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6,478 foundations that funded “Foundation”
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Private foundation · Frankenmuth, MI
Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation
Takes applications
4 Tennessee grants totaling $11,500 · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Community support
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Foundation for A Just Society
Invitation only
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...
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Private foundation · San Angelo, TX
Foundation for Truth
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $295,700 · typical grant $46,000 to $125,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
2 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Financial assistance for capital and operating expenses for the cherith hostel; Financial assistance with the capital expenses for the morning star hostel children's home in...
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Public charity · Hazard, KY
Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc.
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $257,600 · typical grant $25,000 to $201,600 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To further the exempt of purpose of the organization
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Public charity · Sevierville
Foundation for the Sevier County Library System
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $62,601 · typical grant $5,732 to $39,575 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Program materials and expenses; Tile wall; Rm furnishings building
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $67,500 · typical grant $33,750 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Respite care for individuals waiting to transition to residential care who are at high risk for overdose
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $882,890 · typical grant $434,038 to $448,852 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Research
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Private foundation · Palm Beach, FL
Charles R Schwab Foundation for Financial Freedom
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $150,000 · typical grant $150,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Funding for individuals enrolled in tcat Nashville
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Private foundation · Wenatchee, WA
Foundation of Caring Fund
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $200,000 · typical grant $200,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Charitable operations
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Neil S Hirsch Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $75,000 · typical grant $75,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Vero Beach, FL
Foundation 3311 Inc.
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $20,000 · typical grant $20,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Scholarships
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Private foundation · Marietta, GA
Foundation for A Better World Inc.
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $120,000 · typical grant $120,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Program expenses
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Private foundation · Sherwood, OR
Foundation IV
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,000 · typical grant $3,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Dissolution of assets
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Private foundation · Los Angeles, CA
The Muffy Ohlmeyer Family Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $20,000 · typical grant $20,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Foundation goal
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Foundation to Promote Open Society
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $750,000 · typical grant $750,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To provide general support
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Public charity · Charlotte, NC
Foundation for the Carolinas
Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
29 Tennessee grants totaling $2.8 million · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
55% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Charitable gift
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
Amazonsmile Foundation
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7,033 Tennessee grants totaling $3.5 million · typical grant $27 to $147 (tax year 2023)
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Community foundation · Memphis
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc.
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417 Tennessee grants totaling $107.9 million · typical grant $12,000 to $153,077 (tax year 2024)
29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Nashville
Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation
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282 Tennessee grants totaling $2.4 million · typical grant $1,500 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
5 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Annual gift.; Annual giving.; Alexis de tocqueville society.; Arch academy.; Annual giving fund.
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Public charity · Knoxville
East Tennessee Foundation
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250 Tennessee grants totaling $12.3 million · typical grant $10,000 to $38,500 (tax year 2024)
62% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Human services; Disaster relief; Arts & culture; Education; Youth development
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.