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21 foundations that funded “Entrepreneurs Foundation Ce”

Private foundation · Clinton
Hollingsworth Entrepreneurial Foundation

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9 Tennessee grants totaling $9,066 · typical grant $150 to $1,500 (tax year 2025)

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Boot camp grant to further business; Co starter grant to further business; Aid to individuals in need; Aid to ending pet homelessness; To aid in athletic programs
Community foundation · Mountain View, CA
Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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

22 Tennessee grants totaling $2.9 million · typical grant $25,000 to $105,000 (tax year 2024)

55% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Health; Education; Civic Participation; General Nonprofit Support; Environment
Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
The Papa John's Foundation Inc.

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11 Tennessee grants totaling $60,000 · typical grant $2,500 to $7,500 (tax year 2024)

40% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Foxwood Food Center; Shelter to Stability Program; Project Green Fork; Increasing Student Literacy Through Parent; Youth Empowerment Project Cabinets
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
Public charity · Baton Rouge, LA
Baton Rouge Area Foundation

How to apply: not stated

4 Tennessee grants totaling $134,550 · typical grant $20,000 to $53,550 (tax year 2024)

75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: To support the family safety center; General support, for the matthew and catherine saurage vanderbilt venture fund for entrepreneurship
Private foundation · Knoxville
Boyd Foundation

Takes applications

56 Tennessee grants totaling $9.3 million · typical grant $10,000 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)

No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: For annual budget.; To seek to build and admire meaningful arts and crafts expeeriences.; To preserve and enrich the diversity of art and culture in East Tennessee.; To...
Private foundation · Nashville
James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inc.

Takes applications

26 Tennessee grants totaling $2 million · typical grant $5,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

4 grants for buildings or equipment

Funded: Relief efforts in western north carolina and eastern Tennessee from hurricane helene; Recovery in community capital campaign; Capital fund support - new building; Fall bash -...
Private foundation · Minneapolis, MN
Wells Fargo Foundation

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8 Tennessee grants totaling $205,000 · typical grant $25,000 (tax year 2025)

50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Affordable Homeownership Program; Financial Empowerment: Finance Park Meets Stock Market Challenge; Project Return Opportunities for Employment; Community Land Trust _...
Private foundation · Ooltewah
Tucker Foundation

Takes applications

60 Tennessee grants totaling $4.3 million · typical grant $5,000 to $30,000 (tax year 2024)

31% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Scholarship - evan moore; Scholarship fund; Relay for life; Pups4patriots Tennessee; General support - imagine arts education initiative
Community foundation · Nashville
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.

How to apply: not stated

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: Delek us corporate support from Brentwood committee; For program enhancements and equipment to increase capacity, strengthen quality and promote compliance with licensing...
Private foundation · Knoxville
Lawson Family Foundation

Takes applications

71 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)

76% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Sponsorship; Membership - great egret society; Life prep academy; 100knoxville; Sponsorship of concert
Public charity · Brentwood
Lbmc Cares Foundation

How to apply: not stated

2 Tennessee grants totaling $35,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2025)

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Provide support for entreprenueurs; Provide support for recovery
Private foundation · Memphis
Belz Foundation

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30 Tennessee grants totaling $2.9 million · typical grant $2,000 to $158,500 (tax year 2025)

13% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Education; Health/welfare; Arts; Community; Religious
Private foundation · Nashville
Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation

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53 Tennessee grants totaling $3.9 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2025)

8% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

3 grants for buildings or equipment

Funded: Capital campaign; Reimagining community spaces in mnps; Support for the mobile program and operations
Private foundation · Palo Alto, CA
The Robert J and Helen H Glaser Family Foundation

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10 Tennessee grants totaling $32,138 · typical grant $2,500 to $4,000 (tax year 2024)

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

Funded: To provide support
Private foundation · Nashville
Tennessee Titans Foundation

Takes applications

124 Tennessee grants totaling $2.1 million · typical grant $1,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)

84% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Operating budget
Private foundation · Nashville
Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation

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33 Tennessee grants totaling $35,960 · typical grant $250 to $1,000 (tax year 2024)

33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Private foundation · Dearborn, MI
Ford Motor Company Fund

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12 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7 million · typical grant $50,000 to $200,000 (tax year 2025)

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

Funded: Ford community centers; Employee volunteering; Other services; Entreprenuership; Museums and cultural inst.
Public charity · Nashville
Tennessee Technology Development Corp

How to apply: not stated

64 Tennessee grants totaling $12.4 million · typical grant $100,000 to $300,000 (tax year 2024)

57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Sbir; Sbir, intern stipend; Ttac; Network partners, survey stipend, intern stipend; Network partners, survey stipend
Private foundation · Nashville
Jim and Leah Sohr Family Foundation

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8 Tennessee grants totaling $741,800 · typical grant $7,500 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)

38% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

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.