Texas · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING
SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,999,598 to it, the largest being Taproot Earth ($1,240,333). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $177k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $401k
What Southern Sector Rising does
Mission
Environmental justice and climate change policy, advocacy, and aid.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fiscal sponsorship louisiana colors of change formation - providing nonprofit (501(c)(3)) status coverage, allowing grassroots groups or projects to receive tax-deductible donations and grants under ssr's umbrella. Receiving and managing funds, donations and grants go through ssr, which ensures funds are used for charitable purposes. Administrative & compliance support, financial oversight, reporting, and ensuring alignment with irs and grant requirements. Capacity building & credibility, helping smaller or emerging initiatives gain legitimacy and access funding they otherwise couldn't.
$202,835 spentof which $3,700 as grants52% of program spendingSandbranch water project - sandbranch is a former freedman's town low-income, black, brown, and white community with no running water, no sewer, or sanitation. Sandbranch residents have wells, but they are not in use because the well water was tested and determined to be non-drinkable and harmful to their health. The water contamination is believed to be from the city of dallas's wastewater treatment plant, less than a mile from the community. Ssr provides 275-gallon water totes to each resident, refills those water totes bi-weekly, for the residents to have nonpotable water to take baths, use for sanitation, water the animals, plants, and other necessary uses. This is a short-term solution. We are working with other organizations, as well as the sandbranch development water supply corporation board, to develop a long-term solution for residents to obtain running water and sanitation on their properties.
$130,073 spent34% of program spendingTexas enviromental hub - providing nonprofit (501(c)(3)) status coverage, allowing grassroots groups or projects to receive tax-deductible donations and grants under ssr's umbrella. Receiving and managing funds, donations and grants go through ssr, which ensures funds are used for charitable purposes. Administrative & compliance support, financial oversight, reporting, and ensuring alignment with irs and grant requirements. Capacity building & credibility, helping smaller or emerging initiatives gain legitimacy and access funding they otherwise couldn't.
$51,340 spentof which $30,875 as grants13% of program spendingOther: floral farms, enviromental justice
$2,112 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $386,360.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $326k to $1.0M (+218%).
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.
98% of SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Marsha Jackson
Executive director
Board chair
Allen Mcgill
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $100k → $1.3M.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $152k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Southern Sector Rising). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING’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 SECTOR RISING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 SECTOR RISING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 2023 89% — 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
SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k 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
SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING has grown faster than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING?
- SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,999,598 to it, the largest being Taproot Earth ($1,240,333). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,999,598 in grants to SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING?
- Taproot Earth is the largest funder on record, with $1,240,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN SECTOR RISING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 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