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63 foundations that funded “Black”

  1. Community foundation · Rapid City, SD

    Black Hills Area Community Foundation

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $22,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $12,000 (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Faith based; Youth

  2. Public charity · Maryville

    Blackberry Farm Foundation

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $125,252 · typical grant $18,000 to $30,000 (tax year 2025)

    60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  3. Private foundation · Stow, MA

    Blackey Family Foundation Inc.

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $590 · typical grant $590 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  4. Private foundation · Hanover Township, PA

    The Blackhorse Foundation

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    4 Tennessee grants totaling $7,750 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,500 (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  5. Private foundation · New Port Richey, FL

    Gary Blackwell Charitable

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

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Research and care

  6. Private foundation · Mcdonough, GA

    The Blackburn & Copeland Family Foundation

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $580 · typical grant $580 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  7. Public charity · Charleston Sc, SC

    The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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

    45 Tennessee grants totaling $1.4 million · typical grant $6,300 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)

    36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  8. Private foundation · Armonk, NY

    Page & William Black Foundation

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

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  9. Private foundation · Pawleys Island, SC

    The Andy Quattlebaum and Blackwell

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $63,710 · typical grant $2,000 to $61,710 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Funding

  10. Private foundation · Palm Beach, FL

    Louise B Blackman Family Foundation Dated March 24 1998

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $8,000 · typical grant $8,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2023)

  11. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    Sj & Lb Foundation Inc.

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $7,850 · typical grant $2,850 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: GPS Black Alumnae Council Endowed Scholarship Fund; String Theory Fund

  12. Private foundation · St Augusitne, FL

    Historic St Augustine Research Institute Inc.

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $7,000 · typical grant $7,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Research on spain's black corsairs operating out of st. Augustine & havana during the war of jenkinsear (1739-48).

  13. Private foundation · San Francisco, CA

    Hopelab Foundation Inc.

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $50,000 · typical grant $50,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: The purpose of the Grant is to support their translational science project around Black youth mental health andwellbeing

  14. Private foundation · San Francisco, CA

    The Foothills Foundation

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $70,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To support the klamath basin initiative.; To support the blackhawk ducks unlimited event.

  15. Private foundation · Chattanooga

    Riverview Foundation Inc.

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    8 Tennessee grants totaling $352,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $75,000 (tax year 2024)

    75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    2 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Rockmont park parking lot improvements; Nickajack trailhead driveway construction project; From where i stand: the black experieince in country music; Trail building equipment...

  16. Public charity · Oakland, CA

    Solidaire Network Inc.

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $455,000 · typical grant $40,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Movement support of Community Defense of East Tennessee.; Movement support of People's Advocacy Institute; General support of Black Mycelium Project; General support of...

  17. Private foundation · Chattanooga

    Benwood Foundation Inc.

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    109 Tennessee grants totaling $7.7 million · typical grant $5,000 to $81,000 (tax year 2024)

    37% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    5 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Periscope artist entrepreneur training; Creative entrepreneur training; Bessie smith legacy gala; Emma wheeler club & great futures; Capital support & general operating

  18. Private foundation · Memphis

    Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation

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    16 Tennessee grants totaling $159,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)

    6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Undesignated general operating support - inspiring and empowering young creatives through the transformative power of the arts; Undesignated general operating support -...

  19. Public charity · Washington, DC

    National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

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    9 Tennessee grants totaling $22.6 million · typical grant $79,804 to $189,305 (tax year 2024)

    11% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Advancing soil health in Tennessee; Restoring cumberland plateau grasslands & savannas; Restoring abandoned and legacy mine lands; Coastal habitat restoration; Remove fish...

  20. Community foundation · Nashville

    The Community Foundation of Middle

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    1,155 Tennessee grants totaling $69.8 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)

    46% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    55 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: 2024 support; To provide 1st time support for your important mission; General giving; Delek us corporate support from Brentwood committee; For program enhancements and...

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.