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Virginia · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER (Virginia) is funded by 272 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $288,274,123 in grants to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($221,683,800). 189 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$361k from 22 funders in 2025, up from $33M and 38 in 2017.
55 of 272 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 272 funders by total. Association, not causation.
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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: 2017 94% · 2018 85% · 2019 79% · 2020 69% · 2021 80% · 2022 67% · 2023 72% · 2024 71% · 2025 14% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
53% of SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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.
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 272 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
83% of spending goes to programs.
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 26 states
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 272funders 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. view filing