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487 foundations that funded “University”

  1. Private foundation · Norwich, NY

    Jessie H Baker Educational Fund

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,050 · typical grant $3,050 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarship

  2. Private foundation · Evansville, IN

    Bonnie Ruff Scholarship Fund Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,750 · typical grant $1,750 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarship

  3. Private foundation · Kent, OH

    Davey Company Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,000 · typical grant $3,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Arboricultural grants

  4. Private foundation · Greensboro, NC

    Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Jun 1 · next Jun 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship

  5. Private foundation · Dallas, TX

    Miriam Sutro Price Scholarship Fund

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Jun 1 · next Jun 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarships

  6. Private foundation · Brooklyn, OH

    Bean L Carl Scholarship Pfdn

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $775 · typical grant $775 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Mar 1 · next Mar 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarship

  7. Private foundation · Littleton, CO

    Petty Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  8. Private foundation · Artesia, NM

    Written in Red Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarship

  9. Private foundation · Westminster, MD

    Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $7,500 · typical grant $7,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Agricultural scholarship

  10. Private foundation · Batavia, IL

    Hansen-Furnas Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,000 · typical grant $4,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Mar 1 · next Mar 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Scholarships

  11. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Spunk Fund Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $13,200 · typical grant $13,200 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Apr 1 · next Apr 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To support a second offering of journeys, the undergraduate course that will examine the metaphor of an individual journey and how that metaphor is understood culturally,...

  12. Private foundation · Greensboro, NC

    The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $12,500 · typical grant $12,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Stated deadlines: Jun 15, Oct 31 · next Oct 31, 2026 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarship

  13. 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

  14. Private foundation · Milwaukee, WI

    William E Mcelroy Charitable Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $9,125 · typical grant $9,125 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Scholarship

  15. Private foundation · Nashville

    Gibson Gives

    Takes applications

    100 Tennessee grants totaling $674,714 · typical grant $2,999 to $7,297 (tax year 2025)

    62% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Program use & fundraising efforts

  16. Private foundation · Nashville

    Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation

    Takes applications

    48 Tennessee grants totaling $1.8 million · typical grant $5,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    39% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  17. 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

  18. Private foundation · Bristol, VA

    The United Company Foundation

    Takes applications

    22 Tennessee grants totaling $653,302 · typical grant $7,075 to $25,000 (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Jul 1, Dec 1 · next Dec 1, 2026 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Education - tuition; Education - books; Support for continuation of museum's extensive educational resource project; Sequoyah council capital program - camp davy crockett;...

  19. 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

  20. Private foundation · Seattle, WA

    Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    Takes applications

    18 Tennessee grants totaling $8.2 million · typical grant $125,000 to $606,651 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: K-12 education; Public awareness and analysis; Pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; K-12 education; postsecondary education; public awareness and analysis; Postsecondary education

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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.