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1,090 foundations that funded “University”

  1. Private foundation · Chapel Hill

    Green Coasts Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $8,646 · typical grant $8,646 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  2. Private foundation · Radnor, PA

    Parker Carson Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $15,000 · typical grant $15,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  3. Private foundation · Birmingham, AL

    Artie Ruth Reilly Scholarship Fund

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $37,000 · typical grant $37,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Feb 1, Apr 1 · next Feb 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarships

  4. Private foundation · Dallas, TX

    Benham Rjrj Benham Scholarships

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: May 1 · next May 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarships

  5. Private foundation · Paducah, KY

    Mgm Charitable Scholarship Tr

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $500 · typical grant $500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Educational scholarship for grace bakehouse

  6. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    Charles Timmons Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,500 · typical grant $3,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  7. Private foundation · Marietta, OH

    Ritton Family Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Avery hale

  8. Private foundation · Orlando, FL

    Shackelford Charitable Trust

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $173,475 · typical grant $173,475 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  9. Private foundation · Louisville, KY

    Wayne Daniel Graham and Nancy Price Graham

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $171,426 · typical grant $171,426 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  10. Private foundation · Saint Louis, NV

    T U W Donald Swackhamer Sch Ttee

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Mar 19 · next Mar 19, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarship

  11. Private foundation · Saint Louis, MO

    Beensen Julia B Charitable Tuw

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Apr 1 · next Apr 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship

  12. Private foundation · Chicago, IL

    George R Parker Trust Uw Xxxxx5008

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $366,000 · typical grant $366,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  13. Private foundation · St Paul, MN

    Sam I Kobata & Sons Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,000 · typical grant $4,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarships

  14. Private foundation · Pennington, NJ

    Keller Family Foundation

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $100,000 · typical grant $100,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Keller fund for theological

  15. Private foundation · Dallas, TX

    Ralph & Helen Kelley Fdn

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,500 · typical grant $5,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: May 1 · next May 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarships

  16. Private foundation · Saint Louis, MO

    Malcolm Wesley Myers and Anna Geary Myers Scholarship Fund

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,200 · typical grant $3,200 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Mar 28 · next Mar 28, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship

  17. Private foundation · Itasca, IL

    The Chapin Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $17,000 · typical grant $17,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To support the Heimark scholarship fund.

  18. Private foundation · Bonita Springs, FL

    Varhegyi Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $25,000 · typical grant $25,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Educational enrichment

  19. Private foundation · Brooklyn, TX

    Palmer Townsend Uw Palmer Sch

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $500 · typical grant $500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship

  20. Private foundation · Terre Haute, IN

    Wanda M Hart & Willis Edward Hart Memorial Scholarship Tr

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship

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.