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16 foundations that funded “Clothing”
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Public charity · Nashville
Nashville Rescue Mission
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $2 million · typical grant $5,375 to $2 million (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Provide clothing / supplies; Provide food /supplies; Provide hygiene supplies
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Private foundation · Edina, MT
James & Wanda Hollensteiner Foundation
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $10,000 · typical grant $250 to $1,000 (tax year 2025)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Providing food/clothing for homeless; Day home for children; Conn through live/interactive music; Pediatric medical research
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Public charity · Crossville
Threads of Hope Thrift Store Inc.
How to apply: not stated
4 Tennessee grants totaling $141,037 · typical grant $141,037 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To provide clothing for families in need; Benefit Organization
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Public charity · Old Hickory
Soles4souls Inc.
How to apply: not stated
8 Tennessee grants totaling $377,463 · typical grant $23,499 to $51,505 (tax year 2024)
88% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Free distribution of shoes and clothing
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Private foundation · Knoxville
Carolyn M Cate Foundation Inc.
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $3,400 · typical grant $1,700 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Providing physical and spiritual support by offering food clothing etc.; Helping underprivileged women become self-sufficient
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Private foundation · Ballston Lake, NY
Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc.
How to apply: not stated
2 Tennessee grants totaling $4,000 · typical grant $1,000 to $3,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To create sustainable jobs & provide relief by distributing shoes & clothing around the world.; To advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases...
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Private foundation · Athens
Athens Federal Foundation
Takes applications
43 Tennessee grants totaling $314,160 · typical grant $3,010 to $8,000 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Jun 1 · next Jun 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
62% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
9 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Purchase books for Imagination Library program; Purchase of food for food pantry; Recruitment, screening and training for volunteer advocates; Funding to stock clothing and...
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Private foundation · Nashville
Rollins Family Foundation
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $7,800 · typical grant $500 to $1,000 (tax year 2025)
60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Donation for church purposes; Assist education expenses for needy individuals; For the needy for food& clothing; Hallie scruggs memorialscholarship fund
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
Robert F Stone Foundation Aka
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115 Tennessee grants totaling $3.8 million · typical grant $1,500 to $40,000 (tax year 2024)
36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
7 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Charitable Event; BSF Music Fund; BSF Local Music Fund; MAC CARES Center; To support Betterfi expansion into the Chattanooga/Hamilton County Market
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
Robinson Foundation
Takes applications
16 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Foster Child Bag of Love fund; For 3 Christmas gifts per club member, a new coat for each club member, educational supplies, field trips, youth of the year program; 8 x 8 shed...
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Private foundation · Kennesaw, GA
Beacon Foundation Charitable Trust
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6 Tennessee grants totaling $310,000 · typical grant $40,000 to $55,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Fund "imagine! Initiative" to help provide hamilton county, TN elementary students free art and cultural experiences presented by leading arts organizations and fund community...
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Public charity · Knoxville
Fort Sanders Foundation
How to apply: not stated
6 Tennessee grants totaling $2 million · typical grant $26,674 to $371,048 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
2 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: To help provide equipment, staff and patient education, rehabilitation programs and cardiopulmonary programs, CVA, brain injury and amputee support groups. Also helps provide...
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United Way · Murfreesboro
United Way of Rutherford County
How to apply: not stated
47 Tennessee grants totaling $694,125 · typical grant $2,500 to $21,500 (tax year 2024)
72% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support for pregnant women; Ann campbell early learning center; Project learn and triple play program; Child abuse, community ed and drug endangered children programs; Rent and...
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Public charity · Knoxville
Variety of Eastern Tennessee
How to apply: not stated
27 Tennessee grants totaling $212,000 · typical grant $3,000 to $8,500 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Funding to support to train and retain volunteer advocates.; Funds will be used for supplies, food, rental fees, background checks supporting 12 new volunteer advocates....
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Private foundation · Villanova, PA
The Counihan Family Foundation
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23 Tennessee grants totaling $950,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)
4% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support regular operations; To provide quality programs and services to impact the lives of children, adolescents, and seniors throughout Middle Tennessee; To provide a...
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Private foundation · Memphis
Emmanuel House Manna
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $18,283 · typical grant $18,283 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To feed, clothe, medicate, and support indigent people
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.