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11 foundations that funded “Center Cultural Innovation”
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Public charity · Utica, MS
Mississippi Center for Cultural Production
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $50,000 · typical grant $25,000 (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Arts & wellness grant
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Private foundation · Knoxville
Boyd Foundation
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56 Tennessee grants totaling $9.3 million · typical grant $10,000 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: For annual budget.; To seek to build and admire meaningful arts and crafts expeeriences.; To preserve and enrich the diversity of art and culture in East Tennessee.; To...
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Private foundation · Ooltewah
Tucker Foundation
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60 Tennessee grants totaling $4.3 million · typical grant $5,000 to $30,000 (tax year 2024)
31% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship - evan moore; Scholarship fund; Relay for life; Pups4patriots Tennessee; General support - imagine arts education initiative
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Public charity · Kansas City, MO
Mid-America Arts Alliance
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $110,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Arts program support
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Private foundation · Wheaton, IL
The William and Mary Davis Foundation
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $14,100 · typical grant $3,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Operational funding
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Private foundation · Memphis
Delta Boule
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6 Tennessee grants totaling $30,000 · typical grant $5,000 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Dec 31 · next Dec 31, 2026 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: General program support
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Public charity · Abingdon, VA
Food City Charitable Foundation
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49 Tennessee grants totaling $1 million · typical grant $10,000 to $28,000 (tax year 2025)
61% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support the mission
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Public charity · Memphis
Artsmemphis
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46 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $12,000 to $28,500 (tax year 2024)
11% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Operating support & arts builds community; Operating support & enhancement
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Public charity · Chattanooga
Artsbuild
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24 Tennessee grants totaling $601,400 · typical grant $9,050 to $19,000 (tax year 2024)
8% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Memphis
Memphis Equity Through Arts Inc.
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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
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Private foundation · Cleveland
The Bob & Susan Card Charitable Foundation
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12 Tennessee grants totaling $70,050 · typical grant $500 to $12,500 (tax year 2024)
Funded: Operating funds
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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.