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244 foundations that funded “Schools Foundation”
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Private foundation · Prairie Du Sac, WI
Culver's Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $15,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship(s) for recipient(s) paid directly to school
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Private foundation · Dickson
Goodlark Educational Foundation
Takes applications
8 Tennessee grants totaling $227,605 · typical grant $5,000 to $14,500 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Music scholarships; Educational scholarships; School supplies - needy families; Education scholarships in the five c; Mentorship-needy performing students
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Public charity · Pittsburgh, PA
The Pittsburgh Foundation
How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
5 Tennessee grants totaling $186,340 · typical grant $24,507 to $32,500 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Children and youth healthcare; Primary and elementary schools; Professional societies and associations; Religious education; Higher education
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Private foundation · Knoxville
Clayton Family Foundation
Takes applications
40 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $2,500 to $12,500 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
3 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Church general fund; K-12 school; Community health services; Scholarship fund; Dance school transportation
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Private foundation · Montpelier, VT
National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
6 Tennessee grants totaling $21,800 · typical grant $200 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Mar 31 · next Mar 31, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Hospital; School; Nature conservancy; Animal protection
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Private foundation · Germantown
Myron Lewis Foundation
Takes applications
5 Tennessee grants totaling $31,145 · typical grant $5,000 to $7,275 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: The myron lewis foundation donated monies to the Memphis jewish federation to help with operations; The myron lewis foundation donated monies to st. Mary's episcopal school to...
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Alfred P Sloan Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $249,418 · typical grant $25,000 to $194,418 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: To help bring financial and investment literacy to diverse high school girls by providing access, support, and guidance through training, mentorship, and networking; To develop...
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Private foundation · Houston, TX
H Fort Flowers Foundation
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $11,000 · typical grant $1,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Unrestricted donation; For school of engineering joseph and lori flowers scholarship
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Private foundation · Ogden, UT
Ascent Credit Union Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $2,500 · typical grant $2,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Purchase of education materials and classes for students at Ogden High School
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Private foundation · Knoxville
East Tennessee Cardiovascularresearch Foundation
Takes applications
6 Tennessee grants totaling $60,000 · typical grant $1,500 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To support innovative and interdisciplinary neuroscience research for mental health.; Support heart surgery in jimani for haitian children.; To support the mission of mental...
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Public charity · Nashville
Nashville Public Education Foundation
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $15,000 · typical grant $5,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Support of music programs and united way employee giving gifts; 2024 public schools hall of fame honoree
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Private foundation · Nashville
Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundation
Takes applications
79 Tennessee grants totaling $363,500 · typical grant $2,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
43% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support charity; To support school; Underwriting support for spring outi
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Kennedy Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
9 Tennessee grants totaling $2.2 million · typical grant $25,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2025)
75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: To support a public charity; To provide funding for a professorship; To fund a new building for the nursing school
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Public charity · Jackson
Leaders Education Foundation Inc.
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $33,500 · typical grant $6,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Allowed united way's read team program to assist students with reading initiatives and give books to elementary school-aged children; The education connection (formerly...
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Private foundation · Nashville
The Frist Foundation
Letter first
128 Tennessee grants totaling $32.2 million · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
42% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
15 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: General support directed by lauren elcan ingram; Operating support for 2024; General support directed by julie and tommy frist; General support directed by jennifer and billy...
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Private foundation · Ooltewah
Tucker Foundation
Takes applications
60 Tennessee grants totaling $4.3 million · typical grant $5,000 to $30,000 (tax year 2024)
31% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship - evan moore; Scholarship fund; Relay for life; Pups4patriots Tennessee; General support - imagine arts education initiative
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Private foundation · Athens
Athens Federal Foundation
Takes applications
43 Tennessee grants totaling $314,160 · typical grant $3,010 to $8,000 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Jun 1 · next Jun 1, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
62% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
9 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Purchase books for Imagination Library program; Purchase of food for food pantry; Recruitment, screening and training for volunteer advocates; Funding to stock clothing and...
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Private foundation · Germantown
Agape North Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
12 Tennessee grants totaling $72,100 · typical grant $2,000 to $7,500 (tax year 2023)
Funded: Assisting with necessaryapparel for thechildren; Assisting with necessaryapparel for the children; Serve adoptive and fosterchildren and familiesproviding holistic care.;...
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Community foundation · Nashville
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
How to apply: not stated
1,155 Tennessee grants totaling $69.8 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
46% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
55 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Delek us corporate support from Brentwood committee; For program enhancements and equipment to increase capacity, strengthen quality and promote compliance with licensing...
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Private foundation · Knoxville
The Siddiqi Charitable Foundation
Takes applications
22 Tennessee grants totaling $421,025 · typical grant $5,500 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Jun 30 · next Jun 30, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
45% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Education; Academic programs; School garden program; Mental health program; Money for local community food pantr
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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.