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6 foundations that funded “Seeding Success”
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Public charity · Memphis
Seeding Success
How to apply: not stated
6 Tennessee grants totaling $2.9 million · typical grant $290,703 to $728,782 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Full service community schools program
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Public charity · Columbia, MD
Enterprise Community Partners Inc.
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $132,985 · typical grant $26,918 to $75,000 (tax year 2025)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Upward mobility - cross sector partnerships; Community partner capacity; Resilience - general
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Public charity · New York, NY
Blue Meridian Partners Inc.
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $15.1 million · typical grant $4 million to $7.1 million (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support scaling plan
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Public charity · Memphis
Women's Foundation for A Greater Memphis
How to apply: not stated
48 Tennessee grants totaling $2.1 million · typical grant $20,250 to $47,054 (tax year 2024)
19% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Various
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Private foundation · Troy, MI
The Kresge Foundation
Takes applications
30 Tennessee grants totaling $6.2 million · typical grant $120,000 to $250,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
2 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Project support grant to complete the final phase of the locally driven narrative efforts supported by ideas42; Project support to implement the strategic plan to strengthen...
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Public charity · Memphis
The Urban Child Institute
How to apply: not stated
43 Tennessee grants totaling $5 million · typical grant $10,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
37% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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.