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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND.

This return was superseded by a later amendment.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 2022 , filed 17 April 2024. 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
$3,227,381 changed to $3,143,433
Total expenses
$3,243,367 changed to $3,244,725
Contributions and grants received
$3,212,707 changed to $2,963,479
Grants paid
$457,137 changed to $457,637
Investment income
$1,292 changed to $1,402
Other revenue
$13,382 changed to $178,552
Total assets, end of year
$24,176,280 changed to $25,205,973
Total liabilities, end of year
$159,740 changed to $159,739
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$24,016,540 changed to $25,046,234
Program services expenses
$2,639,473 changed to $2,492,189
Management and general expenses
$347,980 changed to $540,517
Fundraising expenses
$255,914 changed to $212,019
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,639,473 changed to $2,492,189

Totals

Total revenue
$3,227,381
Total expenses
$3,243,367
Contributions and grants received
$3,212,707
Grants paid
$457,137
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$1,292
Other revenue
$13,382
Total assets, end of year
$24,176,280
Total liabilities, end of year
$159,740
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$24,016,540
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,639,473
Management and general expenses
$347,980
Fundraising expenses
$255,914
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,639,473

Program services were 81.4% 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.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $3,212,707

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,292 · excluded $1,292

  • 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: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $13,382 · excluded $13,382

  • 11b · Other revenue: SPEAKER FEES

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $13,382

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $405,000 · program services $405,000

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $52,137 · program services $52,137

  • 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 $180,000 · program services $135,000 · management and general $45,000

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $925,630 · program services $740,504 · management and general $92,563 · fundraising $92,563

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $208,858 · program services $167,086 · management and general $20,886 · fundraising $20,886

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $86,945 · program services $69,556 · management and general $8,695 · fundraising $8,694

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $0

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $0

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $0

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $888,056 · program services $710,445 · management and general $88,806 · fundraising $88,805

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $10,525 · program services $8,420 · management and general $1,053 · fundraising $1,052

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $18,219 · program services $14,575 · management and general $1,822 · fundraising $1,822

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $166,355 · program services $133,084 · management and general $16,636 · fundraising $16,635

  • 17 · Travel

    total $149,562 · program services $119,650 · management and general $14,956 · fundraising $14,956

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $690 · program services $552 · management and general $69 · fundraising $69

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $0

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $23,534 · management and general $23,534

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $9,949 · management and general $9,949

  • 24a · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBS

    total $42,432 · program services $33,946 · management and general $4,243 · fundraising $4,243

  • 24b · Other expenses: LICENSES

    total $18,238 · program services $14,590 · management and general $1,824 · fundraising $1,824

  • 24c · Other expenses: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

    total $15,089 · program services $12,071 · management and general $1,509 · fundraising $1,509

  • 24d · Other expenses: FOOD AND MEALS

    total $11,397 · program services $9,118 · management and general $1,140 · fundraising $1,139

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $30,751 · program services $13,739 · management and general $15,295 · fundraising $1,717

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $14,561,261 · end of year $16,849,294

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $8,560,000 · end of year $6,341,250

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $418,168 · end of year $360,423

  • 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

    beginning of year $7,408 · end of year $33,242

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

    $750,935

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

    $163,114

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $607,813 · end of year $587,821

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 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 $1,250 · end of year $4,250

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $44,626 · end of year $100,749

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $78,748 · end of year $58,991

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $10,876,226 · end of year $11,640,240

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $13,156,300 · end of year $12,376,300

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

Southerners on New Ground, Inc. (SONG) is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. SONG builds, sustains, and connects a southern regional base of LBGTQ people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in the communities. SONG builds this movement through leadership development, intersectional analysis, and organizing. Since 1993, SONG has been known, both regionally and nationally, for organizing and training work across issues of race, class, gender and sexuality with both LGBTQ people and allies. SONG works to build and maintain a Southern LGBTQ infrastructure for organizers strong enough to combat the Southern-specific strategy of the Right to divide and conquer Southern oppressed communities.

  • For the year ended December 31, 2022, SONG operated the following programs:(i)Local Campaign Training and Organizing: In 2022, SONG continued to train LGBTQ leaders across the South in grassroots campaign organizing and intersectional methodology and connect leaders building local organizing campaigns with each other. In 2022 as SONG went through a process of strategic planning and strategic alignment, leaders in local sites worked with regional staff to assess the status of their formations as they continued to identify local organizing opportunities to engage alongside organizational planning. Additionally, SONG members continued to evolve organizing practices in response to continued pandemic conditions which required shifts in organizing methodology and limited campaign tactics.(ii) Coalition and Alliance Work: SONG brings LGBTQ leadership, expertise, and visibility to key racial and economic justice alliances and organizing fights in the South and incubates collaborative work that helps to connect bases and shared priorities. In 2022, SONG continued to participate as a partner in multiple coalitions including Movement 4 Black Lives, the National Bail Out Collective and Rising Majority as well as partnering with other local and statewide coalitions and alliances throughout the South.SONG also continued to serve as an anchor organization along with eight other Southern movement organizations to lead the Southern Power Fund which was designed to raise and distribute resources to grassroots organizations across the South. As one of four anchor organizations of the Southern Power Fund, SONG helped raise funds to redistribute to smaller southern organizations.(iii) Regional Membership & Base-building: SONG maintains and builds a base of more than 3,000 Southern LGBTQ Black people, people of color, rural, working class, and immigrant people. In 2022, SONG continued our work to connect and support SONGs base through general membership meetings, training and leadership development, communications work, and regional convenings. Due to continued pandemic conditions SONGs gatherings which have been central to our work had to continue virtually as our staff worked to support continued connection with using online meeting tools and old school technologies like phone calls.In continued response to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing climate catastrophes, SONG offered a member support fund and distributed funds for emergency support to SONG members and other community members in need due to pandemic-driven economic crisis and environmental emergencies.Through these programs in 2022, SONG brought leadership to intersectional organizing projects; further developed leadership within a multi-racial, intergenerational LGBTQ base; and engaged Southern LGBTQ people in projects and campaigns that directly addressed institutional and social injustice.

    Expenses $2,639,473

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Aesha Rasheed

    CO DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,000
    From this org
    $90,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Wendi Moore-O'Neal

    CO DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $90,000
    From this org
    $90,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Roberto Tijerina

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Selma Alamin

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Hermelinda Cortes

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Karen Mosley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paulina Helm-Hernandez

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dj Hudson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • THE SMILE TRUST

    $250,000

    GENERAL OPERATIONS

  • FOUNDATION FOR A JUST SOCIETY

    $95,000

    GENERAL OPERATIONS

  • SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTR

    $60,000

    GENERAL OPERATIONS

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
13 November 2023
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202313179349303296

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