Hca Healthcare Foundation

Giving by year

All grants paid To Tennessee

How to apply

Contact

Hca Healthcare Foundation Attn Gran · Nashville · (615) 344-2390 · Corp.foundationsgifts@hcahealthcare.com

What to send

An application inquiry form is required as part of the intake process for any new agencies or any agencies who have gone 18 months without foundation funding. The applicant inquiry form is available on the foundation website. Following review of the applicant inquiry form, the foundation team will reach out to the agency with next steps. The foundation uses a formal application, which may be accessed online at www.hcacaring.org.

Deadlines

Grant deadlines are approximately 12 weeks prior to quarterly board meetings (posted on website).

Limits

The Middle Tennessee fund provides grants in the focus areas of health and well being, primary care, basic needs, education and the arts to organizations that have an established relationship with healthcare, a demonstrated commitment to maximizing available resources and a reputation for meeting objectives and delivering quality services with caring and compassion within a 9 county geography in Middle Tennessee. The foundation does not consider requests for: individuals or their projects, private foundations, political activities, advertising or sponsorships of events. As a matter of policy, the foundation does not ordinarily support: organizations in their first three years of operation; individual public, private or parochial schools; churches. The foundation will support 501(c)(3) faith-based initiatives consistent with its mission and guidelines.

As the foundation reported to the IRS for tax year 2024. Check its website or call before sending anything, because contacts and deadlines change.

Board and officers

• Sam HazenChairman
• Joanne Pulles See Stmt 17President
• John HackettTreasurer
• Eric NillesAssistant treasurer
• Natalie ClineSecretary
• Ronald Lee Grubbs JrAssistant secretary
• Jennifer BerresDirector
• Dr Michael CuffeDirector
• Susan Short JonesDirector
• Michael R McaleveyDirector
• Deborah M ReinerDirector
• Gabriel O Perez RodriguezDirector
• Kathleen M Whalen Thru 112024Director
• Mitch EdgeworthDirector

As listed in its 2024 IRS filing. Many foundations decide through their board, so a personal connection often matters more than a perfect application.

What it funds most often

1. Operational funding request (157 grants)
2. Program funding request (64 grants)
3. Scholarship (58 grants)
4. President approved (13 grants)
5. Capital funding request (11 grants)
6. Other-awards of distinction (3 grants)
7. Other-tocqueville matching (1 grant)

How big its Tennessee grants are

From its 2024 IRS filing. Small groups: look at how many grants sit in the bands you'd ask for.

Tennessee organizations it funded

Largest first. Past winners are good people to ask what the foundation looks for. Select a group to see who else funds it.

It also made 671 grants to individual people. We don't list their names.

Grants approved for future years

In its tax-year 2024 IRS Form 990-PF the foundation listed grants it had approved but not yet paid: 9 to Tennessee groups totaling $1.3 million, and 4 elsewhere. These are multi-year commitments, so they show what it has promised to keep funding. Some may have been paid since.

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