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9,572 foundations

  1. Private foundation · Brentwood

    Barbara J Mapp Foundation

    Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $135,697 · typical grant $500 to $15,582 (tax year 2024)

    6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  2. Private foundation · Huntingdon

    The Jones Hertiage Foundation Inc.

    IRS revoked its tax-exempt status · Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $10,000 to $37,131 (tax year 2024)

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Religious purposes; Helping people believe, belong, trust, and come to be who god called them to be; To nurture survivor healing and strategically combat human trafficking in...

  3. Private foundation · Memphis

    Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation

    Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $159,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)

    6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Undesignated general operating support - inspiring and empowering young creatives through the transformative power of the arts; Undesignated general operating support -...

  4. Private foundation · Memphis

    Reginald Wurzburg Foundation

    Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $49,150 · typical grant $500 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

    6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  5. Private foundation · Chattanooga

    Lillian L Colby Charitable Foundation

    Takes applications

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $400,000 · typical grant $15,000 to $30,000 (tax year 2025)

    56% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  6. Private foundation · Huntingdon

    Wright Charitable Trust

    Takes applications

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $155,431 · typical grant $5,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2025)

    12% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    2 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Arts Focus; Support and prevent child abuse; To meet the educational needs; Shooting Range; To build a children's playground

  7. Private foundation · Huntingdon

    Fullerstrong Outdoors Inc.

    Invitation only · Mostly scholarships for individuals

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $7,689 · typical grant $250 to $651 (tax year 2025)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship; Donation for auction; Donation for greyson; Donation hunt for sam; Magi boxes donation

  8. Private foundation · Westmoreland

    Mary Elizabeth Roark Scholarship Fund Tr

    Invitation only · Mostly scholarships for individuals

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $12,500 · typical grant $500 to $1,000 (tax year 2025)

    Funded: Scholarship

  9. Private foundation · Nashville

    American Paper & Twine Company Charitable Trust

    Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $262,000 · typical grant $2,500 to $25,000 (tax year 2025)

    6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  10. Private foundation · Cleveland

    Mark E Smith Foundation Ua Dated 11-9-22

    Takes applications

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $154,486 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,490 (tax year 2025)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Various athletic program donations; Football program; General operating expenses and scholastics program; Sponsorship and a/v student program; Women's basketball program

  11. Private foundation · Boca Raton, FL

    Raymond Zimmerman Family Foundation

    Invitation only · Mostly scholarships for individuals

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $193,462 · typical grant $100 to $7,336 (tax year 2025)

  12. Private foundation · Atlanta, GA

    Cs Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $4.2 million · typical grant $75,000 to $450,000 (tax year 2025)

    6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  13. Public charity · Franklin

    Tennessee Charitable Care Network

    How to apply: not stated

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $305,504 · typical grant $10,050 to $25,990 (tax year 2025)

    6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To improve health care services offered to low-income, underserved tennesseans.

  14. Public charity · Braintree, MA

    Good Sports Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $224,477 · typical grant $8,982 to $19,340 (tax year 2025)

    69% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Increase accessibility of youth sports programs to children in need.

  15. Private foundation · Morristown

    Jolley Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $104,293 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: High school football program; Feeding the hungry; Hamblen co good scout award; Classroom expenses; Appreciation gifts of meal vouchers

  16. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    Robinson Foundation

    Takes applications

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Foster Child Bag of Love fund; For 3 Christmas gifts per club member, a new coat for each club member, educational supplies, field trips, youth of the year program; 8 x 8 shed...

  17. 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...

  18. Private foundation · Tomahawk, WI

    Two Eagles Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $676,000 · typical grant $35,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Tuition assistance

  19. Public charity · Atlanta, GA

    Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $3.5 million · typical grant $133,000 to $308,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: For general scholarship support.; For nursing scholarships.; For nursing and allied health scholarships.; For general and nursing scholarships.

  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.