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5 foundations that funded “Stand Up”
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Windward Fund
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $510,000 · typical grant $90,000 to $220,000 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Environmental programs
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Surdna Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
5 Tennessee grants totaling $730,000 · typical grant $75,000 to $180,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
20 Tennessee grants totaling $5.3 million · typical grant $30,000 to $210,500 (tax year 2024)
55% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: General operating support and project support; Project support
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Private foundation · Nashville
Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation
Takes applications
48 Tennessee grants totaling $1.8 million · typical grant $5,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
39% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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United Way · Nashville
United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc.
How to apply: not stated
315 Tennessee grants totaling $17.4 million · typical grant $11,250 to $61,000 (tax year 2025)
20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Program opns (cif); Donor directed designations; Sub-recipient grants
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.