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1,274 foundations in Shelby County
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Private foundation · Columbia, SC
The Smith Family Foundation
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $10,000 · 3 in Shelby County · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2023)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Rye, NH
Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $32,500 · 3 in Shelby County · typical grant $2,500 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Public charity · Cordova
Dow Endowment Fund Inc.
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $90,764 · 3 in Shelby County · typical grant $25,764 to $35,000 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Pediatric intensive; Childlife foundation; Ped ward
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Public charity · Memphis
Asher Myers-Residuary Tuwr 269-3000485
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $30,648 · 3 in Shelby County · typical grant $10,216 (tax year 2024)
Funded: A coalition of long-established charities, faith-based organizations, and social and health groups that support and promote people's safety, health, well-being and social and...
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Private foundation · Memphis
Allenberg Rosen Family Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $6,703 · 3 in Shelby County · typical grant $1,000 to $4,203 (tax year 2023)
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Private foundation · Nashville
The Healing Trust
Takes applications
145 Tennessee grants totaling $4.8 million · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $15,000 to $45,000 (tax year 2024)
28% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Nashville
The Frist Foundation
Letter first
128 Tennessee grants totaling $32.2 million · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
42% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
15 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: General support directed by lauren elcan ingram; Operating support for 2024; General support directed by julie and tommy frist; General support directed by jennifer and billy...
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Private foundation · Nashville
Joe C Davis Foundation
Takes applications
106 Tennessee grants totaling $6 million · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $10,000 to $55,000 (tax year 2024)
12% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
7 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Capacity building & operating support; Capital support; Operating & capacity building support; Capacity building support; Operating support & capacity building
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation
Takes applications
48 Tennessee grants totaling $171,417 · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $1,500 to $4,500 (tax year 2024)
2% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Unrestricted grant
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Private foundation · Nashville
Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation
Takes applications
48 Tennessee grants totaling $1.8 million · 2 in Shelby County · 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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Private foundation · Brentwood
Powell Foundation
Takes applications
41 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7 million · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
30% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
4 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Scholarship; Building fund; Hutchins legacy fund; UT genomics graduate student; Jennifer powell scholarship
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Private foundation · Cincinnati, OH
The Scripps Howard Foundation
How to apply: not stated
37 Tennessee grants totaling $49,195 · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $600 to $1,250 (tax year 2024)
54% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Volunteer Gift; Matching Gift; Community Market Grant; CEO discretionary grant; Journalism Internship stipend
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Public charity · Nashville
Delta Dental of Tennessee Inc.
How to apply: not stated
36 Tennessee grants totaling $1.2 million · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $10,000 to $35,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Event sponsorship; Event sponsorship and donation to the general fund; Donation to the general fund; Event sponsorship and donation to the capital campaign
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Private foundation · Morristown
Wallace Foundation
Takes applications
33 Tennessee grants totaling $99,875 · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $1,000 to $2,500 (tax year 2024)
15% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship; Wallace scholarship
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Public charity · San Antonio, TX
Petco Love
How to apply: not stated
31 Tennessee grants totaling $670,083 · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $10,000 to $25,678 (tax year 2024)
81% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Nashville
Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee
How to apply: not stated
28 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $21,157 to $69,406 (tax year 2024)
71% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Provide payment for salaries of job specialists
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Takes applications
18 Tennessee grants totaling $8.2 million · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $125,000 to $606,651 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: K-12 education; Public awareness and analysis; Pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; K-12 education; postsecondary education; public awareness and analysis; Postsecondary education
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Public charity · Franklin
Tennessee Charitable Care Network
How to apply: not stated
16 Tennessee grants totaling $305,504 · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $10,050 to $25,990 (tax year 2025)
6% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To improve health care services offered to low-income, underserved tennesseans.
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Public charity · Columbia, MO
Midway USA Foundation Inc.
How to apply: not stated
16 Tennessee grants totaling $272,693 · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $9,344 to $27,049 (tax year 2024)
38% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To fund youth shoothing sports
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Share Our Strength
How to apply: not stated
13 Tennessee grants totaling $208,095 · 2 in Shelby County · typical grant $10,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
38% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: School Meals
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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.