Alabama · Nonprofit
SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE
SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,100 to it, the largest being PETE M HANNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($101,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $68k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $164k
What Southeast Law Institute does
Mission
To provide free legal services and advice on constitutional issues of speech, religion, and other individual rights . These relate to individual rights and family rights in education, healthcare, and other times that governmental action may burden them. This assistance is given to individuals, churches, nonprofits and other entities.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization has not provided any grants, allocation or payments for its services. Program services expenses and only those for office rent, copies, etc. Nominal payments for independent contractor lawyer assistance was paid. Throughout the year, many requests for advice are received and responded to. Assistance is requested by governmental officials and elected officers for expert advice in the areas stated earlier.
$30,739 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $30,739.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $25k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE’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
SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 55% · 2019 61% · 2020 66% · 2021 61% · 2022 54% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,028 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,028 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE: 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 SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE?
- SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,100 to it, the largest being PETE M HANNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($101,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $164,100 in grants to SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE?
- PETE M HANNA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $101,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST LAW INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 2 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