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594 foundations in Hamilton County
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Public charity · Goodlettsville
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
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81 Tennessee grants totaling $2.5 million · typical grant $8,000 to $18,000 (tax year 2025)
44% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: English as a second; Atoz family; Literacy support for; Bim family literacy; Literacy changes liv
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
80 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · typical grant $5,500 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
28% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
4 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Technology; Program related; Capacity building; Capital campaign
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Private foundation · Nashville
Ebs Foundation
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80 Tennessee grants totaling $343,400 · typical grant $500 to $2,500 (tax year 2025)
5% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Basking Ridge, NJ
Verizon Foundation
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76 Tennessee grants totaling $106,304 · typical grant $135 to $1,000 (tax year 2024)
45% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Other civic / community
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Private foundation · Cleveland
George R Johnson Family Foundation
Takes applications
72 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9 million · typical grant $10,000 to $30,000 (tax year 2025)
24% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
2 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Advocate training program; Children educational program; Art education; Unity center; Harbor safe house
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Private foundation · Knoxville
Lawson Family Foundation
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71 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
76% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Sponsorship; Membership - great egret society; Life prep academy; 100knoxville; Sponsorship of concert
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Private foundation · Dallas, TX
Texas Instruments Foundation
Takes applications
70 Tennessee grants totaling $151,310 · typical grant $200 to $1,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
37% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Donations to colleges, universities and other organizations under "matching gifts program."
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Tennessee Health Foundation Inc.
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69 Tennessee grants totaling $3.7 million · typical grant $2,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
69% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 2024 hickey match; 2024 anderson match; 2024 reynolds match; 2024 ryans match; 2024 pow scholar
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United Way · Chattanooga
United Way of Greater Chattanooga
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69 Tennessee grants totaling $3.8 million · typical grant $21,689 to $64,542 (tax year 2024)
7% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Radnor, PA
Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
65 Tennessee grants totaling $7,784 · typical grant $50 to $104 (tax year 2025)
57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gifts
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Public charity · Nashville
Tennessee Technology Development Corp
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64 Tennessee grants totaling $12.4 million · typical grant $100,000 to $300,000 (tax year 2024)
53% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Sbir; Sbir, intern stipend; Ttac; Network partners, survey stipend, intern stipend; Network partners, survey stipend
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Private foundation · Ooltewah
Tucker Foundation
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60 Tennessee grants totaling $4.3 million · typical grant $5,000 to $30,000 (tax year 2024)
31% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship - evan moore; Scholarship fund; Relay for life; Pups4patriots Tennessee; General support - imagine arts education initiative
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Private foundation · Houston, TX
Shell USA Company Foundation
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59 Tennessee grants totaling $480,847 · typical grant $400 to $2,400 (tax year 2024)
23% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 1000; 500; 100; 50; 520
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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57 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · typical grant $200 to $2,505 (tax year 2025)
32% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching contribution (general operating support); In support of creating economic mobility and career pathways
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Public charity · Abingdon, VA
Food City Charitable Foundation
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49 Tennessee grants totaling $1 million · typical grant $10,000 to $28,000 (tax year 2025)
61% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support the mission
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Hamico Inc.
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48 Tennessee grants totaling $1.8 million · typical grant $2,500 to $40,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation
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48 Tennessee grants totaling $171,417 · typical grant $1,500 to $4,500 (tax year 2024)
2% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Unrestricted grant
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Private foundation · Franklin
Richard Siegel Foundation
Takes applications
48 Tennessee grants totaling $198,830 · typical grant $2,500 to $5,210 (tax year 2025)
35% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship; Richard siegel foundation grant; Richard seigel foundation grant
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Public charity · Owasso, OK
Folds of Honor Foundation
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47 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7 million · typical grant $9,040 to $32,330 (tax year 2025)
85% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship
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Public charity · Nashville
Smile 180 Foundation
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47 Tennessee grants totaling $3.5 million · typical grant $21,541 to $75,000 (tax year 2024)
23% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
19 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Grant for dental clinic operations; Grant for dental clinic operations, capital improvements, and dental safety net payments; Grant for dental clinic operations and capital...
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.