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1,093 foundations that funded “University”

  1. Private foundation · Wilmington, NY

    Ttee the University of the South Uw

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $18,923 · typical grant $18,923 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  2. Private foundation · Birmingham, AL

    Louise B Mcgavock for Vanderbilt University

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $500,000 · typical grant $500,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2023)

    Funded: Gov

  3. Private foundation · Boynton Beach, FL

    Nat R & Martha M Knaster Charitable Trust

    Takes applications

    8 Tennessee grants totaling $85,500 · typical grant $5,000 to $17,000 (tax year 2024)

    14% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Unrestricted $10,000now campaign beta pi chapter $2,500; College fund for haslam business school at university of Tennessee; Haslam facility expense fund for new business...

  4. Private foundation · New York, NY

    William T Grant Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    5 Tennessee grants totaling $438,348 · typical grant $25,000 to $151,616 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Applying a critical lens to the use of research evidence in state policymaking; Using implementation science to reduce health disparities in youth & families: a...

  5. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation

    Invitation only

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $300 · typical grant $300 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: University of Tennessee College of Nursing fund

  6. Private foundation · New York, NY

    We Are All Human Foundation

    Invitation only

    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: University scholarship

  7. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    The Fullgraf Foundation

    Invitation only

    26 Tennessee grants totaling $244,250 · typical grant $2,500 to $15,000 (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Chattanooga green prix events including the goblin class for elementary school students and the f24 classes for middle school and high school students; To provide support for...

  8. Private foundation · Princeton, NJ

    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

    Takes applications

    19 Tennessee grants totaling $2.6 million · typical grant $25,256 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    80% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: 82000 rwjf healthy communities -- site visit grant; 82534 advancing economic inclusion and family wellbeing across Appalachia; 80655 using measuring love to train leaders in...

  9. Private foundation · Waukesha, WI

    The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc.

    Invitation only

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $25,000 to $1 million (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Develop a framework to form leaders for flourishing at belmont university; Implement apdp; Embedding em institutionally

  10. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $337,500 · typical grant $62,500 to $275,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Using implementation science to reduce health disparities in youth & families: a university-federally qualified health center partnership; To support the project "disrupting...

  11. Private foundation · Richardson, TX

    L & M Meador Scholarship Trust

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $6,250 · typical grant $6,250 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: College/university student scholarship awards

  12. Private foundation · Jackson, MS

    Providence Foundation

    Ask before applying

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $500 · typical grant $500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: General Unrestricted Support of the University

  13. Private foundation · Honolulu, HI

    Chung Kun Ai Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,000 · typical grant $4,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Educational scholarship vanderbilt university

  14. Private foundation · Naples, FL

    Koches Family Foundationinc

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,750 · typical grant $1,750 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Alumni support of university programs

  15. Private foundation · Ball Ground, GA

    Mickey T Dunn Foundation

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $50,000 · typical grant $50,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Vanderbilt university medical center development has a fund that goes towards curing thyroid cancer through their research of otolaryngology & the head & neck cancer.

  16. Private foundation · Lebanon

    Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Foundation

    Invitation only

    5 Tennessee grants totaling $9,000 · typical grant $1,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship - Middle Tennessee state university; Scholarship - mississippi state university; Scholarship - university of miami; Scholarship - East Tennessee state university

  17. Private foundation · Louisville, KY

    Jake and Jennie Sabel Educational Trust

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,300 · typical grant $4,300 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Partial tuition payment - trevecca nazarene university

  18. Private foundation · Mission Woods, KS

    The Sherman Family Foundation

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    1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To further post secondary education at an accredited university.

  19. Community foundation · Richmond, VA

    The Community Foundation Inc.

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

    6 Tennessee grants totaling $424,750 · typical grant $20,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Health and wellness; University or private school

  20. Private foundation · Memphis

    Hohenberg Charity Trust

    Invitation only

    11 Tennessee grants totaling $216,500 · typical grant $10,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)

    18% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Support for the operations of the mid south food bank; Support for the operations of christian brothers university; Support for the operations of the regional one foundation;...

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.