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89 foundations that funded “World”
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Private foundation · Incline Village, NV
Burger Family Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
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Private foundation · Naples, FL
Tepas Family Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $25,000 · typical grant $25,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
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Private foundation · Naples, FL
James & Nancy Heinz Family Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: St. Jude is leading the way the world understandings, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life theatening diseases.
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Private foundation · Los Angeles, CA
Feinberg Family Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,200 · typical grant $1,200 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
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Private foundation · Albany, OR
Cross Three Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $100 · typical grant $100 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Provide support to saint jude children's hospital to lead the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
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Private foundation · San Angelo, TX
James B and Lois R Archer Charitable Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $50,000 · typical grant $50,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Apr 29, Oct 31 · next Oct 31, 2026 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To transform the hearts of children and families in uganda and throughout the world through life-saving medical care, family preservation, and sharing the love of jesus christ
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Private foundation · Roanoke, MA
The Bailey Wildlife Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $70,000 · typical grant $70,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Conservation projects apply the tools knowledge gained from scientific research to solve real-life problems threatening the world's wildlife
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Private foundation · Birmingham, AL
The Lambert Family Foundation
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $30,500 · typical grant $1,000 to $28,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Establish christian clubs in schools; Support of the childrens hospital; Distribution of bibles throughout the world
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Private foundation · Brentwood
Dustin J Wells Foundation
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $6,125 · typical grant $125 to $6,000 (tax year 2025)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support the mission of training the homeless or incarcerated men in the culinary arts for employment; Support the mission of educating children of diverse racial and...
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Private foundation · Nashville
Dugas Family Foundation II Inc.
Takes applications
18 Tennessee grants totaling $592,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
78% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
5 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Transportation - new vehicle; Able youth track and field program; Expansion project; Recovery in community-arch academy for girls; Increase capacity to serve local needs and...
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Private foundation · North Oaks, MN
Foothills Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: St. Jude children's research hospital's purpose is to advance cures and means of prevention for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Their mission is...
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Spunk Fund Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $13,200 · typical grant $13,200 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Apr 1 · next Apr 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To support a second offering of journeys, the undergraduate course that will examine the metaphor of an individual journey and how that metaphor is understood culturally,...
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Private foundation · Union City
Robert E and Jenny D Kirkland Found
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40 Tennessee grants totaling $11.1 million · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Homes for Low Income; Christian Ministry; Outreach for disadvantaged youth; Family services; Provide daycare for at risk children
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Private foundation · Nashville
Nochera Fam Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $5,000 · typical grant $1,000 to $3,000 (tax year 2025)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: To preserve, enhance, and promote shelby park and bottoms, a nearly 1300 acre park, containing miles of trails, multiple playgrounds, facilities and historic structures for...
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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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Public charity · Goodlettsville
Dollar General Literacy Foundation
How to apply: not stated
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 · Memphis
Formanek Foundation
Takes applications
15 Tennessee grants totaling $5.5 million · typical grant $40,000 to $600,000 (tax year 2024)
27% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To promote the provision of visual art medium through diverse exhibits; To support the provision of health care for underinsured people; To improve Memphis by the revival of...
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Public charity · Nashville
Vultee Charitable Foundation
How to apply: not stated
13 Tennessee grants totaling $897,500 · typical grant $15,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2022)
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Private foundation · Asheville, WA
Social Impact Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Empower people, communities
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Private foundation · Memphis
Broadcasting for the Challenged Inc.
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $528,659 · typical grant $528,659 (1 grant) (tax year 2023)
Funded: Dissolution and termination
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.