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SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND

EIN 61-1274170 ATLANTA, GA

Revenue 2024
$3,390,105
Expenses 2024
$7,787,241

Program services were 76.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R260
Classification
1000
Street
1201 W PEACHTREE ST 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 · 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.

  • 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.

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.

  • AESHA RASHEED

    CO DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $92,395
    From this org
    $92,395
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,390,105
    Expenses
    $7,787,241
    Contributions
    $3,494,308
    Grants paid
    $3,409,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,541,274
    Expenses
    $4,179,349
    Contributions
    $2,539,495
    Grants paid
    $1,034,570
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,955,885
    Expenses
    $4,165,434
    Contributions
    $2,954,106
    Grants paid
    $1,021,320
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,143,433
    Expenses
    $3,244,725
    Contributions
    $2,963,479
    Grants paid
    $457,637
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,227,381
    Expenses
    $3,243,367
    Contributions
    $3,212,707
    Grants paid
    $457,137

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
    $19,409,986
    Expenses
    $8,823,302
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,155,900

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $20,090,446
    Expenses
    $8,817,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,155,985

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,428,874
    Expenses
    $5,118,759
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,762,380

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,396,375
    Expenses
    $4,994,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,757,881

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,757,740
    Expenses
    $3,146,029
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,365,861

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,541,507
    Expenses
    $2,294,462
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,635,381

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,400,956
    Expenses
    $1,574,583
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,622,758

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,404,500
    Expenses
    $775,521
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,647,849

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $731,075
    Expenses
    $788,976
    Assets (EOY)
    $957,662

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $984,340
    Expenses
    $535,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,057,616

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

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

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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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.