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72 foundations that funded “Center Education Reform”

  1. Private foundation · Chattanooga

    Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation

    Takes applications

    48 Tennessee grants totaling $171,417 · typical grant $1,500 to $4,500 (tax year 2024)

    2% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Unrestricted grant

  2. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    The Kendeda Fund

    Invitation only

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · typical grant $50,000 to $1 million (tax year 2023)

    Funded: Operating Reserve Fund; For participation in Kendeda Fund's sustainability cohort; Grantmakers for Southern Progress for General Operating Support with a focus on the...

  3. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Surdna Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    5 Tennessee grants totaling $730,000 · typical grant $75,000 to $180,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  4. Private foundation · Los Altos, CA

    The Heising-Simons Foundation

    Invitation only

    5 Tennessee grants totaling $880,033 · typical grant $125,000 to $206,691 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: For grantmakers for southern progress; To implement phase two of the astrophysics postdoctoral launch program; To enhance mathematics learning in early childhood classrooms;...

  5. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Prospect Hill Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $3,400 · typical grant $1,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  6. Private foundation · Los Altos, CA

    The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

    Takes applications

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $310,500 · typical grant $13,000 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Just Societies; Environment and Science; Families and Communities

  7. Private foundation · New York, NY

    The Warburg Pincus Foundation

    Invitation only

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $3,157 · typical grant $157 to $3,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  8. Private foundation · Boston, MA

    The Chorus Inc.

    Invitation only

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $1.2 million · typical grant $270,000 to $970,000 (tax year 2023)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: General operations & program/project support

  9. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Foundation for A Just Society

    Invitation only

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $625,100 · typical grant $100,000 to $275,000 (tax year 2024)

    33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To provide emergency support for hurricane helene relief work; To provide general operating support; To provide philanthropic advocacy support to grantmakers for southern...

  10. Private foundation · San Francisco, CA

    Stupski Foundation

    Invitation only

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $110,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support the Appalachian Rekindling Project.; To support the Southern Power Fund.

  11. 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

  12. Public charity · San Francisco, CA

    Rsf Social Finance Inc.

    Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $56,250 · typical grant $12,500 to $23,750 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  13. Private foundation · New York, NY

    The Ford Foundation

    Takes applications

    14 Tennessee grants totaling $1.2 million · typical grant $375 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)

    57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Matching gift; Core support for an exhibition by tabitha arnold on the history of workers rights and labor struggles in Chattanooga; Core support for peoples advocacy...

  14. Public charity · New York, NY

    Neo Philanthropy Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    6 Tennessee grants totaling $342,000 · typical grant $12,000 to $35,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Program Grant

  15. Private foundation · Kalamazoo, MI

    John E Fetzer Institute Inc.

    Invitation only

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $230,500 · typical grant $10,000 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)

    25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: In support of the 2025 womanists at the inkwell retreat; In support of a symposium and book on the sacred and de-enimization

  16. Private foundation · Birmingham, AL

    Better Place Foundation

    Invitation only

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $94,000 · typical grant $7,500 to $64,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Social assistance; Educational; Health support

  17. Community foundation · New York, NY

    The New York Community Trust

    How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply

    44 Tennessee grants totaling $1.4 million · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    41% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: For program support.; For a scholarship award.

  18. Private foundation · Seattle, WA

    Raikes Foundation

    Invitation only

    6 Tennessee grants totaling $19,862 · typical grant $1,034 to $5,166 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  19. Private foundation · Mclean, VA

    Weissberg Foundation

    Invitation only

    8 Tennessee grants totaling $560,000 · typical grant $50,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Capacity support

  20. Private foundation · New York, NY

    The Henry Luce Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    7 Tennessee grants totaling $511,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Support for curriculum development; Support for convenings, collaboration stipends, and training; Support for curriculum development, trainings, and convening; Support for...

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.