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15 foundations that funded “Progress”

1. Private foundation · Lebanon

   Community Progress Committee Inc.

   Takes applications

   1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,390 · typical grant $5,390 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

   Funded: Ignite the vision campaign

2. Private foundation · Los Altos, CA

   The Heising-Simons Foundation

   Invitation only

   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;...

3. 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

4. Private foundation · Miami, FL

   Melvyn & Irene Greenstein Family Foundation Inc.

   Takes applications

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

   Funded only returning groups in its latest year

   Funded: To help further the progress of the organization's charitable and educational activities

5. 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)

6. Private foundation · Westlake Village, CA

   Conrad N Hilton Foundation

   Takes applications

   11 Tennessee grants totaling $262,360 · typical grant $1,000 to $1,650 (tax year 2024)

   Stated deadlines: Aug 29 · next Aug 29, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

   60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

   Funded: To support campus youth outreach; For prenatal-3 policy impact center to lead an early childhood development governance evaluation and advance evidence-based policy progress...

7. 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...

8. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

   The Kendeda Fund

   Invitation only

   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...

9. Private foundation · Bentonville, AR

   Walton Family Foundation Inc.

   Invitation only

   7 Tennessee grants totaling $10.4 million · typical grant $653,196 to $3 million (tax year 2024)

   17% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

   Funded: To provide subgrants to promising tutoring providers, researchers, and state departments of education to support successful implementation of high-impact tutoring in schools.;...

10. Private foundation · Memphis

    Formanek Foundation

    Takes applications

    15 Tennessee grants totaling $5.5 million · typical grant $40,000 to $600,000 (tax year 2024)

    27% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To promote the provision of visual art medium through diverse exhibits; To support the provision of health care for underinsured people; To improve Memphis by the revival of...

11. Private foundation · Sevierville

    Parc Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $3,400 · typical grant $400 to $3,000 (tax year 2025)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Support mission

12. Public charity · Vienna, VA

    Sourceamerica

    Ask before applying

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $85,416 · typical grant $13,500 to $54,916 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Ers, npa training vouchers; Cmmc grant; Ers, training, certification & compliance grant, regulatory compliance grant

13. Public charity · Nashville

    Action TN

    Ask before applying

    7 Tennessee grants totaling $682,000 · typical grant $37,500 to $152,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

14. Public charity · Nashville

    Tennessee Investor Fund

    Ask before applying

    6 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $29,500 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)

    33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Civic engagement; Electioneering; Civil engagement

15. Private foundation · Orlando, FL

    Thomas Garrott Foundation

    Invitation only

    39 Tennessee grants totaling $665,100 · typical grant $100 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)

    31% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it