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138 foundations

Private foundation · Nashville
The Nancy & Victor S Johnson Jr Foundation Inc.

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81 Tennessee grants totaling $346,500 · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 5 Tennessee grants, such as Nashville Public Library Foundation

22% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Capital campaign; School of nursing; Canby robinson society
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)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 3 Tennessee grants, such as Memphis Library Foundation, Nashville Public Library Foundation

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
Private foundation · Dallas, TX
Texas Instruments Foundation

Takes applications

70 Tennessee grants totaling $151,310 · typical grant $200 to $1,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Friends of Knox Cnty Public Library, Friends of the Knox County Public Library

No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

37% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Donations to colleges, universities and other organizations under "matching gifts program."
United Way · Chattanooga
United Way of Greater Chattanooga

How to apply: not stated

69 Tennessee grants totaling $3.8 million · typical grant $21,689 to $64,542 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Ella Library

7% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Private foundation · Nashville
Msb Cockayne Fund Inc.

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63 Tennessee grants totaling $1.2 million · typical grant $1,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Nashville Public Library Foundation

2% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Private foundation · Ooltewah
Tucker Foundation

Takes applications

60 Tennessee grants totaling $4.3 million · typical grant $5,000 to $30,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 3 Tennessee grants, such as Friends of the Library Association Inc., Soddy Daisy Community Library - Kelcurt Foundation, Kelcurt Foundation Soddy Daisy Library

31% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Scholarship - evan moore; Scholarship fund; Relay for life; Pups4patriots Tennessee; General support - imagine arts education initiative
Private foundation · Houston, TX
Shell USA Company Foundation

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59 Tennessee grants totaling $480,847 · typical grant $400 to $2,400 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Friends of the Tellico Village Library Inc.

23% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: 1000; 500; 100; 50; 520
Private foundation · Nashville
The Annette and Irwin Eskind Family Foundation

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55 Tennessee grants totaling $246,450 · typical grant $250 to $2,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Nashville Public Library Foundation (nplf)

4% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Private foundation · Nashville
Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation

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53 Tennessee grants totaling $3.9 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 3 Tennessee grants, such as Nashville Public Library Foundation

8% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

3 grants for buildings or equipment

Funded: Capital campaign; Reimagining community spaces in mnps; Support for the mobile program and operations
Private foundation · Nashville
Horatio B & Willie J Buntin Foundation

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49 Tennessee grants totaling $258,891 · typical grant $500 to $2,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 3 Tennessee grants, such as Nashville Public Library Foundation

16% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: To further charitable activities
Private foundation · Monroe, MI
La-Z-Boy Foundation

Takes applications

45 Tennessee grants totaling $259,000 · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Clyde W Roddy Public Library

No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

40% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Public benefit; Education-libraries; Human services; Health care; Education-libraies
Private foundation · Nashville
Thomas & Mamie Houser Charitable Foundation

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44 Tennessee grants totaling $168,900 · typical grant $250 to $3,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 3 Tennessee grants, such as Nashville Public Library Foundation

18% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: To support charity; To support conservation; To support ministry; To support education; To support literacy
Private foundation · Nashville
The West End Home Foundation

Takes applications

44 Tennessee grants totaling $2.3 million · typical grant $17,500 to $70,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Nashville Public Library Foundation
Private foundation · Athens
Athens Federal Foundation

Takes applications

43 Tennessee grants totaling $314,160 · typical grant $3,010 to $8,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 7 Tennessee grants, such as Meigs-Decatur Friends of the Library, Polk County Friends of the Library, Eg Fisher Public Library

Stated deadlines: Jun 1 · next Jun 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

62% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

9 grants for buildings or equipment

Funded: Purchase books for Imagination Library program; Purchase of food for food pantry; Recruitment, screening and training for volunteer advocates; Funding to stock clothing and...
Private foundation · Chattanooga
Footprint Foundation Inc.

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42 Tennessee grants totaling $644,525 · typical grant $1,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Ella Library

32% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: The 'Notes in Nature' event in collaboration with reflection riding; African American Cemetery Fund; Sankofa Fund; Langston and Malcolm Carter Scholarship fund; Center for...
Private foundation · Nashville
The Fugitive Foundation

Takes applications

41 Tennessee grants totaling $237,950 · typical grant $1,000 to $7,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Nashville Public Library Foundation

20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Capital campaign & operating support
Private foundation · Soddy Daisy
Sharpe Family Foundation Inc.

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41 Tennessee grants totaling $454,696 · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Clyde W Roddy Public Library

44% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Program assistance; Program assist
Private foundation · Blountville
Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundation

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41 Tennessee grants totaling $171,696 · typical grant $750 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Bristol Public Library

44% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Private foundation · Knoxville
Jane I Pettway Foundation

Takes applications

40 Tennessee grants totaling $334,276 · typical grant $5,000 to $11,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 20 Tennessee grants, such as Luttrell Public Library, Maynardville Public Library, Friends of Knox County Library

Stated deadlines: Mar 31 · next Mar 31, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

15% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Financially needy women; Utility assistance for; Samaritan place; Jane pettway helping women; Certified nurse assistant
Public charity · Jackson
West TN Healthcare Foundation Inc.

How to apply: not stated

40 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7 million · typical grant $9,394 to $38,500 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (library): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Trenton Memorial Library

49% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

2 grants for buildings or equipment

Funded: $6,000.00 women who care grant; $5,000.00 for general support; $250.00 windows of hope sponsorship; $2,093.53 for repair of ac unit; $1,500.00 steak n burger sponsorship;...

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.