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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by PROJECT SOUTH THE INSTITUTION FOR THE ELIMINATION POVERTY & GENOCIDE.

This return was superseded by a later amendment. matched by us It is kept because history is preserved rather than replaced.

What the amendment changed

Compared with the latest return for 2023 , filed 3 March 2025. matched by us Only the Part I totals and the names listed in Part VII are compared. We relate returns by organization, tax year and form, and order them by each return's own timestamp; the filer's own "amended return" checkbox is a separate fact.

Total revenue
$11,980,885 changed to $10,028,511
Total expenses
$6,366,494 changed to $6,126,006
Contributions and grants received
$11,634,794 changed to $9,491,015
Grants paid
$1,815,150 changed to $2,030,044
Program service revenue
$100,823 changed to $181,099
Investment income
$42,237 changed to $146,888
Other revenue
$203,031 changed to $209,509
Total assets, end of year
$19,397,907 changed to $18,925,209
Total liabilities, end of year
$2,998,269 changed to $4,228,080
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$16,399,638 changed to $14,697,129
Program services expenses
$5,303,740 changed to $5,303,907
Management and general expenses
$626,688 changed to $637,677
Fundraising expenses
$436,066 changed to $184,422
Program service expenses (Part III)
$5,303,740 changed to $5,303,907

Listed only on the earlier return

  • Santrecheel Julian Graham
  • Suzanne Pharr

Totals

Total revenue
$11,980,885
Total expenses
$6,366,494
Contributions and grants received
$11,634,794
Grants paid
$1,815,150
Program service revenue
$100,823
Investment income
$42,237
Other revenue
$203,031
Total assets, end of year
$19,397,907
Total liabilities, end of year
$2,998,269
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$16,399,638
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$5,303,740
Management and general expenses
$626,688
Fundraising expenses
$436,066
Program service expenses (Part III)
$5,303,740

Program services were 83.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $468,863

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $11,165,931

  • 2a · Program service revenue: FACILITATION AND WRITING

    total $23,126 · related or exempt $23,126

  • 2b · Program service revenue: FISCAL SPONSORSHIP FEES

    total $77,697 · related or exempt $77,697

  • 2c · Program service revenue: PUBLICATIONS INCOME

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $42,237 · excluded $42,237

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER

    total $203,031 · excluded $203,031

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $203,031

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $1,815,150 · program services $1,815,150

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $2,218,785 · program services $1,775,028 · management and general $221,879 · fundraising $221,878

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $722,240 · program services $577,792 · management and general $72,224 · fundraising $72,224

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $263,885 · program services $211,108 · management and general $26,389 · fundraising $26,388

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $6,500 · management and general $6,500

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $108,595 · management and general $108,595

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $621,273 · program services $497,019 · management and general $62,128 · fundraising $62,126

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $5,822 · program services $4,658 · management and general $582 · fundraising $582

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $16,785 · program services $13,428 · management and general $1,679 · fundraising $1,678

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $125,187 · program services $100,150 · management and general $12,519 · fundraising $12,518

  • 17 · Travel

    total $93,749 · program services $74,999 · management and general $9,375 · fundraising $9,375

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $0

  • 20 · Interest

    total $17,081 · management and general $17,081

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $31,983 · program services $25,586 · management and general $3,199 · fundraising $3,198

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $49,837 · management and general $49,837

  • 24a · Other expenses: SUPPLIES

    total $106,487 · program services $85,190 · management and general $10,649 · fundraising $10,648

  • 24b · Other expenses: MOVEMENT SUPPORT

    total $80,167 · program services $64,134 · management and general $8,017 · fundraising $8,016

  • 24c · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBS

    total $50,451 · program services $40,361 · management and general $5,045 · fundraising $5,045

  • 24d · Other expenses: Printing and Publications

    total $7,873 · program services $6,298 · management and general $788 · fundraising $787

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $24,644 · program services $12,839 · management and general $10,202 · fundraising $1,603

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $14,229,732 · end of year $9,405,680

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $3,950,000 · end of year $4,474,900

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $51,994 · end of year $64,968

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,156,575

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $188,284

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,000,274 · end of year $968,291

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $94,945 · end of year $4,467,290

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $16,778 · end of year $16,778

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $46,822 · end of year $79,254

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $525,738 · end of year $505,922

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $7,999,272 · end of year $2,413,093

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $4,110,833 · end of year $16,399,638

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,661,058

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Project Souths mission is to build the foundation for successful broad-based social justice movements. Project South, Inc. works directly with communities pushed forward by conditions of poverty and racism in order to strengthen leadership for community organizing on critical frontlines of economic, racial, and social justice.

  • Project South operated the following programs in 2023:Youth ProgramsProject South Youth Programs develop youth leadership through popular political education, create alternative youth-run media programs, facilitate afterschool programming, and organize for education justice. The Septima Clark Community Power Institute is a month-long summer leadership development institute for 25-30 high-school-aged youth as participants and 5-6 college-aged young people as Action Team Leaders. Youth Speak Truth Radio Program engages 20-30 people in the Atlanta community to create and produce 26 bi-monthly public affairs programs called Youth Speak Truth on a community-based radio station.The Mutual Aid Liberation CenterIn partnership with the Hunger Coalition of Atlanta, Project South launched the Mutual Aid Liberation Center in July 2017. The two-story building and 5.1 acres of land are located in one of the most historic neighborhoods for African American history in the City of Atlanta. The shared project builds a base of Black residents, youth, and community members in South Atlanta through neighborhood organizing efforts to protect the land, provide education, address and prevent violence, provide emergency relief in the wake of crises, and engage grassroots political power. The Umoja Garden is a working farm that engages community members in agricultural learning opportunities and produces fresh vegetables for communities without access to adequate healthy food options. The 44 acres of land purchased in Spalding County also serves as an education and retreat space for the mutual aid liberation projects.Regional Organizing Programs Project Souths regional organizing programs and leadership development initiatives increase the number of skilled leaders and organizers with the capacity to implement cross-issue organizing efforts, develop root cause political analysis, and create long-term movement building strategies. Project South organizes to advance the Southern Peoples Initiative, a joint vision of the Southern Movement Assembly to grow new social economy projects, practice a peoples democracy through civic engagement and governance, and protect and defend our communities from violence. Project South coordinates the Black Radio Project, a network of Black and community-owned radio stations across 10 states in the U.S. rural and urban South to develop high quality content and support communications infrastructure across the region.Southern Movement AssemblyThe Southern Movement Assembly is a collaborative project that is part of our Regional Organizing. The SMA is a multiracial, multi-issue, multigenerational movement constellation of grassroots organizations across the U.S. South that practices democratic governance, coordinates shared actions, and convenes peoples movement assemblies (PMAs) of frontline communities to grow bottom-up power and build infrastructure for long-term liberation. A governance council of anchor organizations meets weekly; monthly calls inform and connect hundreds of members across the region, and regular people's movement assemblies develop shared platforms and action plans. Annual action plans advance regional efforts to dismantle systems of exploitation and build movement infrastructure.Legal & AdvocacyProject Souths legal and advocacy work provides direct consultation, representation, training, and legal field development to support communities facing discrimination, legislative marginalization, and repression including immigrants and migrants without documentation, refugees, Muslim communities, and Black young people. The Legal & Advocacy arm of Project South connects legal and advocacy work and movement lawyers with grassroots organizations focused on immigrants rights and defending Muslim communities. Through meaningful partnerships with universities, law schools, law firms, and organizations with legal strategies, Project South grows the legal infrastructure for social justice in the South.Movement SupportProject Souths movement support work provides capacity-building programs to Black and low-income organizations based in the U.S. South or with a focus on the South. Project Souths movement support work also includes the production of publications, reports, and materials for political education; and developing training sessions for leadership development to support organizers, activists, and educators. Project South provides short and long-term support to partner groups across the U.S. South through fiscal sponsorships, technical assistance, and leadership development. Project South also works with global partners to organize forums, institutes, and conferences that include analysis, history, and popular education workshop activities to support movement building.GroundworksAs part of our Movement Support work, the Groundworks program offers wrap-around strategic supports, fiscal sponsorships, fellowships, workshops, and facilitation consults with predominantly Black-led and frontline organizations in the U.S. South and beyond. Project South provides fiscal sponsorship and fiscal agency for groups doing extraordinary work to advance social, economic, gender, and ecological justice. In addition, Project South, Inc with three other social justice organizations in the South, created a collaborative project, Southern Power Fund, to raise and distribute funds via grants to Black, Indigenous, and frontline organizations in the U.S. South and Puerto Rico. The steering committee aims to move resources to respond to the needs of movement organizations often left out of traditional funding practices so that Project South, Inc. can continue to build a strong and resourced infrastructure in the South.

    Expenses $5,303,740

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Trupania Bonner

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Santrecheel Julian Graham

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Suzanne Pharr

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brenda Hyde

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eugene Newport

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carlton Turner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carolyn Pittman

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stephanie Guilloid

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • Emory Wright

    CO-DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
15 November 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202403209349314355

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