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SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION

SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION (Illinois) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,928,171 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($675,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.4M
Revenue FY2024
41
Funders on record
$4.9M
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
26/41 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve38.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($259k) Expenses 100 ($197k) Net assets 100 ($205k)2019 Revenue 89 ($231k) Expenses 94 ($186k) Net assets 122 ($250k)2020 Revenue 357 ($925k) Expenses 199 ($393k) Net assets 381 ($783k)2021 Revenue 339 ($879k) Expenses 255 ($504k) Net assets 564 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 544 ($1.4M) Expenses 309 ($609k) Net assets 954 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 489 ($1.3M) Expenses 349 ($688k) Net assets 1237 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 557 ($1.4M) Expenses 444 ($875k) Net assets 1514 ($3.1M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (557)Expenses (444)Net assets (1514)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$62k
18
$45k
19
$532k
20
$375k
21
$801k
22
$580k
23
$569k
24
39
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $94k → $809k.

8 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)37% 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 SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

66% 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 SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION.

14%
largest funder
39%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 44% · 2019 57% · 2020 30% · 2021 53% · 2022 33% · 2023 32%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

14% of SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 11 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
OH
CA
CO
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

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 41 funders put you under-funded 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.

Organizations like SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION

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.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 28%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION?
SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION (Illinois) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,928,171 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($675,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,928,171 in grants to SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHSIDERS ORGANIZED FOR UNITY AND LIBERATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 41funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing