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,305,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Campaign For Southern Equality find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 78 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing