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300 foundations that funded “Community Foundation”
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Private foundation · Austin, TX
Shield-Ayres Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: General support of the organization
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Private foundation · White Bluff
Doochin Family Charitable Foundation
Takes applications
19 Tennessee grants totaling $115,038 · typical grant $300 to $11,000 (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
26% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Des Moines, IA
Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines
Ask before applying · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
4 Tennessee grants totaling $44,000 · typical grant $8,500 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Event sponsorship Nashville '24; Grant distribution; Psalms 78:72 alumni scholarship; School sponsorship
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Public charity · Memphis
Memphis Bar Foundation
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23 Tennessee grants totaling $41,000 · typical grant $2,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Legal aid and training
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Private foundation · Pittsburgh, PA
Highmark Foundation
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $107,500 · typical grant $7,500 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Five-year grant (2021-2025) to support traditionally under-represented minorities with dental scholarships.; To support school grants and award programs
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Private foundation · Princeton, NJ
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Takes applications
19 Tennessee grants totaling $2.6 million · typical grant $25,256 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
80% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 82000 rwjf healthy communities -- site visit grant; 82534 advancing economic inclusion and family wellbeing across Appalachia; 80655 using measuring love to train leaders in...
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Public charity · Franklin
Franklin Noon Rotary Charitable Foundation Inc.
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8 Tennessee grants totaling $140,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $14,000 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Food insecurity; Counseling and mental health; Support re-entry to society; Housing support; Support programing
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Private foundation · Charlotte, NC
Duke Energy Foundation
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $32,300 · typical grant $8,500 to $23,800 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Public assistance stlf
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Public charity · Nashville
Smile 180 Foundation
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47 Tennessee grants totaling $3.5 million · typical grant $21,541 to $75,000 (tax year 2024)
23% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
19 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Grant for dental clinic operations; Grant for dental clinic operations, capital improvements, and dental safety net payments; Grant for dental clinic operations and capital...
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Chrysalis Foundation
Takes applications
9 Tennessee grants totaling $101,700 · typical grant $1,200 to $15,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Operating fund
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Public charity · Independence, OH
Peyback Foundation Inc.
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8 Tennessee grants totaling $90,000 · typical grant $10,000 (tax year 2024)
12% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Memphis
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $6.1 million · typical grant $724,775 to $1.9 million (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: FedEx Fam House Operational; Capital Acquisitions; Operational Support and Marketing; Research Services And IRB Fees
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Private foundation · Kansas City, MO
Commerce Bancshares Foundation
Takes applications
5 Tennessee grants totaling $14,500 · typical grant $500 to $4,500 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Used at the discretion of the board of directors or trustees as they see fit for operating their organization; All in for hygiene
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Private foundation · Nashville
Micah Charitable Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $3,475 · typical grant $275 to $2,000 (tax year 2025)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Poor children camp; Homeless relief; Homeless shelter
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Public charity · Nashville
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9 million · typical grant $202,363 to $981,607 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: K-12 & post secondary education - career readiness (jpmorgan chase); K-12 & post secondary education - career readiness (jpmorgan chase), partnership 2030 initiative, &...
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Private foundation · Tarpon Springs, FL
James P Gills Foundation
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $11,200 · typical grant $1,200 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Ministry
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Private foundation · Brewton, AL
The Miller Charitable Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $29,750 · typical grant $5,000 to $24,750 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Unrestricted contribution
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Private foundation · Nashville
Ezell Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
35 Tennessee grants totaling $509,800 · typical grant $3,000 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)
17% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Morristown
Wallace Foundation
Takes applications
33 Tennessee grants totaling $99,875 · typical grant $1,000 to $2,500 (tax year 2024)
15% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship; Wallace scholarship
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Private foundation · Nashville
The Danner Foundation
Takes applications
28 Tennessee grants totaling $395,500 · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scoutreach program; To support high school debate program; $25,000 for General Purposes and $25,000 for Dorie Bolze Fund; $10,000 for general purposes and $10,000 for the House Fund
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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.