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89 foundations that funded “Building”

Private foundation · Cincinnati, OH
Building Healthy Lives Foundation

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3 Tennessee grants totaling $450 · typical grant $100 to $250 (tax year 2025)

67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Private foundation · Fremont, CA
Building Futures Foundation

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1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,000 · typical grant $3,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

Funded: Donation to support educational fund
Private foundation · Thayer, CO
Buildings for Babies Inc.

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1 Tennessee grant totaling $6,000 · typical grant $6,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Public support
Public charity · Atlanta, GA
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc.

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10 Tennessee grants totaling $104,540 · typical grant $9,000 to $11,000 (tax year 2024)

56% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: GOTV/Voter Registration; Divine 9 Voter Mobilization
Private foundation · Dyersburg
Carmer Charitable Tr

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1 Tennessee grant totaling $219,654 · typical grant $219,654 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building
Private foundation · Orlando, FL
Truist Foundation Inc.

Takes applications

26 Tennessee grants totaling $715,970 · typical grant $10,000 to $31,000 (tax year 2024)

No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

13 grants for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building career pathways to; Thriving communities; Strengthening small; Presidential honors; Special programs
Community foundation · Asheville, NC
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc.

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10 Tennessee grants totaling $418,474 · typical grant $10,000 to $75,000 (tax year 2024)

60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Building community & economic vitality; Promoting quality health; Religion; Assisting people in need
Private foundation · Nashville
Still Waters 232 Foundation Inc.

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6 Tennessee grants totaling $12,000 · typical grant $2,000 (tax year 2025)

33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Building community; Fostering education; Supporting health; Honoring service
Private foundation · Huntington Beach, CA
Dahlgren Family Foundation Inc.

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3 Tennessee grants totaling $127,224 · typical grant $15,000 to $62,224 (tax year 2025)

33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building fund and Lafayette exhibit
Private foundation · Chicago, IL
Pritzker Family Foundation

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3 Tennessee grants totaling $1.4 million · typical grant $200,000 to $1 million (tax year 2024)

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building awareness and education on importance of early childhood development; Research and education on early childhood education; Research and education on family economic stability
Public charity · Philadelphia, PA
Abim Foundation

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2 Tennessee grants totaling $60,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $40,000 (tax year 2024)

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building trust - discover, decipher, demonstrate; Vivid health connect - clinical training
Private foundation · Tucson, AZ
Shirley Foundation Inc.

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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

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building and Facility Repairs
Private foundation · Tacoma, WA
Gary E Milgard Family Foundation - Mark

Takes applications

1 Tennessee grant totaling $100,000 · typical grant $100,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building the bulls
Private foundation · Knoxville
Finding Joy in the Journey Foundation Inc.

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1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building fund
Community foundation · Colorado Springs, CO
Christian Community Foundation Inc.

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

48 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2 million · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

38% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Building fund support; "general support; Athletic fund support
Private foundation · Nashville
Joe C Davis Foundation

Takes applications

106 Tennessee grants totaling $6 million · typical grant $10,000 to $55,000 (tax year 2024)

12% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

7 grants for buildings or equipment

Funded: Capacity building & operating support; Capital support; Operating & capacity building support; Capacity building support; Operating support & capacity building
Private foundation · Chattanooga
Maclellan Foundation Inc.

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91 Tennessee grants totaling $5 million · typical grant $1,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

40% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

10 grants for buildings or equipment

Funded: For building organizational capacity.; For outreach to families.; For education of youth and children.; For outreach to the indigent.; For holistic community outreach and development.
Public charity · Nashville
Greater Nashville Association of Realtors Inc.

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3 Tennessee grants totaling $80,061 · typical grant $5,000 to $69,061 (tax year 2025)

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Home building
Private foundation · Ada, MI
Jerry & Marcia Tubergen Foundation

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3 Tennessee grants totaling $185,240 · typical grant $10,000 to $160,240 (tax year 2024)

67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Campaign - building
Public charity · Washington, DC
YWCA USA Inc.

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2 Tennessee grants totaling $67,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $47,000 (tax year 2024)

50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Capacity building, emergency grant; Techgyrls program implementation, emergency grant

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.