Totals
- Total revenue
- $3,390,105
- Total expenses
- $7,787,241
- Contributions and grants received
- $3,494,308
- Grants paid
- $3,409,500
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- -$131,203
- Other revenue
- $27,000
- Total assets, end of year
- $19,100,529
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $152,442
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $18,948,087
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $5,968,441
- Management and general expenses
- $1,597,119
- Fundraising expenses
- $221,681
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $5,968,441
Program services were 76.6% 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.
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$3,494,308
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3 · Investment income
total $4,296 · excluded $4,296
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6a · Gross rents
real property $27,000
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6c · Rental income or loss
real property $27,000
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $27,000 · related or exempt $27,000
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $21,286 · other assets $500,000
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $21,680 · other assets $635,105
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7c · Gain or loss
securities -$394 · other assets -$135,105
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7d · Net gain or loss
total -$135,499 · excluded -$135,499
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11e · Other revenue, total
$0
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $3,378,000 · program services $3,378,000
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $31,500 · program services $31,500
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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 $184,790 · program services $138,592 · management and general $18,480 · fundraising $27,718
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $1,339,300 · program services $947,017 · management and general $253,265 · fundraising $139,018
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $313,725 · program services $223,458 · management and general $55,936 · fundraising $34,331
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $119,198 · program services $84,902 · management and general $21,252 · fundraising $13,044
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11a · Fees: management
total $0
-
11b · Fees: legal
total $0
-
11c · Fees: accounting
total $54,502 · management and general $54,502
-
11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
-
11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
-
11f · Fees: investment management
total $0
-
11g · Fees: other
total $1,548,865 · program services $856,514 · management and general $692,351
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
-
13 · Office expenses
total $0
-
14 · Information technology
total $0
-
15 · Royalties
total $0
-
16 · Occupancy
total $83,343 · program services $50,020 · management and general $33,323
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17 · Travel
total $386,631 · program services $105,415 · management and general $274,806 · fundraising $6,410
-
18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
-
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $897 · program services $897
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20 · Interest
total $0
-
21 · Payments to affiliates
total $0
-
22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $5,449 · management and general $5,449
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23 · Insurance
total $11,515 · management and general $11,515
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24a · Other expenses: SUPPLIES
total $112,139 · program services $67,238 · management and general $44,869 · fundraising $32
-
24b · Other expenses: FOOD AND MEALS
total $80,361 · program services $38,194 · management and general $42,041 · fundraising $126
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24c · Other expenses: DUES AND SUBS
total $40,408 · program services $3,786 · management and general $36,622
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24d · Other expenses: BAD DEBT EXPENSE
total $33,402 · program services $33,402
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24e · All other expenses
total $63,216 · program services $9,506 · management and general $52,708 · fundraising $1,002
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $18,746,978 · end of year $14,873,165
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
end of year $0
-
3 · Pledges and grants receivable
beginning of year $3,289,640 · end of year $3,766,750
-
4 · Accounts receivable
beginning of year $398,405 · end of year $460,614
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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 $600 · end of year $0
-
10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis
$80,226
-
10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation
$80,226
-
10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
beginning of year $565,728 · end of year $0
-
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 $3,000 · end of year $0
-
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses
beginning of year $21,491 · end of year $57,677
-
25 · Other liabilities
beginning of year $139,701 · end of year $94,765
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27 · Net assets without donor restrictions
beginning of year $14,695,356 · end of year $13,950,762
-
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions
beginning of year $8,147,803 · end of year $4,997,325
Mission and programs · 2024
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.
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For the year ended December 31, 2024, SONG operated the following programs:(i) Local Campaign Training and Organizing: In 2024, SONG continued to train LGBTQ leaders in seven local chapters across the South in grassroots campaign organizing and intersectional methodology and connect leaders building local organizing campaigns with each other. Responding to the changing conditions in 2024, leaders in local sites worked with regional staff to develop campaigns focusing on Housing & Land Liberation, Protecting the Queer & Trans Kindred, and Stopping Criminalization. Additionally, SONG members worked to evolve organizing practices in the response to climate disaster 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 2024, SONG continued to participate as a partner in multiple coalitions including Movement 4 Black Lives, 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. The coalition has been anchored by four core organizations: SONG, Highlander Training Center, Alternate ROOTS, Inc., and Project South, Inc. As one of the 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 48,955 Southern LGBTQ Black people, people of color, rural, working class, and immigrant people. In 2024, SONG continued its 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 have happened virtually and in-person to support continued connection while also being mindful of our immunocompromised members and staff. We were able to engage members using online meeting tools and old school technologies like phone calls. In response to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing climate catastrophes, SONG continued to offer a member support fund and distributed funds for emergency support to SONG members and other community members in need. Through these programs in 2024, 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 $5,968,441 · Grants $3,409,500
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part VII
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AESHA RASHEED
CO DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $92,395
- From this org
- $92,395
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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WENDI MOORE-O'NEAL
CO DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $92,395
- From this org
- $92,395
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
KAREN MOSLEY
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ROBERTO TIJERINA
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
SELMA ALAMIN
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
HERMELINDA CORTES
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
-
$1,655,000
GENERAL OPERATIONS
-
FAIRMONT EL SAN JUAN HOTEL
$1,600,000
HURRICANE RAPID RESPONSE
-
$25,000
HURRICANE RAPID RESPONSE
-
CORNBREAD & ROSES COUNSELING
$25,000
HURRICANE RAPID RESPONSE
-
$25,000
HURRICANE RAPID RESPONSE
-
$25,000
HURRICANE RAPID RESPONSE
-
$10,000
GENERAL OPERATIONS
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 4 November 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202533089349301798
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