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50 foundations that funded “Dow”

  1. Private foundation · Midland, MI

    Dow Company Foundation

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    4 Tennessee grants totaling $32,000 · typical grant $3,000 to $24,000 (tax year 2024)

    25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Community wellbeing

  2. Public charity · Cordova

    Dow Endowment Fund Inc.

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    3 Tennessee grants totaling $90,764 · typical grant $25,764 to $35,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Pediatric intensive; Childlife foundation; Ped ward

  3. Private foundation · New Orleans, LA

    Downman Family Foundation

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $6,785 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,785 (tax year 2025)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Unrestricted donation

  4. Private foundation · Pittsburgh, PA

    Downs J A for Winchester Unit Soc-Tr

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $6,000 · typical grant $6,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarships

  5. Private foundation · Norwalk, OH

    Price-Downey-Buckland

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,000 · typical grant $3,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  6. Private foundation · Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

    The Downes Family Foundation

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,000 · typical grant $3,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  7. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,850 · typical grant $5,850 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  8. Public charity · Knoxville

    Knoxville Cbid Management Corporation Dba Downtown Knoxville Alliance

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    7 Tennessee grants totaling $70,000 · typical grant $9,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    43% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Economic development to benefit downtown Knoxville; Market square farmer's market

  9. Private foundation · Orlando, FL

    Tuw C Reid Dowland Residuary

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $14,834 · typical grant $5,000 to $9,834 (tax year 2025)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  10. Private foundation · Chicago, IL

    Mary Lou Downs Foundation

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $14,000 · typical grant $14,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Exclusively charitable

  11. Private foundation · Haslett, MI

    Joseph H Hill Memorial Foundation Inc.

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2022)

    Funded: Hill donationto wind down itsoperations

  12. Public charity · Nashville

    The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc.

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $48,500 · typical grant $20,000 to $28,500 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To help equip children and their families with skills necessary to achieve success; To spread love and awareness for the wonderful people living with down syndrome

  13. Public charity · Memphis

    Memphis Center City Development Corporation

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    16 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $30,000 to $60,000 (tax year 2024)

    94% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Storefront grants; Tenant improvement grant; Good neighbor grant; Special grant incentive; Pre development assistance grant

  14. Private foundation · Crump

    Pete H and Mildred F Brown Foundation

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    7 Tennessee grants totaling $50,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)

    29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Medical Research; Christmas for disadvantaged; Child Abuse Counseling; Assistance to disabled; Assistance to cancer patients

  15. Private foundation · Chattanooga

    Lyndhurst Foundation Inc.

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    118 Tennessee grants totaling $6.7 million · typical grant $3,239 to $70,000 (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Mar 31, Jun 30, Sep 30, Dec 31 · next Dec 31, 2026 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    49% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    11 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: To match LH Associates contributions; LH Associates matching program; General Operations 2024; "My Thriving Garden" Project; Health Services and Improved Database Capacity

  16. Private foundation · Cookeville

    Owen Foundation

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    18 Tennessee grants totaling $342,930 · typical grant $1,500 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded: Support church activities; Support a child's right to a safe and permanent home; Support pregnancy crisis; Support grieving children, teens,and adults through peer support;...

  17. Private foundation · Nashville

    The Frist Foundation

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    128 Tennessee grants totaling $32.2 million · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    42% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    15 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: General support directed by lauren elcan ingram; Operating support for 2024; General support directed by julie and tommy frist; General support directed by jennifer and billy...

  18. Public charity · Nashville

    Nashville Predators Foundation

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    58 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $6,553 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    71% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    10 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Fy24-25 donation, general purposes; Fy24-25 hfc donation: donation for pediatric rehabilitation project + general purposes; Funding for thrive studios, which empowers children...

  19. Private foundation · Nashville

    Mccauley Lindsay Charities of Tennessee Inc.

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    26 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9 million · typical grant $39,293 to $115,000 (tax year 2024)

    58% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    4 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Lighting, parking lot, food equip, c; Hungry program; Robertson co land purch & matching s; Forklift, scale, fan; Water heater, food warmer, cart

  20. Private foundation · Houston, TX

    Laura and John Arnold Foundation

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    13 Tennessee grants totaling $4.7 million · typical grant $43,867 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)

    25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support grantee's states leading recovery grant program.; To support bail system data collection and data democratization, with the overall goal of providing an accurate 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.