Georgia · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP
SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being Georgia Bar Foundation Inc ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Southern Legal Center for Youth Corp does
Mission
To support the health, safety, stability, and education of young people in the Southern United States by advancing their legal rights. The Southern Legal Center for Youth's ultimate vision is that all young people in the South have their legal needs met so that they can secure housing, education, healthcare, and other benefits and resources they need. Service is provided to young people free of charge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Youth Homelessness Project: Serves young people between 12-24 years old in the metro Atlanta area who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness and experiencing a civil legal issue. Provides free legal support to help resolve issues related to housing insecurity and connect young people with resources for greater stability. In 2025, provided legal support to 27 clients ages 12-24 who are without their parents and held 1 legal clinic for vital documents support.
$27,131 spentof which $25,464 as grants81% of program spendingGender-Affirming Legal Care: Serves trans and gender-expansive youth ages 18-26 by increasing access to trauma-informed, youth-centered, and gender-affirming legal services for youth and young adults in Georgia through direct representation, clinics, and legal education, which center the identities and experiences of trans and gender expansive young people. In 2025, held 5 gender-affirming name change legal clinics that served 40 clients ages 18-26. Also conducted 2 training and capacity building events for legal professionals.
$3,424 spentof which $21,000 as grants10% of program spendingSouthern Kiki Leaders Collective: A grassroots youth leadership pipeline designed to empower Black, LGBTQIA2S+, and gender-expansive youth across the Southern U.S. through culturally relevant sexual health advocacy, legal education, workforce development, and systems navigation. 2025 membership included 51 young people.
$3,065 spentof which $20,000 as grants9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,620.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $11k to $99k (+808%).
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.
100% of SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Elizabeth Harding
Board President, Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP’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
SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
100% 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 SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP.
“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
78% of SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP: 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 SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP?
- SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being Georgia Bar Foundation Inc ($35,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $45,000 in grants to SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP?
- Georgia Bar Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN LEGAL CENTER FOR YOUTH CORP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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