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1,637 foundations that funded “T”

  1. Private foundation · Overland Park, KS

    Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,000 · typical grant $4,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Dec 31 · next Dec 31, 2026 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To provide children affected by limb loss with the prostheses they need throughout childhood and adolescence and serving as a caring resource, advocate and support system for...

  2. Private foundation · Fort Lauderdale, FL

    Hi Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $30,000 · typical grant $30,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To find cures and save children with pediatric cancer and other diseases.

  3. Private foundation · Pleasant Valley, NY

    Ambellan Charitable Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Aug 30 · next Aug 30, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support the organization's mission of treating childhood illnesses.

  4. Private foundation · Long Grove, IL

    Karen and Jason Sussman Family Foundation

    How to apply: not stated

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $15,000 · typical grant $15,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To enhance the purpose of the organization

  5. Private foundation · Dallas, TX

    Powdermaker Family Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Stated deadlines: Mar 15, Sep 15 · next Mar 15, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To support children

  6. Private foundation · Green Bay, WI

    Lois A Kania Charitable Foundation Ltd

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $500 · typical grant $500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To support children's medical care and research programs

  7. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Gennx Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,750 · typical grant $1,750 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To further that tax exempt mission of the organization

  8. Private foundation · Fayetteville, NC

    Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family

    Takes applications

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

    Stated deadlines: Sep 30 · next Sep 30, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support charitable mission

  9. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Anderson-Rogers Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $18,000 · typical grant $18,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To support provide service dogs and training to disabled veterans in need as they return to civilian life, and reducing overcrowding in animal shelters.

  10. Private foundation · Ridgeland, MS

    Walker Foundation

    How to apply: not stated

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $30,000 · typical grant $30,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To support the mission of the organization.

  11. Private foundation · Palm Beach, FL

    Atwater Kent Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,000 · typical grant $4,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To further the purpose of the donee org.

  12. Private foundation · Ridgeland, MS

    C Spire Wireless Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: TechX Awards Competition

  13. Private foundation · Snoqualmie, WA

    Whitaker Foundation

    Takes applications

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

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To provide support to exempt organization

  14. Private foundation · Troy, MI

    Kemp Klein Umphrey Endelman & May Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $100 · typical grant $100 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To provide research and treatment for childhood illness

  15. Private foundation · Decatur, AL

    Greenpoint Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $15,000 · typical grant $15,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To support General Operating and Project Grow

  16. Private foundation · Jackson, MS

    Better Life Foundation

    How to apply: not stated

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $15,000 · typical grant $15,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To support the programs of the organization

  17. Private foundation · Long Beach, CA

    Ethel Josephine Scantland Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

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

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To help persons and families who have faced catastrophic circumstances.

  18. Private foundation · Hackensack, NJ

    Robert and Mary Jane Hekemian Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,500 · typical grant $3,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment

  19. Private foundation · Auburn, NY

    Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $25,000 · typical grant $25,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Toward wetland restoration at owasco flats inlet

  20. Private foundation · Cincinnati, OH

    Richard D Reis Family Foundation

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,500 · typical grant $2,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: To be used by the organization in the manner most beneficial

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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.