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9 foundations that funded “Progress”

  1. Private foundation · Lebanon

    Community Progress Committee Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,390 · typical grant $5,390 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded: Ignite the vision campaign

  2. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Arcus Foundation

    Takes applications

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $106,654 · typical grant $504 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: 2024 grantmakers for southern progress membership support

  3. 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

  4. Private foundation · New York, NY

    The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $180,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: 2024-2025 grantmakers for southern progress annual membership; Directors cancer innovation fund (general fund)

  5. 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...

  6. Private foundation · Memphis

    Formanek Foundation

    Takes applications

    15 Tennessee grants totaling $5.5 million · typical grant $40,000 to $600,000 (tax year 2024)

    27% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To promote the provision of visual art medium through diverse exhibits; To support the provision of health care for underinsured people; To improve Memphis by the revival of...

  7. Public charity · Vienna, VA

    Sourceamerica

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    3 Tennessee grants totaling $85,416 · typical grant $13,500 to $54,916 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Ers, npa training vouchers; Cmmc grant; Ers, training, certification & compliance grant, regulatory compliance grant

  8. Public charity · Nashville

    Action TN

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    7 Tennessee grants totaling $682,000 · typical grant $37,500 to $152,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  9. Public charity · Nashville

    Tennessee Investor Fund

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    6 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $29,500 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)

    33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Civic engagement; Electioneering; Civil engagement

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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.