- Revenue 2025
- $5,768,170
- Expenses 2025
- $5,986,432
Program services were 81.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- R02
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 60 WALTON STREET NW
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 · 2025
Mission
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the criminalization of poverty, and racial injustice.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Southern Center for Human Rights ("SCHR") is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the criminalization of poverty, and racial injustice. Over our forty-six year history, SCHR has forced county, state, and federal governments to make significant improvements in prisons and jails to reduce overcrowding, provide adequate medical and mental health care, and abate violence and abuse. We have argued and won five death penalty cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, four of which challenged profound race discrimination in capital trials. Our combined litigation and policy advocacy helped bring about the creation of a statewide public defender system in Georgia in 2003. Today, SCHR embraces multifaceted strategies in its fight for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the criminalization of poverty and racial injustices.
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SCHRs Impact Litigation Unit files civil suits to protect our communities against numerous injustices. This includes defending people who face severe criminal charges and receive harsh sentences; people who are incarcerated as a form of wealthbased detention; and people who suffer abuse and inhumane treatment in jails and prisons.
Expenses $1,493,893 · Revenue $655,419
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SCHRs Capital Litigation Unit provides direct representation to clients who are facing or who have received death sentences; consults with other capital defense teams and shares our expertise at trainings and conferences; and advocates for reforms to curtail the use of or abolish the death penalty.
Expenses $2,131,388
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SCHRs Public Policy Unit develops and advocates for legislation that reforms harshsentencing laws, provides alternatives to incarceration, abolishes the death penalty, strengthens the public defender system, and ends the criminalization of poverty. This unit works to engage and support local communities in advocating for needed criminal justice reforms.
Expenses $1,083,686
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SCHRs Reentry Program provides support to former SCHR clients who are returning home after being released from prison. SCHRs Client Services Advocate partners with these individuals to help remove obstacles towards housing, employment, healthcare, and social services as needed.
Expenses $153,083 · Revenue $39,652
As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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C Allen Garrett
Board Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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E Michelle Drake
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
James Kwak
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Melanie Velez
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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MICHELLE ARRINGTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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MAWULI DAVIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
STEPHANIE DAVIS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
-
RAJESH RAJ DE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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JOHN FLEMING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
VIVIANNE GUEVARA LMSW
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
MATTHEW HELLMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
PHYLLIS A JONES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
MARY C KENNEDY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
JARRED KLORFEIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
BEVERLY MARTIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
WHITNEY O'BYRNE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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MICHELE ROBERTS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
PHILIPPA SCARLETT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
CLIFF SLOAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
-
DAVID STERN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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DONALD B VERRILLI JR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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TANYA WASHINGTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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MARILYNN B WINN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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LAWRENCE J ZIMMERMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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ELIZABETH ZITRIN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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
-
2025
- Revenue
- $5,768,170
- Expenses
- $5,986,432
- Contributions
- $4,617,480
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,233,073
- Expenses
- $5,495,397
- Contributions
- $3,674,903
- Grants paid
- $69,966
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2022
- Revenue
- $5,933,800
- Expenses
- $5,710,884
- Contributions
- $4,003,705
- Grants paid
- $102,500
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
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2025 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,590,765
- Expenses
- $4,701,368
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,878,982
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $7,259,128
- Expenses
- $4,180,993
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,390,945
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.
Grants made
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$47,466
2023 Grant to support the Faith Leaders of Color Coalition.
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$40,000
2022 REGRANT FROM SAPELO FDN
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$40,000
2022 REGRANT FROM SAPELO FDN
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$22,500
2023 Grant to support work addressing solitary confinement practices in Georgia and supporting survivors of solitary confinement.
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$22,500
2022 UNLOCK THE BOX CAMPAIGN
Grants received
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2022 PUBLIC SERVICE
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2024 COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES
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$130,000
2022 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
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2022 FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE
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2024 CIVIL RIGHTS/SOCIAL ACTION/ADVOCACY
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$100,000
2024 General operating support
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$100,000
2024 CIVIL RIGHTS
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2022 To further support the mission of the Sponsored Program
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2023 COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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 13 October 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.