SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

I83Z

Classification

1000

Street

400 WASHINGTON AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

• SPLC ACTION FUND

  EIN 83-1085161

Mission and programs · 2024

• LEGAL - THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER (SPLC) SEEKS JUSTICE BY SUPPORTING VICTIMS OF CIVIL RIGHTS ABUSES AND HATE CRIMES AND PROMOTING THE CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF GROUPS MOST AFFECTED BY BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION IN OUR SOCIETY: COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, IMMIGRANTS, GUESTS WORKERS, CHILDREN, THE POOR, AND THE LGBT COMMUNITY - BOTH IN THE DEEP SOUTH AND NATIONWIDE. ITS CASE DOCKET FOCUSES ON HOLDING HATE GROUPS ACCOUNTABLE FOR MURDERS AND OTHER VIOLENT ACTS COMMITTED BY THEIR MEMBERS; ENDING WORKPLACE EXPLOITATION OF IMMIGRANTS; CHALLENGING UNCONSTITUTIONAL OR DISCRIMINATORY LAWS AND POLICIES AFFECTING IMMIGRANTS, COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND THE LGBT COMMUNITY; IN ADDITION TO WORKING TO REFORM JUVENILE JUSTICE, MENTAL HEALTH, AND EDUCATION SYSTEMS THAT FAIL CHILDREN AND ROUTINELY PUSH STUDENTS OUT OF CLASSROOMS AND INTO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, DISPROPORTIONATELY HARMING AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND LATINO STUDENTS LIVING IN POVERTY. THE SPLC ATTORNEYS FOCUS ON THESE CRITICAL CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES FROM FIVE SPLC OFFICES IN THE DEEP SOUTH. THE CENTER HAS IDENTIFIED FOUR AREAS OF WORK THAT POSE THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES TO ACHIEVING ITS MISSION. THE CENTER HAS PRIORITIZED THESE AREAS OF WORK IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE MAXIMUM IMPACT ON ITS GOALS, INCLUDING ERADICATING POVERTY AND RACIAL INCOME INEQUALITY, ENDING OVER-CRIMINALIZATION AND MASS INCARCERATION, STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY, AND COUNTERING WHITE SUPREMACY."

  Expenses $39,765,409 · Grants $160,000 · Revenue $123,759

• PUBLIC INFORMATION - THE SPLC'S PUBLIC INFORMATION AND EDUCATION EFFORTS SEEK TO COMBAT HATE AND BIAS IN OUR SOCIETY, EXPOSE EXTREMISM, AND REDUCE DISCRIMINATION AND INJUSTICE. THE SPLC PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT HATE GROUPS AND OTHER EXTREMISTS, THEIR ACTIVITIES, AND THEIR CRIMES TO THE PUBLIC, LAW ENFORCEMENT, POLICYMAKERS, HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS, AND THE MEDIA WITH THE GOAL OF PREVENTING HATE AND EXTREMISM FROM ENTERING THE MAINSTREAM. THE SPLC ALSO SEEKS TO FOSTER EQUALITY IN THE CLASSROOM AND SUPPORT TOLERANCE EDUCATION BY PROVIDING AWARD-WINNING, ANTI-BIAS MATERIALS TO MORE THAN 200,000 TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE. THE SPLC EDUCATES THE PUBLIC ON THE STRUCTURAL CAUSES, AND IMPACTS OF INEQUALITY AND USES A MULTIFACETED APPROACH OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION, MOBILIZATION, MEDIA AND LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY TO COMBAT BIAS AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITIES, IMMIGRANTS, THE POOR, THE LGBT COMMUNITY AND OTHER VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. ALL OF THE SPLC'S WORK IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE.

  Expenses $50,168,256 · Grants $852,500 · Revenue $49,657

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. 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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $149,576,773

  Expenses

  $127,910,803

  Contributions

  $127,336,336

  Grants paid

  $1,012,500

• 2023

  Revenue

  $129,063,290

  Expenses

  $128,982,970

  Contributions

  $106,479,020

  Grants paid

  $1,925,577

• 2022

  Revenue

  $169,857,376

  Expenses

  $122,131,443

  Contributions

  $109,707,329

  Grants paid

  $2,902,525

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $140,350,982

  Expenses

  $111,043,025

  Assets (EOY)

  $723,488,477

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $132,750,377

  Expenses

  $106,617,578

  Assets (EOY)

  $801,148,661

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $132,918,576

  Expenses

  $97,409,030

  Assets (EOY)

  $614,389,428

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $117,034,012

  Expenses

  $88,428,653

  Assets (EOY)

  $569,403,418

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $121,975,162

  Expenses

  $74,970,297

  Assets (EOY)

  $518,251,510

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• QUEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC

  $2,000,000

  2022 · GRANT FOR RESIDENCES AT GROVE PARK

• AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

  $850,000

  2023 · PERIL GRANT

• AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

  $350,000

  2024 · PARTNER ENGAGEMENT GRANT

• NEW VENTURE FUND

  $275,000

  2023 · NEW VENTURE FUND

• NEW VENTURE FUND

  $275,000

  2022 · NEW VENTURE FUND

• INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH & EXCHANGES BOARD

  $135,000

  2023 · PARTNER SUPPORT GRANT

• SNCC LEGACY PROJECT

  $100,000

  2023 · PROJECT SUPPORT

• INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE

  $100,000

  2023 · PARTNER SUPPORT GRANT

• IGNITE ALABAMA

  $100,000

  2023 · SELMA COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION

• AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2022 · ORGANIZING ACCELERATOR PROJECT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $5,170,254

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $4,154,413

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $3,507,571

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $2,760,013

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $2,187,368

  2022 · HUMAN SERVICES

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $2,037,606

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $1,631,915

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $1,379,946

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $1,369,490

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $898,651

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• TELEFUND LLC

  $305,461 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$82,158 to charity

• SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

  $112,299 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $34,353 to charity

• SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

  $533,096 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $335,036 to charity

• TELEFUND LLC

  $239,573 raised

  2023 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$109,026 to charity

• SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

  $353,211 raised

  2022 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $203,312 to charity

• TELEFUND LLC

  $222,874 raised

  2022 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$104,676 to charity

• SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

  $705,937 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $403,661 to charity

• TELEFUND INC.

  $142,304 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$17,980 to charity

• PUBLIC OUTREACH FUNDRAISING LLC

  $68,150 raised

  2021 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$592,486 to charity

• TELEFUND INC.

  $184,685 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $14,159 to charity

• SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

  $35,632 raised

  2020 · Commercial Fundraiser

  $29,489 to charity

• SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

  $231,650 raised

  2019 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$167,234 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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