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12 foundations that funded “Pledge”

  1. Public charity · Bluffton, SC

    Pledge the Pink Foundation

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $22,750 · typical grant $10,000 to $12,750 (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Breast cancer research

  2. Public charity · San Francisco, CA

    Pledgeling Foundation

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

    17 Tennessee grants totaling $1.4 million · typical grant $10,839 to $37,190 (tax year 2024)

    41% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  3. Private foundation · Naples, FL

    Deangelis Diamond Foundation Inc.

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,500 · typical grant $3,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Pledge

  4. Private foundation · Dallas, TX

    Raymond George and Ruth Bitner Fisher Found

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $50,000 · typical grant $50,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Pledges for naming medicine

  5. Private foundation · Flint, MI

    The Isabel Foundation

    Takes applications

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $120,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Feb 1 · next Feb 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: 2024-2026 pledge - general operating; Capital work; Matching grant for general operating expenses

  6. Private foundation · Los Angeles, CA

    The Harry and Estelle Soicher Foundation

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $50,000 · typical grant $50,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Second installment of a five year pledge to construct a new clinical center

  7. Private foundation · Alpharetta, GA

    Ryder System Charitable Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $100,800 · typical grant $1,800 to $80,000 (tax year 2025)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Supports scholarships for students; Ryder pledge payment 5 of 5 for ryder endowed supply chain professorship and ryder nexxus scholarships.; Supply chain forum basic...

  8. Private foundation · Knoxville

    Haslam Family Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    32 Tennessee grants totaling $7.9 million · typical grant $20,000 to $324,000 (tax year 2024)

    45% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Community grant - boldpath program; 2024 & 2025 evergreen ball; 2024 jazz baby!; Payment on verbal pledge & two table sponsorships; School of music gala

  9. Private foundation · Nashville

    Conway - Welch Family Foundation

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    7 Tennessee grants totaling $614,000 · typical grant $4,000 to $225,000 (tax year 2024)

    83% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Nurse career scholarship fund; Serve women in crisis; Simulation lab for nursing school; Scholarship pledge

  10. Private foundation · Memphis

    Lichterman-Loewenberg Foundation

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    36 Tennessee grants totaling $276,800 · typical grant $2,500 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    26% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: For annual support; For annual grant; Unrestricted: for any program with the loewenberg college of nursing; For respite care and personal support for families; For teen job hub

  11. Public charity · Memphis

    Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc.

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    28 Tennessee grants totaling $274,667 · typical grant $2,500 to $12,500 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Silver Sponsor for Mental Health Breakfast Nov. 12, 2024; SE Gala S23-24; SE 23 Memphis TN Market Support; Year 2025 Sponsorship Support Package; 2024 BCMS Scholarship Event...

  12. Private foundation · Knoxville

    Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc.

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    91 Tennessee grants totaling $835,534 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

    20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    3 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: General donation; Hope gala; Knoxville go red for women luncheon + kids cook with heart program; Annual golf tournament; 2025 - niswonger radiothon sponsorship

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.