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5 foundations that funded “Advocacy Action Fund Inc”
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Sixteen Thirty Fund
How to apply: not stated
4 Tennessee grants totaling $580,000 · typical grant $100,000 to $350,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Environmental programs; Civil rights, social action, advocacy
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Public charity · Washington, DC
American Public Transportation
How to apply: not stated
2 Tennessee grants totaling $25,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Sponsorship; Grassroots advocacy
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Ford Foundation
Takes applications
14 Tennessee grants totaling $1.2 million · typical grant $375 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)
57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gift; Core support for an exhibition by tabitha arnold on the history of workers rights and labor struggles in Chattanooga; Core support for peoples advocacy...
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Public charity · San Francisco, CA
Jewish Community Federation of San
Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
4 Tennessee grants totaling $393,700 · typical grant $15,000 to $351,500 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Religion; Philanthropy/voluntarism/grantmaking; Civil rights/social action/advocacy; Education
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Public charity · Washington, DC
New Venture Fund
How to apply: not stated
16 Tennessee grants totaling $2 million · typical grant $20,000 to $250,000 (tax year 2024)
69% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Arts, culture, and humanities; Civil rights, social action, advocacy; Environmental programs; Youth development and education; Technology and innovation
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.