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25 foundations that funded “Higher”
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Private foundation · Fishers, IN
Forum Credit Union Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Higher education scholarships
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Gail C@link Education Trust
Takes applications
8 Tennessee grants totaling $60,000 · typical grant $3,000 to $12,000 (tax year 2024)
38% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Student higher education scholarships
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Private foundation · Delano, MN
Hutter Family Foundation
Invitation only
1 Tennessee grant totaling $250 · typical grant $250 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Support higher education institution
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Private foundation · Palo Alto, CA
Mae Philanthropies
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $100,000 · typical grant $100,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Public education center of higher learning
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Public charity · Madison, WI
Ascendium Education Solutions Inc.
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $121,350 · typical grant $39,700 to $81,650 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Grant, Fast Track to Success? A Mixed Methods Study of Accelerated Course Formats Grant, Travel Grant - DREAM 2024 Conference; SPONSORSHIP - She Changes Everything Conference....
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Private foundation · Waverly
The@garney B Scott Jr Family Foundation Inc.
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7 Tennessee grants totaling $42,110 · typical grant $485 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
43% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To aid in helping the hungry, homeless, and hurting; To aid in religious education; To provide financial assistance for higher education; To provide financial assistance to...
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $857,743 · typical grant $857,743 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Youth and education- "bridgeup" "giddy up" grant:purpose: to offer under-resourced children a unique track to personal development, empowerment, academic excellence, and the...
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Public charity · Pittsburgh, PA
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Ask before applying · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
5 Tennessee grants totaling $186,340 · typical grant $24,507 to $32,500 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Children and youth healthcare; Primary and elementary schools; Professional societies and associations; Religious education; Higher education
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Community foundation · Portland, OR
The Oregon Community Foundation
Ask before applying · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
4 Tennessee grants totaling $65,768 · typical grant $10,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Civic Engagement; Physical Health; Environment; Higher Education
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Private foundation · Knoxville
Boyd Foundation
Takes applications
56 Tennessee grants totaling $9.3 million · typical grant $10,000 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: For annual budget.; To seek to build and admire meaningful arts and crafts expeeriences.; To preserve and enrich the diversity of art and culture in East Tennessee.; To...
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Private foundation · Houston, TX
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
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13 Tennessee grants totaling $4.7 million · typical grant $43,867 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support grantee's states leading recovery grant program.; To support bail system data collection and data democratization, with the overall goal of providing an accurate and...
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Private foundation · San Francisco, CA
Frankel Family Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Durham
Laughing Gull Foundation
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $160,000 · typical grant $35,000 to $80,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: TN prison college coalition; Southern hep collective
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Public charity · Atlanta, GA
The Fund for Theological Education Inc.
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7 Tennessee grants totaling $160,000 · typical grant $12,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Discernment lab grant
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Public charity · Oklahoma City, OK
The Oklahoma United Methodist Foundation
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $55,000 · typical grant $15,000 to $40,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Undergrad seminary scholarships; Prayer room ministry support
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Private foundation · Saint Louis, NV
Behannon Charitable Trust
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $75,812 · typical grant $75,812 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Menlo Park, CA
The Wollenberg Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Atlanta, GA
J William & Elizabeth S Robinson Foundation Inc.
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $17,500 · typical grant $2,500 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: For the promotion of educational development; Bishop watson scholarship fund
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Public charity · Nashville
Mercy Multiplied America Inc.
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7 Tennessee grants totaling $152,500 · typical grant $6,500 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Ministry support
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
Takes applications
6 Tennessee grants totaling $3.8 million · typical grant $500,000 to $950,000 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support capacity building and general operations; To support conservation, digitization, research, engagement, and planning related to the hooks brothers photography studio...
Source: each funder's latest e-filed IRS return. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which lists the grants they paid and how to apply. Community foundations, United Ways and other public charities file Form 990, and we use its Schedule I (grants over $5,000). We include every funder, wherever it is based, whose latest return lists grants to Tennessee groups. Corporate and community-foundation grant rounds are in the grant search.