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110 foundations that funded “Southern”

  1. Private foundation · Atlanta, GA

    Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation Inc.

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    8 Tennessee grants totaling $239,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Signature; Social justice; Community enrichment

  2. Public charity · Chattanooga

    Southern Health Plan Inc.

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $36,649 · typical grant $5,600 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  3. Public charity · Durham, NC

    Southern Coalition for Social Justice

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    4 Tennessee grants totaling $40,000 · typical grant $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Solve spark grant

  4. Public charity · Atlanta, GA

    Southern Partners Fund Inc.

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    3 Tennessee grants totaling $75,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $45,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Social,Economic & Environm Justice

  5. Public charity · Durham, NC

    Southern Vision Alliance

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $30,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Qmf grant - southern intermediaries project; Frontline funds solidarity grant

  6. Private foundation · Orlando, FL

    Southern Fruit Distributors Fund Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,500 · typical grant $1,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Contributionto generaloperating fund

  7. Private foundation · Mount Olive, NC

    Southern Bank Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $7,500 · typical grant $7,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Public Benefit

  8. Public charity · Burbank, CA

    Public Media Group of Southern California

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $100,000 · typical grant $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Funding for civic engagement project

  9. Private foundation · Bryantown, MD

    Wicomico Valley Foundation of Southern Maryland Inc.

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  10. Community foundation · Tucson, AZ

    Community Foundation for Southern Arizona

    Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $61,455 · typical grant $20,000 to $41,455 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  11. Private foundation · Los Altos, CA

    The Heising-Simons Foundation

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $880,033 · typical grant $125,000 to $206,691 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: For grantmakers for southern progress; To implement phase two of the astrophysics postdoctoral launch program; To enhance mathematics learning in early childhood classrooms;...

  12. Private foundation · New York, NY

    The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $180,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: 2024-2025 grantmakers for southern progress annual membership; Directors cancer innovation fund (general fund)

  13. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Arcus Foundation

    Takes applications

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $106,654 · typical grant $504 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: 2024 grantmakers for southern progress membership support

  14. 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

  15. Private foundation · San Francisco, CA

    Stupski Foundation

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $110,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support the Appalachian Rekindling Project.; To support the Southern Power Fund.

  16. Public charity · Atlanta, GA

    South Arts Inc.

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    19 Tennessee grants totaling $343,478 · typical grant $5,250 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)

    58% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: In These Mountains - Cargill 3rd Grant; FY25 SA/NEA Regional Engagement / Arts in Community; FY24 SA/NEA Regional Engagement / Arts in Community; FY25 NEA ArtsHERE; Southern...

  17. Public charity · Minneapolis, MN

    Borealis Philanthropy

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    6 Tennessee grants totaling $926,400 · typical grant $50,000 to $220,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support the work of fiscal projects; To support the work of decarcerate Memphis; To support the work of Nashville community bail fund; To support the work of my sistah's...

  18. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    Kodiak Cares Foundation

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    4 Tennessee grants totaling $120,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $75,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area; Texas Gulf Coast Initiative (GCI); Southern Prairies & Playas Initiative; Texas Gulf Coast Initiative

  19. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Foundation for A Just Society

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    4 Tennessee grants totaling $625,100 · typical grant $100,000 to $275,000 (tax year 2024)

    33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To provide emergency support for hurricane helene relief work; To provide general operating support; To provide philanthropic advocacy support to grantmakers for southern...

  20. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    The Kendeda Fund

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    4 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · typical grant $50,000 to $1 million (tax year 2023)

    Funded: Operating Reserve Fund; For participation in Kendeda Fund's sustainability cohort; Grantmakers for Southern Progress for General Operating Support with a focus on the...

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.