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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
The Norcliffe Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $650,500 · typical grant $500 to $500,000 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 2025 our wetlands matching challenge; Conservation legacy match challenge
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Wallace Foundation
Invitation only
3 Tennessee grants totaling $192,404 · typical grant $6,964 to $165,440 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To study the work of districts participating in Wallace's Principal Pipeline Learning Community.; To support a study of how principals learn on the job.; To support a...
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Private foundation · Hernando, MS
Maddox Foundation
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $55,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Long-term sustainability & viability; Support for quality legal education
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Benwood Foundation Inc.
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109 Tennessee grants totaling $7.7 million · typical grant $5,000 to $81,000 (tax year 2024)
37% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
5 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Periscope artist entrepreneur training; Creative entrepreneur training; Bessie smith legacy gala; Emma wheeler club & great futures; Capital support & general operating
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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
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Private foundation · Cleveland
Allan Jones Foundation
Takes applications
21 Tennessee grants totaling $72,741 · typical grant $300 to $4,000 (tax year 2024)
81% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Operating funds; Operating funds & memorials; Legacy fund; Swing for hope donation
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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...
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Private foundation · Menlo Park, CA
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $2.3 million · typical grant $25,000 to $300,000 (tax year 2024)
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gift of staff and board members; For supporting leaders and teachers in accelerating student learning; For legal technical assistance; For leaderstrust pilot planning...
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Private foundation · Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee District Foundation Inc.
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10 Tennessee grants totaling $29,416 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Key Club Scholarship; Annual Community Awards Grant; Key Leader North Scholarship; District Grant Operation Park Bench; Community Service Grant
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Private foundation · Kennesaw, GA
Beacon Foundation Charitable Trust
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6 Tennessee grants totaling $310,000 · typical grant $40,000 to $55,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Fund "imagine! Initiative" to help provide hamilton county, TN elementary students free art and cultural experiences presented by leading arts organizations and fund community...
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Private foundation · Pittsburgh, PA
Howmet Aerospace Foundation
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6 Tennessee grants totaling $225,080 · typical grant $15,000 to $59,600 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 2024 sons & daughters scholarship awards for 19 recipients; Project learn; Digital media studio; Hola4kids and the newly launched hola on the move stream program; Precision...
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Public charity · Beaverton, OR
Campaign for Great Public Schools
How to apply: not stated
5 Tennessee grants totaling $425,000 · typical grant $75,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To provide general support; To support its non-political and social welfare activities around community leadership development and training; To support general operating...
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Private foundation · Flint, MI
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $57,130 · typical grant $1,500 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: To support a statewide afterschool network to ensure the availability and expansion of school-linked quality afterschool and summer learning opportunities that meet the needs...
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Private foundation · Fayetteville
Creek Bed Foundation
Takes applications
4 Tennessee grants totaling $135,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational opportunity for afghan g; Facilitating opportunities for young; Legal expenses challenging gravel pi; Landscaping costs-centennial park
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Public charity · Washington, DC
National Environmental Education and Training Foundation
How to apply: not stated
4 Tennessee grants totaling $89,350 · typical grant $7,500 to $67,600 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Arconic greening stem grant; Community impact project; Dod legacy award
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Private foundation · Teton Village, WY
The Antonio V Glassberg Educational Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,500 · typical grant $3,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: May 1 · next May 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarships for the 2025/2026 school year issued in accordance with the irs approved procedures sent forth in irs letter to this foundation dated december 10, 2014.
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Private foundation · Mequon, WI
Nicholas Family Foundation Trust
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Annual campaign. Dedicated to providing the best care for patients and research that leads to cures.
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Private foundation · Naples, FL
J & J Family Foundation
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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: To educate girls and young women to think critically, lead confidently, and live honorably.
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Community foundation · Oakland, CA
East Bay Community Foundation
Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
3 Tennessee grants totaling $70,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Freedom2vote project, general support - the organizations initiative as currently led by for freedom2vote.; General support, kingdom builders
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Public charity · Memphis
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
How to apply: not stated
27 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $10,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
56% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Sponsorship; Sponsorship of new christian mobile dental clinic servicing the homeless; Annual lecture platinum sponsorship; Donation; support for bridge builders; Support...
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.