Georgia · Nonprofit
PRESS ON SOUTH INC
PRESS ON SOUTH INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,851,550 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Press on South Inc does
Mission
Press on is a southern media collective that catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The southern movement media fund (smmf) provides individual and collective grants to southern media makers and journalists who practice movement journalism. These grants support recipients in working alongside their communities, collaborating with one another and with movement partners, to produce the news and information people need to make informed decisions about their lives.
$160,697 spentof which $113,500 as grants34% of program spendingMovement building fosters networks between organizers and journalists to uplift the work of community members and advance social justice through storytelling and narrative.
$81,562 spent17% of program spendingCommunications works to amplify the long history of southern storytelling and designed for journalists, storytellers, and organizers in the u.s. South whose work advances justice.
$55,786 spent12% of program spendingLevel up is an educational program that equips journalists and community media makers with the analysis, skills, and tools they need to transform the field of journalism and expand the practice of southern movement journalism.
$115,416 spent24% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$62,103 spent$550 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $475,564.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $618k (−48%).
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.
99% of PRESS ON SOUTH INC’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. 2 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Tina Vasquez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $600k → $250k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 PRESS ON SOUTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
PRESS ON SOUTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 58% · 2022 99% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
PRESS ON SOUTH INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PRESS ON SOUTH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PRESS ON SOUTH INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRESS ON SOUTH INC: 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 PRESS ON SOUTH INC?
- PRESS ON SOUTH INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,851,550 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESS ON SOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,851,550 in grants to PRESS ON SOUTH INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESS ON SOUTH INC?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESS ON SOUTH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing