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54 foundations that funded “Educational Foundation Excellence”
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Private foundation · Fayetteville
Creek Bed Foundation
Takes applications
4 Tennessee grants totaling $135,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational opportunity for afghan g; Facilitating opportunities for young; Legal expenses challenging gravel pi; Landscaping costs-centennial park
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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)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational
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Private foundation · Raleigh, NC
Elizabeth City Foundation Committee
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $5,200 · typical grant $2,300 to $2,900 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Mar 1, Mar 15, Sep 15 · next Mar 1, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Educational
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Private foundation · Ft Washington, PA
Joseph Alexander Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $25,000 · typical grant $25,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational
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Private foundation · Peoria, IL
Cline-Lofftus Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $500 · typical grant $500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Educational
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Private foundation · Falls Church, FL
Beckett Charitable Foundation
How to apply: not stated
1 Tennessee grant totaling $25,000 · typical grant $25,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Educational Fund
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Private foundation · San Antonio, TX
Barrett Family Foundation
How to apply: not stated
1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,600 · typical grant $1,600 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational
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Private foundation · Catoosa, OK
The Anna C Vierheller Education Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $9,356 · typical grant $9,356 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support educational opportunities
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Private foundation · Winona, TX
Hiawatha Education Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $60,000 · typical grant $60,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Mar 25, Jun 25, Sep 25, Dec 25 · next Dec 25, 2026 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Educational programs
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Private foundation · Dallas, TX
The Columbus Phipps Foundation
Takes applications
6 Tennessee grants totaling $124,500 · typical grant $2,000 to $44,500 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: May 15, Jun 15 · next May 15, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
17% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational grants
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Public charity · Memphis
Independent Presbyterian Church Foundation Inc.
How to apply: not stated
2 Tennessee grants totaling $68,138 · typical grant $23,000 to $45,138 (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational assistance
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Incorporated
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $23,000 · typical grant $8,000 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Toward expenses of the educational enrichment programs, to advance job readiness, career development and pre-k readiness for economically vulnerable women and children.; Toward...
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Private foundation · Bryn Mawr, PA
Joseph P Heenan Family Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $6,250 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,250 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational
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Private foundation · Honolulu, HI
Chung Kun Ai Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $4,000 · typical grant $4,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Educational scholarship vanderbilt university
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Public charity · Washington, DC
The Links Foundation Incorporated
How to apply: not stated
5 Tennessee grants totaling $350,652 · typical grant $19,975 to $85,455 (tax year 2024)
20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship & community charitable and educational programs; Community scholarship & programs; Chapter educational programs
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Private foundation · Wayne, PA
E Newbold & Margaret Dupont Smith Foundation
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $55,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2023)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Futhur educational purpose; Further educational purposes
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Private foundation · Wood Dale, IL
Nippon Express Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,400 · typical grant $1,400 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Support for Educational Programs in Japanese
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Private foundation · Greenwich, CT
The Walter and Monica Noel Family Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Educational
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Private foundation · Memphis
Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc.
Takes applications
41 Tennessee grants totaling $2.1 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Religion; Educational; Human service; Health, general; Housing, shelter
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Private foundation · Los Angeles, CA
Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Foundation
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $6,000 · typical grant $3,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Payment for educational purposes
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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.