Georgia · Nonprofit
PROJECT SOUTH INC
PROJECT SOUTH INC (Georgia) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,983,054 to it, the largest being POLICYLINK ($7,697,989). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 153
- Grants received
- $52M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Project South Inc does
Mission
Project souths mission is to build the foundation for successful broad-based social justice movements. Project south, inc. Works directly with communities pushed forward by conditions of poverty and racism in order to strengthen leadership for community organizing on critical frontlines of economic,racial, and social justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
For the year ended December 31, 2023, Project South, Inc. operated the following programs:(i) Brownsville Future Project:Brownsville Future Project: Project South organizes locally in our South Atlanta neighborhoods to defend against gentrification, structural racism and other forms of oppression while building grassroots resident and youth power to transform our neighborhood towards a vision of economic and racial justice. In partnership with the Hunger Coalition of Atlanta, Project South launched the Mutual Aid Liberation Center in July 2017. The two-story building and 5.1 acres of land is located in one of the most historic neighborhoods for African American history in the City of Atlanta. The shared project builds a base of Black residents, youth, and community members in South Atlanta through neighborhood organizing efforts to protect the land, provide education, address and prevent violence, provide emergency relief in the wake of crises, and engage grassroots political power.(ii)Countering State Repression:Countering State Repression: Project South develops legal and advocacy projects and programs to research state surveillance attempts; investigate Georgia detention…
$5,303,907 spentof which $2,030,044 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,303,907.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6.2M to $28M (+347%).
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: 2020 2% · 2023 5% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Trupania Bonner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $807k → $10M.
33 of 153 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $405k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Project South Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PROJECT SOUTH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PROJECT SOUTH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 153 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
PROJECT SOUTH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
64% 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 PROJECT SOUTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 33% · 2019 20% · 2020 8% · 2021 40% · 2022 13% · 2023 22% — diversifying over time.
“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
32% of PROJECT SOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
PROJECT SOUTH INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 24 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.
Organizations like PROJECT 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
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT 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 PROJECT SOUTH INC?
- PROJECT SOUTH INC (Georgia) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,983,054 to it, the largest being POLICYLINK ($7,697,989). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT SOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 153 organizations giving $51,983,054 in grants to PROJECT SOUTH INC, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT SOUTH INC?
- POLICYLINK is the largest funder on record, with $7,697,989 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 153 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