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72 foundations that funded “Center Education Reform”
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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
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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...
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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
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Private foundation · Los Altos, CA
The Heising-Simons Foundation
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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;...
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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
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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
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Warburg Pincus Foundation
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $3,157 · typical grant $157 to $3,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Boston, MA
The Chorus Inc.
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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
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Foundation for A Just Society
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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...
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Private foundation · San Francisco, CA
Stupski Foundation
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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.
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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Private foundation · Kalamazoo, MI
John E Fetzer Institute Inc.
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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
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Private foundation · Birmingham, AL
Better Place Foundation
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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
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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.
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
Raikes Foundation
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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
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Private foundation · Mclean, VA
Weissberg Foundation
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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
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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.