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HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC

HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 281 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,004,080 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,485,328). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$25M
Revenue FY2024
281
Funders on record
$109M
Grants received
$26M
Net assets
138/281 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 80%

Against its field

HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve18.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)37% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($3.5M)2018 Revenue 149 ($4.1M) Expenses 98 ($3.0M) Net assets 132 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 383 ($10M) Expenses 243 ($7.4M) Net assets 221 ($7.8M)2020 Revenue 1151 ($31M) Expenses 320 ($9.7M) Net assets 836 ($30M)2021 Revenue 1260 ($34M) Expenses 680 ($21M) Net assets 1226 ($43M)2022 Revenue 1263 ($35M) Expenses 745 ($23M) Net assets 1226 ($43M)2023 Revenue 867 ($24M) Expenses 779 ($24M) Net assets 1222 ($43M)2024 Revenue 917 ($25M) Expenses 793 ($24M) Net assets 741 ($26M)
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Revenue (917)Expenses (793)Net assets (741)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$298k
17
$1.1M
18
$3.1M
19
$22M
20
$14M
21
$12M
22
$81k
23
$1.0M
24
19
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 89 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $19M.

57 of 281 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 281 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left

58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC.

10%
largest funder
23%
top three
~30
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 18% · 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 23% · 2022 13% · 2023 27%growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

36% of HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 39 states in all.

AK
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 281 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $210k on record.

Federal$210k
grants $210kcontracts $0
21
22
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$160k
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

21
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Fund for the Highlander Research And · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC?
HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 281 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,004,080 to it, the largest being Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ($10,485,328). 138 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 281 organizations giving $109,004,080 in grants to HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC, 138 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC?
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,485,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 281funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing