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179 foundations that funded “Project”

  1. 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...

  2. Private foundation · Signal Mountain

    Bishop Family Foundation

    Takes applications

    10 Tennessee grants totaling $640,000 · typical grant $30,000 to $90,000 (tax year 2025)

    60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Recovery in community campaign; Clef medical camps campaign; Stability program; Truck for project restore; South Chattanooga program

  3. Private foundation · Knoxville

    Valentine Foundation Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    8 Tennessee grants totaling $77,500 · typical grant $10,000 to $15,000 (tax year 2025)

    62% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    5 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: General operating funding.; Funding for the outdoor construction of a flatiron facility.; Partial funding of the painting project.; Partial funding for assistance in purchasing...

  4. Private foundation · Houston, TX

    Stoller Foundation

    Takes applications

    8 Tennessee grants totaling $1.1 million · typical grant $24,000 to $185,000 (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Operations and other grants; Ministry; Discretionary grant; Project chandan; Mission grant

  5. Public charity · Oakland, CA

    Solidaire Network Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    5 Tennessee grants totaling $455,000 · typical grant $40,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Movement support of Community Defense of East Tennessee.; Movement support of People's Advocacy Institute; General support of Black Mycelium Project; General support of...

  6. Public charity · Nashville

    Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau

    How to apply: not stated

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $1.8 million · typical grant $10,000 to $1 million (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    2 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Capital maintenance of this historic President's home, a popular visitor attraction; Capital maintenance of this public art project; To assist with the production of the Music...

  7. 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)

    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...

  8. Public charity · New York, NY

    Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund

    How to apply: not stated

    3 Tennessee grants totaling $83,500 · typical grant $10,000 to $47,500 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Community safety fund innovation grant; To provide funding to support domestic violence prevention work; To support the be smart evaluation project

  9. Private foundation · New York, NY

    Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $337,500 · typical grant $62,500 to $275,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Using implementation science to reduce health disparities in youth & families: a university-federally qualified health center partnership; To support the project "disrupting...

  10. Private foundation · Atlanta, GA

    Georgia Power Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $85,500 · typical grant $1,500 to $84,000 (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

    Funded: Feeding programs for whitfield county, georgia; Veteran employment and health and wellness project

  11. Community foundation · Phoenix, AZ

    Arizona Community Foundation

    How to apply: not stated · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply

    11 Tennessee grants totaling $1 million · typical grant $15,000 to $180,000 (tax year 2024)

    45% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: This award is for general support; This award is designated for general support; This award is for the vision project; This award is designated support for the north davidson...

  12. Public charity · Memphis

    Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation

    How to apply: not stated

    14 Tennessee grants totaling $6.1 million · typical grant $29,729 to $715,828 (tax year 2024)

    7% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Various medical and community programs; Various research studies; Scholarships & tuition deferral; Various community programs; Hospice house and bereavement center

  13. 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...

  14. Private foundation · Nashville

    James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    26 Tennessee grants totaling $2 million · typical grant $5,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    4 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Relief efforts in western north carolina and eastern Tennessee from hurricane helene; Recovery in community capital campaign; Capital fund support - new building; Fall bash -...

  15. Private foundation · Nashville

    Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    24 Tennessee grants totaling $8.7 million · typical grant $5,760 to $250,000 (tax year 2024)

    47% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    10 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Fra turner fellows; Capital support for new building; Capital support for building renovations - matching campaign; Recovery in community capital campaign; Fra turner fellows 2024-25

  16. Public charity · Clarksville

    Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation Inc.

    How to apply: not stated

    22 Tennessee grants totaling $2.7 million · typical grant $20,000 to $102,860 (tax year 2024)

    47% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Social services; Greenway development; Speech & swallowing; Food pantry; Med management

  17. Private foundation · Huntingdon

    Wright Charitable Trust

    Takes applications

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $155,431 · typical grant $5,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2025)

    12% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    2 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Arts Focus; Support and prevent child abuse; To meet the educational needs; Shooting Range; To build a children's playground

  18. Private foundation · Nashville

    Thackston Family Foundation

    Takes applications

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $96,500 · typical grant $2,500 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: Elevator repair; Scholarship; Gift to food bank; Historic place markers; Empower me daycamp

  19. Private foundation · New York, NY

    The Ford Foundation

    Takes applications

    14 Tennessee grants totaling $1.2 million · typical grant $375 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)

    57% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Matching gift; Core support for an exhibition by tabitha arnold on the history of workers rights and labor struggles in Chattanooga; Core support for peoples advocacy...

  20. Private foundation · Washington, DC

    Public Welfare Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    10 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · typical grant $100,000 to $200,000 (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    11% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Support for gideon's trumpet redux-continued; Support for justice, not just surviving; Support for mississippi prison reform coalition; Support for towards a people's justice;...

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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.