Tennessee foundations
Private foundations rarely post open calls. Instead, look at who they already fund. Search by what you do, like “food pantry”, “library” or “youth sports”, to find foundations that funded similar work in Tennessee.
708 foundations
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Foundation · Dickson
Jackson Foundation Inc.
Invitation only
10 Tennessee grants totaling $2.7M · typical grant $10K–$10K (tax year 2024)
Funded: to further exempt purpose
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Foundation · Memphis
Speer Charitable Trust
Invitation only
43 Tennessee grants totaling $2.5M · typical grant $5,000–$50K (tax year 2023)
Funded: program related
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Foundation · Brentwood
Care Foundation of America Inc.
Invitation only
7 Tennessee grants totaling $2.5M · typical grant $302K–$420K (tax year 2024)
Funded: to further exempt purpose
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Foundation · Nashville
Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation
Invitation only
282 Tennessee grants totaling $2.4M · typical grant $1,500–$5,000 (tax year 2024)
5 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: annual gift; annual fund; annual giving; alexis de tocqueville society; arch academy
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Foundation · Knoxville
Lawson Family Foundation
Takes applications
71 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2M · typical grant $5,000–$25K (tax year 2024)
Funded: sponsorship; membership - great egret society; life prep academy; 100knoxville; sponsorship of concert
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Foundation · Nashville
N & P Foundation
Invitation only
2 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2M · typical grant $290K–$1.9M (tax year 2024)
Funded: funds for discretionary use
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Foundation · Memphis
Dobbs Foundation
Invitation only
5 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2M · typical grant $10K–$450K (tax year 2025)
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Foundation · Chattanooga
Kennedy Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
9 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2M · typical grant $25K–$100K (tax year 2025)
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: to support a public charity; to provide funding for a professorship; to fund a new building for the nursing school
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Foundation · Knoxville
Elgin Foundation
Invitation only
1 Tennessee grant totaling $2.1M · typical grant $2.1M–$2.1M (tax year 2024)
Funded: grant for faith based organization in counties served
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Foundation · Memphis
Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc.
Takes applications
41 Tennessee grants totaling $2.1M · typical grant $5,000–$25K (tax year 2024)
Funded: religion; educational; human service; health, general; program support
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Foundation · Nashville
Tennessee Titans Foundation
Takes applications
124 Tennessee grants totaling $2.1M · typical grant $1,000–$5,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded: operating budget
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Foundation · Nashville
James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
26 Tennessee grants totaling $2M · typical grant $5,000–$50K (tax year 2024)
4 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: relief efforts in western north carolina and eastern tennessee from hurricane helene; recovery in community capital campaign; capital fund support - new building; fall bash -...
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Foundation · Nashville
Mccauley Lindsay Charities of Tennessee Inc.
Takes applications
26 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9M · typical grant $39K–$115K (tax year 2024)
4 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: lighting, parking lot, food equip, c; hungry program; robertson co land purch & matching s; forklift, scale, fan; water heater, food warmer, cart
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Foundation · Memphis
The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation
Takes applications
52 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9M · typical grant $10K–$25K (tax year 2024)
Funded: general - operating
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Foundation · Nashville
Enchiridion Foundation
Invitation only
82 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9M · typical grant $5,000–$10K (tax year 2025)
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: general support for operations; for youth camp; general support for renovation project
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Foundation · Union City
Promethean Foundation
Invitation only
13 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9M · typical grant $40K–$217K (tax year 2025)
Funded: qualifying daycare scholarships; qualifying daycare scholarship; qualifying day care scholarship
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Foundation · Cleveland
George R Johnson Family Foundation
Takes applications
72 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9M · typical grant $10K–$30K (tax year 2025)
2 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: program support; advocate training program; children educational program; art education; unity center
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Foundation · Chattanooga
Hamico Inc.
Invitation only
48 Tennessee grants totaling $1.8M · typical grant $2,500–$40K (tax year 2024)
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Foundation · Nashville
Sandra Schatten Foundation
Invitation only
35 Tennessee grants totaling $1.8M · typical grant $5,000–$30K (tax year 2024)
Funded: to fulfill the exempt purposes of the foundation
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Foundation · Nashville
Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation
Takes applications
48 Tennessee grants totaling $1.8M · typical grant $5,000–$50K (tax year 2024)
Source: each foundation's latest IRS Form 990-PF (grants it paid and how it takes applications). Only Tennessee-based private foundations are included. Corporate and community-foundation programs are in the grant search.