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Highlander Research & Education Center Inc

Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in appalachia and the south.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
142
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 142 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 142 grants below total $10,288,119, the rows itemized in this filing. The $11,349,925 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,061,806 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k105 grants · $3.4M
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.9M
$40,000
Median grant
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States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02Its field
02the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2025–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2025 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 142 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEOPLE'S ADVOCACY INSTITUTE: $1,035,000 · OtherPEOPLE'S ADVOCACY INSTITUTETAPROOT EARTH: $540,000 · OtherTHE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY: $470,000 · Other+139 more: $8,243,119 · Other+139 more
Other$10,288,119

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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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