2025-02-18T06:18:48-08:00 2023-12-31 582361357 GREGG S BOSSEN CPA PC 50 LENOX POINT SUITE C ATLANTA GA 30324 990 2023-01-01 611274170 SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC SOUT 7703019464 561 WEST WHITEHALL ST SW ATLANTA GA 30310 LIONEL NEPTUNE Operations Director 2025-02-18 true true Gregg S Bossen P01444127 4048929513 2023 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X 561 WEST WHITEHALL ST SW ATLANTA GA 30310 2541274 false X southernersonnewground.org X 1998 GA 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. 6 6 22 450 0 2963479 2539495 0 1402 1179 178552 600 3143433 2541274 457637 1034570 0 1401789 1634454 0 118645 1385299 1510325 3244725 4179349 -101292 -1638075 25205973 23004351 159739 161192 25046234 22843159 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. false false 3227551 For the year ended December 31, 2023, SONG operated the following programs:(i) Local Campaign Training and Organizing: In 2023, 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 2023, leaders in local sites worked with regional staff to assess their recent organizing campaigns addressing the use of money bail and pretrial detention to better understand how those efforts had impacted local conditions and their own organizing skills. Additionally, SONG members worked to evolve organizing practices in the response to pandemic 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 2023, SONG continued to participate as a partner in multiple coalitions including Movement 4 Black Lives, the National Bail Out Collective, 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. The net assets with donor restrictions for Southern Power Fund (see Note 4) should be released in 2024.(iii) Regional Membership & Base-building: SONG maintains and builds a base of more than 43,000 Southern LGBTQ Black people, people of color, rural, working class, and immigrant people. In 2023, SONG continued our 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 had to continue virtually as our staff worked to support continued connection by using online meeting tools and old school technologies like phone calls. In continued response to the continuing Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing climate catastrophes, SONG offered a member support fund and distributed funds for emergency support to SONG members and other community members in need due to pandemic-driven economic crises and environmental emergencies.Through these programs in 2023, 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. 3227551 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false true false true false false false false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 5 0 true 22 true false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false X 6 6 false false false false false false false true false false false true true true false true true false false false GA X X ROBERTO TIJERINA 7703019464 561 WEST WHITEHALL ST SW ATLANTA GA 30310 X AESHA RASHEED CO DIRECTOR 40.00 0.00 77920 0 0 WENDI MOORE-O'NEAL CO DIRECTOR 40.00 0.00 77920 0 0 ROBERTO TIJERINA Chairman 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 SELMA ALAMIN Treasurer 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 HERMELINDA CORTES Secretary 2.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 KAREN MOSLEY Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 PAULINA HELM-HERNANDEZ Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 DJ HUDSON Director 2.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 155840 0 false false false 0 2539495 2539495 0 1179 1179 0 0 600 600 600 600 0 0 0 0 FEES INSURANCE PAYOUT MISCELLANEOUS 0 2541274 600 1179 X 0 1034570 1034570 0 0 155840 116880 15584 23376 0 1092615 796791 233598 62226 0 289802 212089 57842 19871 96197 70401 19200 6596 0 0 34534 34534 0 0 43 43 730097 511985 216360 1752 7314 5120 1828 366 0 0 0 249515 236186 13257 72 231302 128903 101302 1097 0 15908 14503 1383 22 0 0 22093 22093 21186 21186 SUPPLIES 64822 41446 22878 498 DUES AND SUBS 48790 25993 21648 1149 FOOD AND MEALS 47701 18920 28741 40 LICENSES 10501 1023 8303 1175 26519 12741 13416 362 4179349 3227551 833153 118645 16849294 18746978 0 7367193 3289640 365423 398405 0 0 0 0 33242 600 750935 185207 587821 565728 0 0 0 0 3000 3000 25205973 23004351 100748 21491 58991 139701 159739 161192 X 13277398 14695356 11768836 8147803 25046234 22843159 25205973 23004351 -1638075 -565000 X false true X false false X 3746247 12426356 3902661 3212707 2954106 26242077 0 0 0 0 3746247 12426356 3902661 3212707 2954106 26242077 1696170 1371816 2928120 2745144 3314145 12055395 0 1696170 1371816 2928120 2745144 3314145 12055395 14186682 566 1618 1430 1292 1179 6085 0 566 1618 1430 1292 1179 6085 0 10927 900 5895 13382 600 31704 3757740 12428874 3909986 3227381 2955885 26279866 0.53980 0.55790 0.00020 0.00020 X Support Schedule: Additional Supplemental Information LIST OF UNUSUAL GRANTS NOT INCLUDED IN LINE 1 FOR 2021:FORD FOUNDATION $6,500,000FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY $5,000,000MARGUERITE CASEY FOUNDATION $2,500,000CONRAD HILTON FOUNDATION $1,500,000 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 620000 83785 536215 51288 22087 29201 76107 75816 291 3540 3519 21 565728 CREDIT CARDS 21065 ESCROW ON BUILDING PURCHASE 50000 PAYROLL LIABILITIES 68635 Rounding 1 139701 2541231 2541231 43 43 2541274 4179306 4179306 43 43 4179349 false 0 0 AWARDS AND HONORIUMS 128 1034570 Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Appropriate board members review 990 before filing. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 18 PROVIDE PDF UPON REQUEST Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 ALL PRESENTED AT BOARD MEETINGS AND TO OTHERS UPON REQUEST. Amended Explanation Completion of audit resulted in some changes to the financials