SOUTHERN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B010

Classification

2000

Street

101 MARIETTA ST NW STE 1650

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• THE FUND FOR UNIVERSAL EDUCATION INC

  EIN 42-4507695

Mission and programs · 2024

• Southern Education Leadership Initiative Embedded across the strategies of SEF's three programmatic areas is our long-standing leadership development initiative, the Southern Education Leadership Initiative (SELI). Launched in 2004 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, SELI has now entered its third decade of cultivating leadership for educational equity and opportunity across the South. As we prepare to mark SELI's 21st year, we celebrate a legacy of 299 college and graduate students who have completed intensive training and paid summer fellowships through the program. These emerging leaders-diverse, driven, and deeply committed-represent the next generation of changemakers shaping the future of education policy and practice. Fellowship Overview The Southern Education Leadership Initiative (SELI) is an intensive, eight-week, paid summer fellowship for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students interested in advancing racial equity and improving education across the pre-kindergarten to college continuum. It is a continuation of SEF's legacy of educating leaders in the South, which spans more than a century. Our initiative recognized that there is still important work to be done to ensure that all children, irrespective of race or class, receive an excellent education. Placed in nonprofits, school districts, higher education institutions, education technology firms, or state education agencies in the South, SELI fellows spend the summer developing as leaders, engaging with valuable stakeholders, and acquiring practical job skills through direct learning experiences. Over SELI's tenure, 299 talented and diverse young leaders have conducted important research, policy analysis, advocacy, and organizing efforts for over 110 partner organizations. SELI alum can be found today working as educators, policymakers, researchers, community organizers, and committed civic leaders dedicated to improving the life chances of all children. The fellowship is delivered via three key activities: Orientation Training, Placement, and the Closing Meeting. The Orientation Training takes place in May each summer and exposes students to research and data around racial and socio-economic disparities in education, stresses the importance of education equity, offers site visits to see top issues in education firsthand, and provides opportunities to learn from inspiring leaders. Students depart from Orientation to their placement sites, where they work for eight weeks on projects to advance the capacity of their host sites, while developing their own leadership potential in the educational equity field. The Closing Meeting, held every July, presents an opportunity for fellows to share lessons learned, reflect, and brainstorm on how to continue making change as part of a network of emerging leaders in the sector. In the past year, SELI has expanded to include intentional alumni engagement, ensuring fellows are supported well beyond the summer experience. This ongoing support aims to bolster their leadership capacities and keep them connected to a broader network of changemakers. Alumni opportunities have included virtual professional learning webinars on timely topics in education and leadership, as well as the launch of a new, advanced summer fellowship exclusively for SELI alumni, developed in collaboration with Columbia University's Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL). These efforts reflect SELI's long-term commitment to cultivating and sustaining a robust pipeline of Southern education leaders. Racial Equity Leadership Network In districts all over the United States, race and class remain among the most reliable predictors of student success in school. Currently, in southern states, more than half of all the students enrolled in public school are from low-income families, with a growing number of families living in extreme poverty. The majority of public-school students in the South are also children of color, rapidly changing the demographics of large and small districts. The increasing diversity and inequities students and families confront creates an imperative for us to reimagine how we create a system that increases access and opportunity for all children to learn, develop, and thrive. We think the system we need now requires a bold and significant shift in educational leadership and practice. Leaders in every corner of our nation are being called to think, engage and act differently in the face of the complex challenges they navigate. Strengthening the will, skill and capacity of district leaders and their teams is an important lever for advancing authentic and enduring equity-centered system change. Funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Southern Education Foundation, Inc. is answering this call by hosting the Racial Equity Leadership Network (RELN) to advance the capacity of district leaders committed to enduring equity-centered systems change as a solution to addressing racial, economic and academic disparities in districts across the South. Fellowship Overview and Theory of Change The Racial Equity Leadership Network is an 18-month, cohort-style fellowship program for school district leaders who are committed to addressing persistent disparities in their systems and ensuring that race and class are no longer the most reliable predictors of student success. Each RELN cohort is comprised of up to twelve (12) executive leaders (i.e., Superintendents, Deputy Superintendents, Chief Academic Officers, etc.) from school systems across the South. Over the course of their fellowship experience, RELN fellows attend five (5) two-and-a-half-day network convening's focused on the essential levers for equity-centered leadership and system transformation. In between network convening's, the fellows also receive customized coaching and webinars to support the identification of a context-specific equity challenge. Finally, fellows receive grant support and other technical assistance to implement an action plan addressing their unique equity challenge during a six-month in-district work period. The RELN leadership development model follows a double helix approach incorporating two distinct, but intrinsically linked, strands of learning, engaging, and testing over the course of the 18-month fellowship. Fellows sharpen their individual racial equity lens and receive tools to enhance their capacity for influencing education policy and practice. Because this individual development is insufficient to create sustainable change within systems, fellows simultaneously identify specific policy or practice challenges to address within their districts, receive resources for engaging with others, and observe model districts making progress towards racial equity. Fellowship Outcomes As members of the Racial Equity Leadership Network, fellows (ideally) will: 1) Deepen awareness and understanding of the historical and contextual drivers of racial inequity in schools and make connections to present-day education policies and practices that perpetuate racial disparities in student opportunity and outcomes. 2) Challenge to examine their own attitude, beliefs, and assumptions about students' ability to learn, regardless of background. 3) Establish clear steps for an explicit racial equity vision for their systems and establishing racial equity as a fundamental value that is clearly articulated and championed by all school community members, who work collaboratively to advance sustainable, equitable opportunities and outcomes for students. 4) Strengthen their ability to diagnose, and ultimately create solutions to address, the inequities that they witness in their system. Gain a peer network and professional learning community of equity-oriented district leaders throughout the South. Since its inception, the Racial Equity Leadership Network has impacted the leadership journeys of 37 executive district leaders across four cohorts. Through their participation in the fellowship, these leaders have shifted the way they approach complex challenges in their systems, applying equity-centered strategies and tools in real-time. Each fellow represented a district in the South, spanning urban, suburban, and rural contexts, bringing with them diverse perspectives and a shared commitment to advancing opportunity and outcomes for all students.

  Expenses $8,895,442 · Grants $60,000 · Revenue $344,526

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.

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

  $14,669,225

  Expenses

  $10,833,231

  Contributions

  $8,225,676

  Grants paid

  $60,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,457,126

  Expenses

  $6,534,265

  Contributions

  $5,060,131

  Grants paid

  $50,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $8,861,264

  Expenses

  $4,267,510

  Contributions

  $7,556,460

  Grants paid

  $150,000

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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,003,274

  Expenses

  $2,731,508

  Assets (EOY)

  $32,697,616

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,943,333

  Expenses

  $3,338,001

  Assets (EOY)

  $27,828,839

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,354,220

  Expenses

  $4,393,255

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,469,811

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,565,353

  Expenses

  $4,317,463

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,014,560

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,091,937

  Expenses

  $4,278,245

  Assets (EOY)

  $30,236,682

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,216,724

  Expenses

  $2,802,275

  Assets (EOY)

  $25,921,446

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $7,370,024

  Expenses

  $3,097,101

  Assets (EOY)

  $26,399,087

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,026,025

  Expenses

  $3,167,149

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,120,169

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

• Fulton County Schools

  $75,000

  2022 · Support

• The Duval County School Board

  $65,000

  2022 · Support

• Duval County Public School

  $60,000

  2024 · Support

• Fulton County Schools

  $50,000

  2023 · Support

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• ECMC FOUNDATION

  $2,000,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SUPPORT

• AMERICA ACHIEVES INC

  $400,000

  2022 · ACCELERATE (STUDENT-TUTOR MATCHING)

• THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST

  $50,000

  2023 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $8,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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