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840 foundations that funded “Children”
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Private foundation · Salem, VA
Duncan Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $500 · typical grant $500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Childrens hospital
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Private foundation · Port Orange, FL
Giving A Reason for Hope Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $14,000 · typical grant $14,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Childrenshealth research
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Private foundation · Pekin, IL
Hedden Charitable Trust
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Childrens Hospital
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Private foundation · Gainesville, GA
The Jinks Private Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,500 · typical grant $2,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Childrens health research
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Private foundation · Lebanon
Jim Horne & Evelyn S Hankins Foundation
Takes applications
29 Tennessee grants totaling $195,500 · typical grant $5,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
7% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Assist children in the community; Provide programs and activities for seniors; Provide housing for families with children receiving medical treatment; Affordable tuition...
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Private foundation · Memphis
John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust
Takes applications
19 Tennessee grants totaling $1.4 million · typical grant $20,000 to $60,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded: Benefit children; 2023 grant request; Grant requested; Benefit charity; Public benefit
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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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Private foundation · St Charles, IL
The Renaissance Foundation Co Thomas E Rosensteel
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,527 · typical grant $1,527 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Helping children
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Private foundation · Blountville
Danpaul Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $20,000 · typical grant $20,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support children's art through progr
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Private foundation · Bloomfield Hills, MI
Adray Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Support children's medical research
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Private foundation · Waymart, PA
The Grimm Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $350 · typical grant $350 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Dec 31 · next Dec 31, 2026 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Support-childrens medical research
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Public charity · Nashville
Nashville Predators Foundation
How to apply: not stated
58 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $6,553 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)
71% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
10 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Fy24-25 donation, general purposes; Fy24-25 hfc donation: donation for pediatric rehabilitation project + general purposes; Funding for thrive studios, which empowers children...
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Public charity · Johnson City
Mountain States Health Alliance
How to apply: not stated
13 Tennessee grants totaling $924,073 · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
73% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Program support for children in the court system; Substandard Housing Program; Pediatrics Conference; Program Support-Center for Nursing Excellence; Program Support-College of Pharmacy
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Private foundation · Allentown, PA
Air Products Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $4,800 · typical grant $800 to $2,500 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Wine women & shoes benefiting ballad health foundation; Volunteer welding supply golf classic - benefiting st. Jude children's research hospital; Delta techops engine...
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Private foundation · Wakefield, MA
Knopf Family Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $110,000 · typical grant $35,000 to $75,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: To help provide exceptional care for children battling medulloblastoma, brain tumor cancer and to help researchers, who are working on it to better understand what causes it;...
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Public charity · Billings, MT
Care Camps Foundation
How to apply: not stated
2 Tennessee grants totaling $19,000 · typical grant $9,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Assistance for children with cancer to attend camp
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Public charity · Nashville
The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc.
How to apply: not stated
2 Tennessee grants totaling $48,500 · typical grant $20,000 to $28,500 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To help equip children and their families with skills necessary to achieve success; To spread love and awareness for the wonderful people living with down syndrome
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Private foundation · Red Lion, PA
Bruce R & Madelyn G Snyder Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $20,000 · typical grant $20,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To find cures for children with cancer and other life threatening diseases
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Private foundation · Vero Beach, FL
James and Theresa Nolan Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,000 · typical grant $2,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: General contribution made to st jude's children hospital to assist the organization achieve thier mission of hepling children with cancer and other deadly diseases-
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Private foundation · Overland Park, KS
Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,000 · typical grant $4,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Dec 31 · next Dec 31, 2026 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To provide children affected by limb loss with the prostheses they need throughout childhood and adolescence and serving as a caring resource, advocate and support system for...
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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.