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50 foundations that funded “Dow”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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.