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Alabama · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC (Alabama) is funded by 2153 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $171,448,470 in grants to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($21,381,779). 1384 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13 crime & legal nonprofits over $100M, FY2023
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
65% of SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (98% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
$2.3M from 104 funders in 2025, up from $11M and 602 in 2017.
194 of 2153 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 POVERTY LAW CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 2153 funders by total. Association, not causation.
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 9% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 15% · 2021 14% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% · 2024 12% · 2025 59% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
42% of SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 POVERTY LAW CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 51 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 2153 funders put you well-backed 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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record — $9k federal, $282 state.
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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.
71% of spending goes to programs.
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 40 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 2153funders 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