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122 foundations that funded “Vanderbilt University Medical Center”
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Private foundation · Northbrook, IL
Three Lakes Foundation Trust
Invitation only
1 Tennessee grant totaling $616,320 · typical grant $616,320 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: B4PF2.0 Imaging Phase II
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Private foundation · Ann Arbor, MI
Cayman Biomedical Research Institute
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $60,000 · typical grant $60,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Research grant
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Private foundation · Chicago, IL
Colonel (il) James N Pritzker
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $175,000 · typical grant $175,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · West Hollywood, CA
Kardashian Jenner Family Foundation Inc.
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $36,611 · typical grant $36,611 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To provide support for charitable and educational activities consistent with the mission of the foundation.
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Private foundation · Duarte, CA
Prolacta Bioscience Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Jun 30, Aug 31, Dec 31 · next Dec 31, 2026 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: 43rd annual neonatology symposium - advances and controversies in neonatal medicine.
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Private foundation · Richmond, VA
Red Gates Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $2 million · typical grant $2 million (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
Ann M Duffer Family Foundation
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23 Tennessee grants totaling $455,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: North Carolina and Tennessee Hurricane Relief Efforts; Building Hope for Women & Children Campaign; Just Us program; Rheumatoid Arthritis Research; VUMC Pediatric rehabilitation program
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust
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6 Tennessee grants totaling $1.5 million · typical grant $163,405 to $330,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Expansion of pancreatlas connectivity platform and phenotyping of handel samples by cutting-edge single cell multiome technology; Defining molecular mechanisms of cell...
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Public charity · Arlington, VA
American Diabetes Association
How to apply: not stated
6 Tennessee grants totaling $784,889 · typical grant $73,652 to $199,337 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Innovative Research to Support the Psychological and Emotional Needs of People with Diabetes; Postdoctoral Fellowship; Innovative Clinical or Translational Science Nutrition;...
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Private foundation · Orlando, FL
Tch Ruth Mcbride Polk
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $56,238 · typical grant $5,624 to $19,683 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Orlando, FL
Tch Jural Couey Carter
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $9,200 · typical grant $3,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Rye Brook, NY
The G Harold & Leila Y Mathers
Takes applications
4 Tennessee grants totaling $785,553 · typical grant $223,682 to $252,199 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Research project
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Private foundation · Boston, MA
The Vingo Trust III
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $40,000 · typical grant $20,000 (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Redmond, WA
Child's Play
How to apply: not stated
2 Tennessee grants totaling $211,929 · typical grant $58,981 to $152,948 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Gift, grant - pediatric gaming technology specialist; Gift, grant - equipment
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Private foundation · Birmingham, AL
The Adele P Azar Charitable Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $7,500 · typical grant $7,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: General operating budget
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Private foundation · Petersburg, VA
Abraham S Ende Research Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $8,635 · typical grant $8,635 (1 grant) (tax year 2023)
Funded: Cancer research
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Community foundation · Chicago, IL
The Chicago Community Trust
Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
29 Tennessee grants totaling $32.5 million · typical grant $15,000 to $342,704 (tax year 2024)
55% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Charleston, SC
Coydog Foundation
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $2,000 · typical grant $1,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Public charity · Philadelphia, PA
Abim Foundation
How to apply: not stated
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
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Public charity · Houston, TX
Retina Research Foundation
How to apply: not stated
2 Tennessee grants totaling $90,000 · typical grant $45,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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.