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409 foundations

Private foundation · Shelbyville
J B Cash Foundation Inc.

Takes applications

3 Tennessee grants totaling $32,000 · typical grant $2,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 8 Tennessee grants, such as Calvary Baptist Church, Shelbyville Mills Baptist Church, Liberty Grove Baptist Church

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

Funded: Exempt organization
Public charity · Harrisburg, PA
The Foundation for Enhancing Communities

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $116,000 · typical grant $6,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Parish Presbyterian Church

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Community development; Religion
Private foundation · Landrum, SC
Kellett Family Foundation

Takes applications

3 Tennessee grants totaling $8,000 · typical grant $2,650 to $2,700 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 3 Tennessee grants, such as Salama Urban Ministries

Stated deadlines: Mar 1 · next Mar 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

Funded: Charitable - general purpose
Private foundation · Fort Worth, TX
Ken W Davis Foundation

Takes applications

3 Tennessee grants totaling $100,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 3 Tennessee grants, such as Opportunity Tribe (unlock Ministries Inc), True Purpose Ministries

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

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Restoration for self-trafficking; Building project - capital campaign
Public charity · New Orleans, LA
Igivecatholic

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $145,213 · typical grant $40,681 to $52,565 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 6 Tennessee grants, such as Diocese of Knoxville, Diocese of Memphis, Diocese of Nashville

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

Funded: Participant in the #igivecatholic campaign
Public charity · Nashville
Center for Contemplative Justice

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $88,627 · typical grant $7,000 to $71,627 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as St Augustine's Church

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Outreach travel; Recovery housing
Public charity · Hoover, AL
Servant Life Missions Inc.

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $220,590 · typical grant $26,155 to $118,605 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Brinkley Heights Ministries Dba Street Reach

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

Funded: Facilitate camps and activities in foreign countries for the organization's volunteers mission trips
Private foundation · Bluefield, WV
Jam Family Foundation Inc.

Takes applications

3 Tennessee grants totaling $11,500 · typical grant $500 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 3 Tennessee grants, such as St Henry Catholic Church

33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Educational
Public charity · Lascassas
The Rock Campus Outreach

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $28,390 · typical grant $7,700 to $11,390 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Every Nation Churches & Ministries

Funded only returning groups in its latest year

Funded: Student and athletic outreach; Ministry to college athletes
Public charity · South Bend, IN
Lesea Global Feed the Hungry Inc.

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $695,432 · typical grant $73,342 to $360,515 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as The Bridge Ministry Inc.

33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Relief
Public charity · Houston, TX
Lewis Family Charitable Foundation

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $32,500 · typical grant $7,500 to $12,500 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Daystar Counseling Ministries Inc.

33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Youth development-youth development programs; Mental health & crisis intervention-counseling; Health care-alliances & advocacy
Private foundation · Merrill, WI
Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc.

Takes applications

3 Tennessee grants totaling $5,250 · typical grant $100 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 2 Tennessee grants, such as New Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, St John Baptist Church

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Hattie's luncheon fundraiser
Private foundation · Nashville
The Allen Foundation C/o Reber M Boult

Takes applications

3 Tennessee grants totaling $61,000 · typical grant $8,000 to $27,000 (tax year 2025)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Christ Church Cathedral

No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: General funds
Public charity · Inverness, FL
Us Family Foundation Inc.

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $514,898 · typical grant $7,000 to $500,000 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Precept Ministries International

67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Education; General funding; Medical research
Public charity · Birmingham, AL
Reel Life International Inc.

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $211,345 · typical grant $24,800 to $117,050 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Caribbean Ministries Association

33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Various monthly grants: rincon family & church ministries, emmanuel house school, and pasitos de jesus girls orphanage, joel cotes translator in dr.; Guatemala baptist camp...
Public charity · Oklahoma City, OK
Butterfield Memorial Foundation

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $36,586 · typical grant $10,000 to $14,586 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as One By One Ministries

67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

1 grant for buildings or equipment

Funded: Student confernce re; Ou chapter support; Equipment
Public charity · New Haven, CT
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc.

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $37,825 · typical grant $9,850 to $14,050 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville

67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Donation to promote the culture of life program
Private foundation · Columbia, SC
The Smith Family Foundation

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $10,000 · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2023)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 2 Tennessee grants, such as Golden Cross Senior Ministries

Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Private foundation · Winston Salem, NC
Reynolds American Foundation

Takes applications

3 Tennessee grants totaling $2,307 · typical grant $51 to $1,256 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Dare for More Ministries Inc.

100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

Funded: Charitable activtities; Scholarships
Public charity · Palo Alto, CA
Freewill Impact Fund

How to apply: not stated

3 Tennessee grants totaling $153,056 · typical grant $8,558 to $130,275 (tax year 2024)

Has funded groups like yours (church or faith-based group): 1 Tennessee grant, such as Gospel Ministries International Inc.

67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

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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.