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8 foundations that funded “Jobs”

  1. Public charity · Nashville

    Jobs for America's Graduates Tennessee

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    28 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · 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

  2. Public charity · Boston, MA

    Jobs for the Future Inc.

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $421,622 · typical grant $30,000 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)

    60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support ares regional challenge; To support pwc charitable foundation; To support dol growth opportunities 5; To support wre walmart networks development & workforce...

  3. Public charity · Washington, DC

    Jobs With Justice Education Fund

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $284,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $32,400 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  4. Private foundation · Germantown

    Irvin Lansky Foundation

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    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

  5. Public charity · Brentwood

    Miles for Miles Foundation

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $7,000 · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

    Funded: Jobs program; Support k-12 children with disabilities in finding christ

  6. Private foundation · Ballston Lake, NY

    Christopher W Kurkjian Charitable Giving Foundation Inc.

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $4,000 · typical grant $1,000 to $3,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To create sustainable jobs & provide relief by distributing shoes & clothing around the world.; To advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases...

  7. Private foundation · Battle Creek, MI

    Wk Kellogg Foundation

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    11 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $17,500 to $175,000 (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    10% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Matching Grant; Health and Health Equity; Promise of an Equitable Future; Trustee Mini Grant; Jobs and Family Economic Security

  8. Private foundation · Rives

    Newell & Bettie Graham Foundation

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    6 Tennessee grants totaling $62,200 · typical grant $2,000 to $23,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: ChurchIn Obion County; Equestrian; Distribute Items to Needy Children in Obion Co; Hospital/Research Facility; Create Jobs for Marginalized Women in Obion Co

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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.