Supporters

The Institute for Southern Studies' vital work for a better South is made possible due to the generous support of individual contributors and dozens of philanthropic foundations.

If you would like to support the Institute's vision of a better South with a tax-deductible contribution, please visit here.

The Institute would like to thank the following foundations and funding networks for their financial support of $10,000 or more over the last 20 years to help us build a more just, democratic, and sustainable future in the South.

  • Amy P. Goldman Foundation
  • Arca Foundation
  • CarEth Foundation
  • Carnegie Corporation of New York
  • Civil Justice Foundation
  • Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
  • Compton Foundation
  • ConnectUS Network/Tides Foundation
  • Educational Foundation of America
  • Ford Foundation
  • Four Freedoms Fund/NEO Philanthropy
  • Fund for Constitutional Government
  • Fund for Investigative Journalism
  • Funding Exchange
  • Grantmakers for Southern Progress
  • Gulf Coast Fund of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
  • Hill-Snowdon Foundation
  • Jewish Funds for Justice
  • Kicking Assets Fund/Tides Foundation
  • Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
  • Mertz Gilmore Foundation
  • Nation Institute
  • New World Foundation
  • Open Society Foundations
  • Oxfam America
  • Peace Development Fund
  • Piper Fund
  • Public Welfare Foundation
  • Rappaport Family Fund
  • Sapelo Foundation
  • Skyline Public Works
  • Taku Fund/Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
  • Town Creek Foundation
  • Unitarian-Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock
  • Wellspring Advisors
  • Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation