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  1. Public charity · Durham, NC

    Southern Vision Alliance

    How to apply: not stated

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $30,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Qmf grant - southern intermediaries project; Frontline funds solidarity grant

  2. Private foundation · Austin, TX

    Nelson Puett Foundation

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $12,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $7,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Charitable, educational, religious, scientific & medical

  3. Private foundation · Baltimore, MD

    Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $12,500 · typical grant $2,500 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  4. Private foundation · Bristol

    Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    7 Tennessee grants totaling $137,295 · typical grant $3,000 to $35,000 (tax year 2025)

    57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Children's programs; New concession space; Ex director salary; Covid; Books for preschool

  5. Community foundation · Sioux Falls, SD

    Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation Inc.

    How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $37,274 · typical grant $9,500 to $12,000 (tax year 2024)

    75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Preserve our prairies initiative; General support, bibles

  6. Private foundation · Chattanooga

    Robert L and Kathrina H Maclellan Foundation

    Takes applications

    34 Tennessee grants totaling $2.8 million · typical grant $14,000 to $80,000 (tax year 2024)

    32% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: For education of youth and children.; For outreach to families.; For holistic community outreach and development.; For outreach to the indigent.; For spiritual formation and education.

  7. Public charity · Memphis

    Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    19 Tennessee grants totaling $398,600 · typical grant $9,600 to $30,000 (tax year 2024)

    26% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Organizational development; Summer music programming; Memphis slim house collaboratory building maintenance

  8. Private foundation · Memphis

    John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust

    Takes applications

    19 Tennessee grants totaling $1.4 million · typical grant $20,000 to $60,000 (tax year 2024)

    Funded: Benefit children; 2023 grant request; Grant requested; Benefit charity; Public benefit

  9. United Way · Athens

    United Way of Mcminn and Meigs Counties

    How to apply: not stated

    12 Tennessee grants totaling $484,000 · typical grant $15,000 to $53,400 (tax year 2024)

    17% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Partner agency; Community grant

  10. United Way · Waverly

    United Way of Humphreys County

    How to apply: not stated

    11 Tennessee grants totaling $0 (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  11. Private foundation · Columbia, MD

    Wr Grace Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    6 Tennessee grants totaling $10,000 · typical grant $1,000 to $2,500 (tax year 2024)

    17% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Education & science; Health & social welfare; Urban, civic & culture

  12. Public charity · Memphis

    St Jude Children's Research Hospital

    How to apply: not stated

    5 Tennessee grants totaling $3.8 million · typical grant $8,000 to $125,000 (tax year 2024)

    40% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Sponsorship; Financial support

  13. United Way · Paramus, NJ

    United Way of Bergen County

    How to apply: not stated

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $132,709 · typical grant $6,500 to $113,789 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Donor designation

  14. Public charity · Nashville

    National Council of Jewish Women

    How to apply: not stated

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $21,810 · typical grant $5,810 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Provide general support.; Provide support to the casa projects

  15. Private foundation · Haviland, OH

    Samaritan Foundation

    Takes applications

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $120,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  16. Public charity · Weston, FL

    Anda Foundation

    How to apply: not stated

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $30,000 · typical grant $10,000 (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Grant paid to charitable organization

  17. Private foundation · Palm Beach, FL

    C and A Johnson Family Foundation

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $220,000 · typical grant $70,000 to $150,000 (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Charitable support

  18. Private foundation · Wakefield, MA

    Knopf Family Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $110,000 · typical grant $35,000 to $75,000 (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: To help provide exceptional care for children battling medulloblastoma, brain tumor cancer and to help researchers, who are working on it to better understand what causes it;...

  19. Private foundation · St Louis, MO

    Fischer-Bauer-Knirps Foundation

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $2,000 · typical grant $1,000 (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  20. Private foundation · Wheeling, WV

    Paisley Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $300,125 · typical grant $100 to $300,025 (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Hiram #7 Franklin; Expansion of the store

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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.