Southern Echo is a progressive organization which advocates for better education, health care, and voter access in the South.
Financial Statistics
Total Assets
Total Revenue
Total Expenses Year Total Assets Total Revenue Total Expenses Filing 2019 $1,640,437 $1,087,217 $1,513,961 View 2018 $2,328,245 $1,073,976 $1,574,235 View 2017 $3,055,993 $1,262,884 $1,775,390 View 2016 $3,852,685 $731,267 $1,534,750 View 2015 $4,193,010 $784,350 $1,722,054 View
Prior year filings: 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011
Revenue Detail
Expenses Detail Employee Compensation Highest Earning Employees Employee Title Total Compensation Rachel Mayes Executive Director $82,125 Benita Wells Chief Financial Officer $45,454 Ashura Lewis Grant Writer $28,291
Grant Activity Grants Received
All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:
Total Grant Value: $21,922,622 Number of Grants: 161 Number of Funders: 38 Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:
Amount Year Funder Subject $660,000 2021 New Venture Fund CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY $600,000 2020 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta EDUCATION $585,000 2022 New Venture Fund CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY $525,000 2021 W.K. Kellogg Foundation enable the organization to achieve its mission of empowering low wealth communities throughout Mississippi and the Southern region with knowledge and skills by providing general operating support $400,000 2021 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta EDUCATION $235,000 2022 Wellspring Philanthropic Fund OPERATING SUPPORT $225,000 2020 Marguerite Casey Foundation FOR GENERAL SUPPORT. $200,000 2024 Orange County Community Foundation EDUCATION $200,000 2023 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta EDUCATION $200,000 2023 Wellspring Philanthropic Fund GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT $200,000 2021 Wellspring Philanthropic Fund OPERATING SUPPORT $200,000 2021 Orange County Community Foundation EDUCATION $200,000 2020 NEO Philanthropy Program Grant $200,000 2020 Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Operating support $150,000 2024 NEO Philanthropy Program Grant $150,000 2023 NEO Philanthropy Program Grant $150,000 2021 Marguerite Casey Foundation FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT. $120,000 2022 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta EDUCATION $109,000 2021 Civic Nation Covid-19 vaccine outreach $103,115 2023 New Venture Fund YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION $100,000 2022 NEO Philanthropy Program Grant $100,000 2021 NEO Philanthropy Program Grant $100,000 2020 New Venture Fund CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION, ADVOCACY $75,000 2022 THE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION To support work seeking to resist politically motivated attacks on Critical Race Theory in order to advance an honest, accurate, and fully funded public education for a justice-principled multiracial democracy. $75,000 2022 National Philanthropic Trust EDUCATION
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