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66 foundations that funded “Gift”
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Community foundation · Lafayette, LA
Community Foundation of Acadiana
Ask before applying · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
4 Tennessee grants totaling $219,450 · typical grant $41,950 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Annual gift; General support, cancer research; Exhibit expansion
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Private foundation · Radnor, PA
Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
65 Tennessee grants totaling $7,784 · typical grant $50 to $104 (tax year 2025)
57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gifts
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Public charity · New York, NY
Ernst & Young Foundation
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13 Tennessee grants totaling $275,310 · typical grant $10,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
17% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gifts
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Private foundation · Fort Worth, TX
Bnsf Railway Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $59,340 · typical grant $240 to $8,000 (tax year 2025)
29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gifts 1; Civic; Health & human services; United way/red cross; Youth
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Public charity · Montvale, NJ
Kpmg Us Foundation Inc.
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $205,400 · typical grant $12,050 to $49,700 (tax year 2024)
40% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gifts
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Private foundation · Spokane, WA
The Avista Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $200 · typical grant $200 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching Gifts
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Private foundation · Indianapolis, IN
Lilly Endowment Inc.
Takes applications
19 Tennessee grants totaling $18.9 million · typical grant $50,000 to $2 million (tax year 2025)
29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Employee matching gift(s); Religion & cultural inst initiative; Youth on faith & service initiative; Capacity buildg-disaster relief orgs; Nurturing children-worship & prayer
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Private foundation · Arlington, VA
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
Takes applications
7 Tennessee grants totaling $103,465 · typical grant $150 to $49,015 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Jul 15 · next Jul 15, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Employee matching gift; Peer empowerment network for employment: peer mentorship between employed and unemployed adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities to...
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Private foundation · Falls Church, VA
The Northrop Grumman Foundation
Takes applications
7 Tennessee grants totaling $6,450 · typical grant $50 to $2,500 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Oct 31 · next Oct 31, 2026 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
40% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: General operating grants & matching gifts.
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Private foundation · New Orleans, LA
The Booth-Bricker Fund
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $6,520 · typical grant $2,760 to $3,760 (tax year 2025)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching trustee's gift and contribution; Matching trustee's gift
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Private foundation · Stevens Point, WI
Sentry Insurance Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $359 · typical grant $132 to $227 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Donations - matching gift
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Private foundation · Canonsburg, PA
Eqt Foundation
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $300 · typical grant $100 to $200 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 2024 matching gift; 2023 matching gift
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Private foundation · Toms River, NJ
Oceanfirst Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $150 · typical grant $150 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Employee matching gift
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Private foundation · Naples, FL
Millstein Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $500 · typical grant $500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Unrestricted charitable gift
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Private foundation · Boston, MA
Fidelity Foundation
Takes applications
29 Tennessee grants totaling $37,436 · typical grant $170 to $750 (tax year 2024)
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Fidelity matching gifts to education
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United Way · New Orleans, LA
United Way of Southeast Louisiana
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $100,032 · typical grant $25,936 to $74,096 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Grant funding and designated gifts; Designated gifts
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Public charity · Washington, DC
The Pew Charitable Trusts
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $330,422 · typical grant $75,000 to $174,257 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Policy; Matching Gift
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Public charity · Nashville
Nashville Public Education Foundation
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $15,000 · typical grant $5,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support of music programs and united way employee giving gifts; 2024 public schools hall of fame honoree
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Private foundation · Brentwood
Powell Foundation
Takes applications
41 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7 million · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
4 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Scholarship; Building fund; Annual gift; Hutchins legacy fund; UT genomics graduate student
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Private foundation · Nashville
Thackston Family Foundation
Takes applications
16 Tennessee grants totaling $96,500 · typical grant $2,500 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Elevator repair; Scholarship; Gift to food bank; Historic place markers; Empower me daycamp
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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.