Georgia · Nonprofit
SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC
SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,477,108 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($1,540,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Southeastern Legal Foundation Inc does
Mission
The primary purpose of the southeastern legal foundation, inc. (slf) is as a public interest law firm and policy center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In addition to legal services, the organization also conducts nonpartisan studies and researches and collects, compiles, and publishes full and fair presentation of facts, information, and statistics concerning the effects of government activities upon the social and economic institutions of the people of the united states.
$2,169,272 spent$101,451 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,169,272.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.1M to $8.1M (+14%).
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.
80% of SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Todd Young
CEO
Board chair
Ronnie Chance
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $75k → $1.2M.
8 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 51% · 2019 37% · 2020 44% · 2021 36% · 2022 47% · 2023 35% — broadly stable.
“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
41% of SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
60% of SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $630k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION 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 SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC?
- SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,477,108 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($1,540,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $4,477,108 in grants to SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC?
- THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 70 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