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1,093 foundations that funded “University”
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Private foundation · Wilmington, NY
Ttee the University of the South Uw
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $18,923 · typical grant $18,923 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Birmingham, AL
Louise B Mcgavock for Vanderbilt University
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $500,000 · typical grant $500,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2023)
Funded: Gov
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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...
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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...
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation
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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
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Private foundation · New York, NY
We Are All Human Foundation
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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: University scholarship
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
The Fullgraf Foundation
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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...
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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...
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Private foundation · Waukesha, WI
The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc.
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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
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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...
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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
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Private foundation · Jackson, MS
Providence Foundation
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Private foundation · Lebanon
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Foundation
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Private foundation · Memphis
Hohenberg Charity Trust
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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.