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2,917 foundations
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Private foundation · Fort Worth, TX
Bnsf Railway Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $59,340 · typical grant $240 to $8,000 (tax year 2025)
29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gifts 1; Civic; Health & human services; United way/red cross; Youth
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Private foundation · Houston, TX
The Powell Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $53,750 · typical grant $500 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
45% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Designated Grant: General operating and support
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Private foundation · Atlanta, GA
Addo Foundation Inc.
Takes applications · Mostly scholarships for individuals
11 Tennessee grants totaling $4,250 · typical grant $250 to $500 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Jan 30, Feb 27 · next Jan 30, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded: Education support
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Private foundation · Battle Creek, MI
Wk Kellogg Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $17,500 to $175,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
10% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching Grant; Health and Health Equity; Promise of an Equitable Future; Trustee Mini Grant; Jobs and Family Economic Security
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Mutual of America Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $103,460 · typical grant $50 to $1,200 (tax year 2025)
89% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Aarp
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $144,583 · typical grant $8,500 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)
91% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Community Challenge Grant to support AARP's Livable Communities initiative; Sponsorship of event; Sponsorship of the free rides to the polls on election day event; "Sponsorship...
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Public charity · Minneapolis, MN
Educational Credit Management Corporation
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $15,199 to $120,000 (tax year 2024)
82% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Fafsa student support; Project success, fafsa student support
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Private foundation · Westlake Village, CA
Conrad N Hilton Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $262,360 · typical grant $1,000 to $1,650 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Aug 29 · next Aug 29, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support campus youth outreach; For prenatal-3 policy impact center to lead an early childhood development governance evaluation and advance evidence-based policy progress...
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Private foundation · Irving, TX
Celanese Foundation
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $13,298 · typical grant $26 to $500 (tax year 2024)
55% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Chicago, IL
National Association of Realtors
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $483,163 · typical grant $8,503 to $68,867 (tax year 2024)
36% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Menlo Park, CA
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $2.3 million · typical grant $25,000 to $300,000 (tax year 2024)
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Matching gift of staff and board members; For supporting leaders and teachers in accelerating student learning; For legal technical assistance; For leaderstrust pilot planning...
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Private foundation · Louisville, KY
Robert W and Elise B Lykins Charitable
Takes applications
11 Tennessee grants totaling $32,790 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
9% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support the programming, production and education outreach; To provide protection, maintenance and improvement of radnor lake; To support the conservation of Tennessee's...
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Public charity · Knoxville
Women's Fund of East Tennessee
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $382,610 · typical grant $35,000 (tax year 2024)
73% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Youth development; Human services; Arts, culture; Philanthropy; Educ. Institutions
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Public charity · New York, NY
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $3.2 million · typical grant $25,000 to $350,000 (tax year 2024)
82% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Civil rights, social action & advocacy; Environment; Community improvement & capacity building, human services; Education; Human services
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Public charity · Rosemont, IL
Genyouth Incorporated
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $80,296 · typical grant $5,591 to $7,872 (tax year 2024)
82% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support physical activities in schools; Combat food insecurity in schools
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Public charity · Burbank, CA
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $203,872 · typical grant $12,266 to $18,764 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To provide musical instruments to students in need.
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Public charity · Nashville
We Are One World Foundation Inc.
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $580,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
82% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Bartlett
Lakeland Lions Foundation
How to apply: not stated
11 Tennessee grants totaling $264,275 · typical grant $22,385 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
9% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Oklahoma City, OK
Fred Jones Family Foundation
Takes applications
10 Tennessee grants totaling $31,580 · typical grant $750 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
80% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Claws for paws and sunset safari benefactor; Claws for paws and jaws annual fund; 2024-2025 gridiron club; Western heritage awards - 2025; Even split b/w vanderbilt club sports...
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Private foundation · Knoxville
The Haslam 3 Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
10 Tennessee grants totaling $10.4 million · typical grant $75,000 to $1 million (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Jun 30, Dec 31 · next Dec 31, 2026 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
30% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Develop christian leaders; Support student education; Education access; Manage and preserve lakeshore park; Scholarships and programs
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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.