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838 foundations that funded “University Foundation”

  1. Private foundation · Mexico, MO

    Griffin Family Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship

  2. Private foundation · Pittsburgh, PA

    Tippins Foundation

    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: Education

  3. Private foundation · Kent, OH

    Davey Company Foundation

    Takes applications

    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: Arboricultural grants

  4. Private foundation · Greensboro, NC

    Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Jun 1 · next Jun 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship

  5. Private foundation · Woodside, CA

    Valhalla Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $500,000 · typical grant $500,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Prenatal-to-3 policy impact center, an early childhood research and policy initiative

  6. Private foundation · Canton, GA

    Leitalift Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,250 · typical grant $1,250 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Educational funds for students

  7. Private foundation · Wethersfield, CT

    O'meara Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,500 · typical grant $2,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Student scholarship awards

  8. Private foundation · Westminster, MD

    Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $7,500 · typical grant $7,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Agricultural scholarship

  9. Private foundation · Melbourne, FL

    L3harris Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

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

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  10. Private foundation · Batavia, IL

    Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,000 · typical grant $4,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Mar 1 · next Mar 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarships

  11. Private foundation · Chicago, IL

    Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

    Takes applications

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

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Disability Meets Architecture

  12. Private foundation · Los Angeles, CA

    Everest Edwin Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $42,500 · typical grant $42,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  13. Private foundation · Artesia, NM

    Chase Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $6,250 · typical grant $6,250 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Apr 25 · next Apr 25, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarship

  14. Private foundation · Houston, TX

    Macdonald-Peterson Foundation

    Invitation only

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

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  15. Private foundation · Atlanta, GA

    Trailsend Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $25,000 · typical grant $25,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  16. Private foundation · Vero Beach, FL

    The Vandeventer Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $30,000 · typical grant $30,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Support for wellness center

  17. Private foundation · Brentwood

    Powell Foundation

    Takes applications

    41 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7 million · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    30% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    4 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Scholarship; Building fund; Hutchins legacy fund; UT genomics graduate student; Jennifer powell scholarship

  18. Private foundation · Memphis

    Mcdonnell Family Foundation

    Invitation only

    22 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $25,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Program Services

  19. Private foundation · New York, NY

    The Simons Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $393,251 · typical grant $8,400 (tax year 2024)

    86% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Cognitive computational neuroscience (ccn) 2024 conference; Robust, reliable, and provably stable spectral element methods for nonlinear advection dominated problems; Discrete...

  20. Public charity · Columbia, MO

    Midway USA Foundation Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $272,693 · typical grant $9,344 to $27,049 (tax year 2024)

    38% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To fund youth shoothing sports

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.