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45 foundations that funded “United Way of Middle Inc”

  1. United Way · Nashville

    United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc.

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    315 Tennessee grants totaling $17.4M · typical grant $11K–$61K (tax year 2025)

    20% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: program opns (cif); donor directed designations; sub-recipient grants

  2. Private foundation · Lakeland, FL

    Publix Super Markets Charities Inc.

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    214 Tennessee grants totaling $2.7M · typical grant $475–$9,377 (tax year 2024)

    19% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: organization's charitable purpose

  3. Private foundation · Kansas City, MO

    Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc.

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $5,600 · typical grant $250–$1,600 (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

  4. Private foundation · Jacksonville, FL

    Csx Foundation Inc.

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    17 Tennessee grants totaling $17K · typical grant $130–$800 (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: various

  5. Public charity · Murfreesboro

    Charity Circle of Murfreesboro

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    38 Tennessee grants totaling $698K · typical grant $8,000–$20K (tax year 2025)

    18% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: contribution to donor advised fund to be used as general support for charities

  6. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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    57 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3M · typical grant $200–$2,505 (tax year 2025)

    32% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: matching contribution (general operating support); in support of creating economic mobility and career pathways

  7. Private foundation · Dearborn, MI

    Ford Motor Company Fund

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    12 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7M · typical grant $50K–$200K (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: ford community centers; employee volunteering; other services; entreprenuership; museums and cultural inst

  8. Private foundation · Nashville

    The Joel C and Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation

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    19 Tennessee grants totaling $193K · typical grant $1,000–$12K (tax year 2025)

    21% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: to further one or more of the exempt purposes of the charity

  9. Private foundation · Purchase, NY

    Central National Gottesman Foundation

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    3 Tennessee grants totaling $23K · typical grant $1,500–$20K (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: college tuition

  10. Private foundation · Nashville

    Joe C Davis Foundation

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    106 Tennessee grants totaling $6M · typical grant $10K–$55K (tax year 2024)

    12% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    7 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: operating support; program support; capacity building & operating support; capital support; operating & capacity building support

  11. Private foundation · Rolling Meadows, IL

    Arthur J Gallagher Foundation

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    40 Tennessee grants totaling $42K · typical grant $100–$1,000 (tax year 2024)

    68% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: general exempt purpose

  12. Public charity · Charleston Sc, SC

    The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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    45 Tennessee grants totaling $1.4M · typical grant $6,300–$20K (tax year 2024)

    36% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

  13. United Way · Murfreesboro

    United Way of Rutherford County

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    47 Tennessee grants totaling $694K · typical grant $2,500–$22K (tax year 2024)

    72% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: support for pregnant women; ann campbell early learning center; project learn and triple play program; child abuse, community ed and drug endangered children programs; rent and...

  14. United Way · Winchester

    United Way of Franklin County

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    13 Tennessee grants totaling $108K · typical grant $6,455–$10K (tax year 2024)

    8% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: see attached

  15. Community foundation · Nashville

    The Community Foundation of Middle

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    1155 Tennessee grants totaling $69.8M · typical grant $5,000–$25K (tax year 2024)

    46% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    55 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: 2024 support; for general support; for unrestricted support; to provide 1st time support for your important mission; for unrestricted use

  16. United Way · Hendersonville

    United Way of Sumner County

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    23 Tennessee grants totaling $458K · typical grant $9,078–$27K (tax year 2024)

    22% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: health focus; financial stability; youth opportunity; rebuilding lives; community resiliency

  17. Private foundation · Hendersonville

    Carolyn Smith Foundation

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    146 Tennessee grants totaling $4.2M · typical grant $8,000–$30K (tax year 2025)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing

    45% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: human services - local community; health - general; medical research; provide relief for human trafficking survivors & combat human trafficking in middle tennessee; programs...

  18. Public charity · Jackson

    West TN Healthcare Foundation Inc.

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    40 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7M · typical grant $9,394–$38K (tax year 2024)

    49% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    2 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: $6,000.00 women who care grant; $5,000.00 for general support; $250.00 windows of hope sponsorship; $2,093.53 for repair of ac unit; $1,500.00 steak n burger sponsorship;...

  19. Private foundation · Eagan, WI

    Adient Foundation Inc.

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $29K · typical grant $5,000–$7,500 (tax year 2024)

    80% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

  20. Public charity · New York, NY

    Community Solutions International Inc.

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $201K · typical grant $90K–$111K (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee grantees were new to it

    Funded: capacity building - built for zero coordinator; capacity building - upstream system coordinator - prevention & diversion coordinator

Source: each funder's latest e-filed IRS return: Form 990-PF for private foundations (grants paid and how it takes applications), Form 990 Schedule I for community foundations, United Ways and other public charities (grants over $5,000 to organizations). Included: every funder, wherever it is based, whose latest return lists grants to Tennessee organizations. Corporate and community-foundation programs are in the grant search.