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Tennessee · Public charity

Highlander Research & Education Center Inc

Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in appalachia and the south. We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny.

$11M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
142
Itemized grants FY2025
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Itemized, FY2025
$10M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,035,000
Total assets, FY2025
$38M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

PEOPLE'S ADVOCACY INSTITUTE$1,035,000
TAPROOT EARTH$540,000
THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY$470,000
THE SMILE TRUST INC$290,000
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE$290,000
AGITARTE INC$250,000
SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND$250,000
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA$250,000
PROJECT SOUTH$250,000
GRANTMAKERS FOR SOUTHERN PROGRESS$250,000
FREEDOM MAPPING LLC$244,412
GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP$240,000
COMMUNITY SUCCESS INITIATIVE INC$200,000
Individual grant recipient$168,640
RHOMBUS CONSULTING LLC$167,000

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About Highlander Research & Education Center Inc

How much does Highlander Research & Education Center Inc give?
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc reported 142 itemized grants totaling $10,288,119, out of $11,349,925 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
Where is Highlander Research & Education Center Inc based?
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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