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SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC

EIN 59-0939481 TALLAHASSEE, FL

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Revenue 2023
$1,928,198
Expenses 2023
$2,205,566

Program services were 80.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82Z
Classification
1200
Street
322 STADIUM DR

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).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THROUGH RENT-FREE HOUSING AND COOPERATIVE LIVING, SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION SUPPORT STUDENTS WHO LACK FINANCIAL RESOURCES, DEMONSTRATE EXCELLENT ACADEMIC MERIT, AND EXEMPLIFY GOOD CHARACTER ATTEND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THROUGH RENT-FREE HOUSING AND COOPERATIVE LIVING, SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION SUPPORTS STUDENTS WHO LACK FINANCIAL RESOURCES, DEMONSTRATE EXCELLENT ACADEMIC MERIT, AND EXEMPLIFY GOOD CHARACTER ATTEND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

  • BY PROVIDING RENT-FREE HOUSING, SOUTHERN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (SSF), DRAMATICALLY REDUCES THE COST OF LIVING, THUS INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD THAT LOW INCOME STUDENTS WILL COMPLETE THEIR DEGREES. THROUGH COOPERATIVE LIVING, RESIDENTS MANAGE HOUSEHOLD BUDGETS, ENFORCE RULES DESIGNED TO SUPPORT A CLEAN, SAFE ENVIRONMENT; AND THEY COOK MEALS AND EAT TOGETHER. RESIDENTS HAVE A HOME, A COMMUNITY, AND A SUPPORT NETWORK FROM THE FIRST DAY THEY ENTER THEIR HOUSES. SSF OPERATES 26 HOUSES AND SERVES AN AVERAGE OF 400 RESIDENTS IN GAINESVILLE, FT. MYERS, AND TALLAHASSEE, FL.

    Expenses $1,768,501 · Revenue $219,711

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jim Davis

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dr Sheila K Dickison

    CHAIR ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Paula Deboles-Johnson

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ryan Tucker

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rhoda Glasco Foderingham

    IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anne Toulouse

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • David Ashburn

    AT-LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alix Alexis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dhyana Ziegler PhD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gayla Parks

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jill Varnes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Jenkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kathryn Bell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kelly Sleeper

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kiana Peters

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lashondia Kendrick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Linda Jenkins

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lynn Leverty

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mary K Bedford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nicholas Appelo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Pamela Paulk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ja'Chelle Johnson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jim Wylie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bill Oliver

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Natasha St Hillaire

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,928,198
    Expenses
    $2,205,566
    Contributions
    $1,470,203
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,607,327
    Expenses
    $2,261,483
    Contributions
    $1,029,236
    Grants paid
    $0

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,304,373
    Expenses
    $2,138,813
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,545,693
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,863,061
    Expenses
    $2,562,989
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,944,501
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,864,873
    Expenses
    $2,300,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,517,549
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,073,302
    Expenses
    $1,981,936
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,929,177
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,263,723
    Expenses
    $1,950,039
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,751,301
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,835,637
    Expenses
    $1,904,011
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,021,731
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,044,289
    Expenses
    $1,662,472
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,029,709
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,673,600
    Expenses
    $1,710,343
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,214,104
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,578,301
    Expenses
    $1,485,820
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,365,882
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,250,204
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,609,465

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

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.