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SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER

EIN 52-1436778 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

Revenue 2024
$58,167,590
Expenses 2024
$50,454,619

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
120 GARRETT ST STE 400

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).

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.

  • DJ GERKEN

    PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $385,302
    From this org
    $321,468
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $63,834
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $321,468
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $29,353
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,481
    Filer's total
    $385,302

  • LAURA D GATES

    CHAIR OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    11

  • C GREY MCLEAN

    VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JOEL B ADAMS JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • MARCIA A ANGLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DELL S BROOKE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • CATHY S BROWN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • WENDY B BROWN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

  • ANNE DAVIS

    TRUSTEE (UNTIL 11/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MELVIN T DAVIS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • J STEPHEN DOCKERY III

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • LAURA B FJELD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • MELANIE P GRINNEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JAMES G HANES III

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CLAY HAYNES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • PHYLLIS DK HILDRETH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DONALD A HOLZWORTH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DEBORAH H KENNEDY KENNARD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ALLEN M MCCALLIE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • EDWARD M MILLER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DEADERICK C MONTAGUE

    TRUSTEE (UNTIL 11/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JEAN C NELSON

    TRUSTEE (UNTIL 11/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CHARLES W PATRICK JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JULIE G PRICE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • B CLAYTON ROLADER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    7

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 — 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
    $58,167,590
    Expenses
    $50,454,619
    Contributions
    $49,880,755
    Grants paid
    $86,416
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $62,847,748
    Expenses
    $43,104,630
    Contributions
    $57,046,360
    Grants paid
    $265,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $53,489,044
    Expenses
    $40,519,983
    Contributions
    $45,327,569
    Grants paid
    $340,500

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

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 10 September 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.