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9,572 foundations
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Private foundation · Omaha, NE
Ray C Mckinley Family Foundation Agency
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11 Tennessee grants totaling $27,000 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)
18% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Chickamauga, GA
The Daniel Ashley and Irene Houston Jewell Memorial Foundation
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11 Tennessee grants totaling $53,500 · typical grant $4,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
18% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Ih/m of jewell family women; Art, music and physical education programs; Scholarships
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Public charity · Memphis
Memphis Education Fund Inc.
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2 million · typical grant $31,250 to $400,000 (tax year 2025)
82% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational support
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Private foundation · Fort Worth, TX
Bnsf Railway Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $59,340 · typical grant $240 to $8,000 (tax year 2025)
29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gifts 1; Civic; Health & human services; United way/red cross; Youth
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Private foundation · Houston, TX
The Powell Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $53,750 · typical grant $500 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
45% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Designated Grant: General operating and support
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
The Hartley Foundation
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11 Tennessee grants totaling $28,500 · typical grant $1,000 to $3,000 (tax year 2025)
18% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Haiti fund; Raccoon Mountain trail fund
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Private foundation · Atlanta, GA
Addo Foundation Inc.
Takes applications · Mostly scholarships for individuals
11 Tennessee grants totaling $4,250 · typical grant $250 to $500 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Jan 30, Feb 27 · next Jan 30, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded: Education support
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Private foundation · Henderson, NC
Dale and Clarice Wolf Foundation
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11 Tennessee grants totaling $55,000 · typical grant $5,000 (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support organizational goals; Furthering goals of organization; Further goals of institute; Further expand organizations goals; Exonerate Innocent Victims
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Private foundation · Battle Creek, MI
Wk Kellogg Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $17,500 to $175,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
10% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching Grant; Health and Health Equity; Promise of an Equitable Future; Trustee Mini Grant; Jobs and Family Economic Security
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Private foundation · Orlando, FL
Tch Paul Holbrook
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11 Tennessee grants totaling $58,205 · typical grant $1,617 to $6,467 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Mutual of America Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $103,460 · typical grant $50 to $1,200 (tax year 2025)
89% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
Christoval Foundation
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11 Tennessee grants totaling $104,600 · typical grant $2,500 to $12,600 (tax year 2024)
27% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Business scholarship fund
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Aarp
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $144,583 · typical grant $8,500 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)
91% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Community Challenge Grant to support AARP's Livable Communities initiative; Sponsorship of event; Sponsorship of the free rides to the polls on election day event; "Sponsorship...
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Public charity · Minneapolis, MN
Educational Credit Management Corporation
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $15,199 to $120,000 (tax year 2024)
82% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Fafsa student support; Project success, fafsa student support
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
The Papa John's Foundation Inc.
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11 Tennessee grants totaling $60,000 · typical grant $2,500 to $7,500 (tax year 2024)
40% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Foxwood Food Center; Shelter to Stability Program; Project Green Fork; Increasing Student Literacy Through Parent; Youth Empowerment Project Cabinets
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Private foundation · San Diego, CA
Sempra Foundation
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11 Tennessee grants totaling $27,442 · typical grant $83 to $1,680 (tax year 2024)
36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: International; Education; Health; Medical research; Animals
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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 · Irving, TX
Celanese Foundation
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $13,298 · typical grant $26 to $500 (tax year 2024)
55% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Chicago, IL
National Association of Realtors
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $483,163 · typical grant $8,503 to $68,867 (tax year 2024)
36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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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...
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.