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1,011 foundations that funded “E”
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
Charles R Wood Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $110,000 · typical grant $110,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Imagination Library Program in the New York counties of Essex, Clinton, Franklin and Hamilton
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Private foundation · Miami, FL
Melvyn & Irene Greenstein Family Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To help further the progress of the organization's charitable and educational activities
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Private foundation · Salt Lake City, UT
George S and Dolores Dore
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $100,000 · typical grant $100,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support wetland conservation in the great salt lake ecosystem, to help complete 2024-2025 projects and to leverage other federal and private funding grants
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Private foundation · Sunnyvale, CA
Intuitive Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $104,797 · typical grant $104,797 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: This followship program will provide fellows with the clinical expertise to manage complex abdoninal wall pathology
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Public charity · Memphis
Jewish Foundation of Memphis
How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
62 Tennessee grants totaling $6.3 million · typical grant $13,000 to $73,200 (tax year 2024)
23% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Religious; Educational; Arts & cultural; Health / welfare; Community development
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Public charity · Columbus, OH
Columbus Foundation
How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
10 Tennessee grants totaling $1.2 million · typical grant $15,000 to $93,110 (tax year 2024)
70% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Social services; Education; Health; Neighborhood
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Community foundation · Naples, FL
Collier Community Foundation Inc.
How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
7 Tennessee grants totaling $245,371 · typical grant $11,155 to $55,000 (tax year 2024)
71% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Human services; Environment & animals; Public, societal benefit; Education; Health
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Public charity · New Orleans, LA
The Greater New Orleans Foundation
How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
7 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $10,000 to $92,600 (tax year 2024)
57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Health; Environment; Health support; Film & video; Education
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Community foundation · N Charleston, SC
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc.
How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
3 Tennessee grants totaling $52,500 · typical grant $7,500 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Human needs; Environment; Education
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Public charity · Memphis
Artsmemphis
How to apply: not stated
46 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $12,000 to $28,500 (tax year 2024)
11% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Operating support & arts builds community; Operating support & enhancement
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Private foundation · Knoxville
Jane I Pettway Foundation
Takes applications
40 Tennessee grants totaling $334,276 · typical grant $5,000 to $11,000 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Mar 31 · next Mar 31, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
15% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Financially needy women; Utility assistance for; Samaritan place; Jane pettway helping women; Certified nurse assistant
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Private foundation · Troy, MI
The Kresge Foundation
Takes applications
30 Tennessee grants totaling $6.2 million · typical grant $120,000 to $250,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
2 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Project support grant to complete the final phase of the locally driven narrative efforts supported by ideas42; Project support to implement the strategic plan to strengthen...
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Public charity · Nashville
Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy
How to apply: not stated
28 Tennessee grants totaling $3.8 million · typical grant $70,505 to $147,477 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Offset funding gap caused by cuts to member cac's voca grants and program enhancement
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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 · Providence, RI
Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353
Takes applications
17 Tennessee grants totaling $51,066 · typical grant $370 to $3,115 (tax year 2024)
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gift to civic agency; Matching gift to education; Matching gift to enviornement agency; General support to civic agency; Matching gift to health & human services agency
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Ford Foundation
Takes applications
14 Tennessee grants totaling $1.2 million · typical grant $375 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)
57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gift; Core support for an exhibition by tabitha arnold on the history of workers rights and labor struggles in Chattanooga; Core support for peoples advocacy...
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Private foundation · Germantown
Irvin Lansky Foundation
Takes applications
13 Tennessee grants totaling $575,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $70,000 (tax year 2024)
8% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Jobs for life; Pcn program education; Teach reading skills to elementary children; Personal and career development; Jewish family services
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Public charity · Knoxville
Covenant Health
How to apply: not stated
12 Tennessee grants totaling $303,948 · typical grant $10,000 to $52,000 (tax year 2024)
17% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support for fundraisers benefitting Covenant Health hospitals; Sponsorship for two flights; Leadership development; Sponsorship of fundraiser marathon; Support for Center for...
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Private foundation · Westlake Village, CA
Conrad N Hilton Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $262,360 · typical grant $1,000 to $1,650 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Aug 29 · next Aug 29, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support campus youth outreach; For prenatal-3 policy impact center to lead an early childhood development governance evaluation and advance evidence-based policy progress...
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Private foundation · Columbia
West Tennessee Young Farmers & Homemakers Leadership Development
Takes applications
9 Tennessee grants totaling $27,300 · typical grant $2,750 to $3,250 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Governors school; Scholarships; Leadership development; Regional livestock expo/jr showcase; 4-h congress sponsorship
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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.