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15 foundations that funded “Progress”
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Private foundation · Lebanon
Community Progress Committee Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,390 · typical grant $5,390 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded: Ignite the vision campaign
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Private foundation · Los Altos, CA
The Heising-Simons Foundation
Invitation only
5 Tennessee grants totaling $880,033 · typical grant $125,000 to $206,691 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: For grantmakers for southern progress; To implement phase two of the astrophysics postdoctoral launch program; To enhance mathematics learning in early childhood classrooms;...
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Arcus Foundation
Takes applications
4 Tennessee grants totaling $106,654 · typical grant $504 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: 2024 grantmakers for southern progress membership support
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Private foundation · Miami, FL
Melvyn & Irene Greenstein Family Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To help further the progress of the organization's charitable and educational activities
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
4 Tennessee grants totaling $180,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 2024-2025 grantmakers for southern progress annual membership; Directors cancer innovation fund (general fund)
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Private foundation · Westlake Village, CA
Conrad N Hilton Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $262,360 · typical grant $1,000 to $1,650 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Aug 29 · next Aug 29, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support campus youth outreach; For prenatal-3 policy impact center to lead an early childhood development governance evaluation and advance evidence-based policy progress...
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Foundation for A Just Society
Invitation only
4 Tennessee grants totaling $625,100 · typical grant $100,000 to $275,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To provide emergency support for hurricane helene relief work; To provide general operating support; To provide philanthropic advocacy support to grantmakers for southern...
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
The Kendeda Fund
Invitation only
4 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · typical grant $50,000 to $1 million (tax year 2023)
Funded: Operating Reserve Fund; For participation in Kendeda Fund's sustainability cohort; Grantmakers for Southern Progress for General Operating Support with a focus on the...
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Private foundation · Bentonville, AR
Walton Family Foundation Inc.
Invitation only
7 Tennessee grants totaling $10.4 million · typical grant $653,196 to $3 million (tax year 2024)
17% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To provide subgrants to promising tutoring providers, researchers, and state departments of education to support successful implementation of high-impact tutoring in schools.;...
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Private foundation · Memphis
Formanek Foundation
Takes applications
15 Tennessee grants totaling $5.5 million · typical grant $40,000 to $600,000 (tax year 2024)
27% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To promote the provision of visual art medium through diverse exhibits; To support the provision of health care for underinsured people; To improve Memphis by the revival of...
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Private foundation · Sevierville
Parc Foundation Inc.
Invitation only
2 Tennessee grants totaling $3,400 · typical grant $400 to $3,000 (tax year 2025)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support mission
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Public charity · Vienna, VA
Sourceamerica
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $85,416 · typical grant $13,500 to $54,916 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Ers, npa training vouchers; Cmmc grant; Ers, training, certification & compliance grant, regulatory compliance grant
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Public charity · Nashville
Action TN
How to apply: not stated
7 Tennessee grants totaling $682,000 · typical grant $37,500 to $152,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Nashville
Tennessee Investor Fund
How to apply: not stated
6 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $29,500 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Civic engagement; Electioneering; Civil engagement
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Private foundation · Orlando, FL
Thomas Garrott Foundation
Invitation only
39 Tennessee grants totaling $665,100 · typical grant $100 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
31% 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.