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1,638 foundations that funded “Charitable”

  1. Private foundation · Bloomfield Hills, MI

    Cousineau Family Charity

    How to apply: not stated

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $100 · typical grant $100 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Cash donation to enrich the lives of others

  2. Public charity · Nashville

    Tennessee Lions Charities Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $0 (tax year 2024)

  3. Private foundation · Baton Rouge, LA

    Crapanzano Foundation Nonprofit Corporation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,102 · typical grant $5,102 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  4. Private foundation · Enfield, CT

    Golden Fleece Foundation Charity

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $25,000 · typical grant $25,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2023)

    Funded: Find cures for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases through research and treatment

  5. Private foundation · Orlando, FL

    Driver Taf Charity

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $106,419 · typical grant $106,419 (1 grant) (tax year 2023)

  6. Private foundation · Knoxville

    Roger B & Evelyn W Paddison Charitable Foundation

    Takes applications

    20 Tennessee grants totaling $157,000 · typical grant $4,000 to $12,000 (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Jan 31 · next Jan 31, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Mobile meals; Educational; Funding the roger b & evelyn w paddison scholarship

  7. Private foundation · Chattanooga

    The Lonnie and Kitty Strickland Charitable Foundation

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    19 Tennessee grants totaling $185,685 · typical grant $2,500 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)

    42% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  8. Private foundation · Loudon

    Gerald W and Mary Ann Phillips Family Charitable Foundation

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    17 Tennessee grants totaling $49,374 · typical grant $100 to $2,000 (tax year 2025)

    71% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Family & children services; Veterans support; Cemetary upkeep; Helping adults with special needs; Historical organization

  9. Private foundation · Louisville, KY

    Gayla S Harris & Kenneth M Bielak Charitable Tr

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    12 Tennessee grants totaling $87,500 · typical grant $3,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  10. Private foundation · Louisville, KY

    Robert W and Elise B Lykins Charitable

    Takes applications

    11 Tennessee grants totaling $32,790 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)

    9% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support the programming, production and education outreach; To provide protection, maintenance and improvement of radnor lake; To support the conservation of Tennessee's...

  11. Private foundation · Boynton Beach, FL

    Nat R & Martha M Knaster Charitable Trust

    Takes applications

    8 Tennessee grants totaling $85,500 · typical grant $5,000 to $17,000 (tax year 2024)

    14% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Unrestricted $10,000now campaign beta pi chapter $2,500; College fund for haslam business school at university of Tennessee; Haslam facility expense fund for new business...

  12. Private foundation · New York, NY

    The Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust

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    6 Tennessee grants totaling $1.5 million · typical grant $163,405 to $330,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Expansion of pancreatlas connectivity platform and phenotyping of handel samples by cutting-edge single cell multiome technology; Defining molecular mechanisms of cell...

  13. Private foundation · Birmingham, AL

    Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Tr 05242007

    IRS revoked its tax-exempt status · Invitation only

    5 Tennessee grants totaling $11,600 · typical grant $500 (tax year 2025)

    20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Support organization's mission; Support charitable organization's mi; Support organizations mission

  14. Private foundation · Murfreesboro

    John W and Barbara A Dant Charitable Foundation Inc.

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    4 Tennessee grants totaling $22,750 · typical grant $5,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Provide fundsfor variousprograms; Provide fundsfor various programs

  15. Private foundation · Nashville

    Irene M & Ralph C Zalkan Charitable Foundation

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    3 Tennessee grants totaling $20,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Community projects

  16. Private foundation · Wichita Falls, TX

    The Boyd and Joan Kelley Charitable Foundation

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    3 Tennessee grants totaling $23,000 · typical grant $3,000 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  17. Public charity · Alexandria, VA

    National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $120,000 · typical grant $30,000 to $45,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To provide financial assistance with healthcare to uninsured and underinsured

  18. Private foundation · Jonesboro, AR

    The Jim Tom and Connie Belle Butler Charitable Foundation Inc.

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $10,500 · typical grant $5,000 to $5,500 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Honoriam; Community social services

  19. Private foundation · Chattanooga

    The Red Bank and Soddy-Daisy Charitable Foundation Inc.

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $42,000 · typical grant $21,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To assist in the installation of a mural project located at kid's corner off redding road (or) a large-scale mural project located at morrison springs across from food city on...

  20. Private foundation · Memphis

    Audrey E and Michael T Grehl Charitable Trust

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $14,600 · typical grant $6,000 to $8,600 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Community service

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.