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2,917 foundations
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Private foundation · Camden, SC
Wateree Floodlands Memorial Forest
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $20,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support the operations of the org; To promote gospel music; Alleviate poverty
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Private foundation · Haviland, OH
Samaritan Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $120,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Altamonte Springs, FL
Paula S Henson Foundation
Takes applications · Mostly scholarships for individuals
3 Tennessee grants totaling $56,000 · typical grant $2,000 to $51,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded: Medical Care; Christian Youth; Immigrant Education
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Public charity · Agawam, MA
The Harold Grinspoon Foundation
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $99,508 · typical grant $9,978 to $45,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Life & legacy grants; Pjl grants
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Public charity · Washington, DC
National 4-H Council
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $328,844 · typical grant $23,060 to $241,033 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Education
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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)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Outreach travel; Recovery housing
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Public charity · Arlington, VA
Public Broadcasting Service
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $45,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Manhasset, NY
Al & Peggy Dematteis Family Foundation
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $1,000 · typical grant $200 to $500 (tax year 2025)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: General charitable funding
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Private foundation · West Hartford, CT
General William Mayer Foundation
Takes applications · Mostly scholarships for individuals
3 Tennessee grants totaling $1,800 · typical grant $100 to $1,200 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Sep 15 · next Sep 15, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded: To further organization's outreach & service activities to its community.
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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)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Facilitate camps and activities in foreign countries for the organization's volunteers mission trips
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Private foundation · Ashland, MT
Auxiliary of Utu Scholarship Fund
Takes applications · Mostly scholarships for individuals
3 Tennessee grants totaling $3,600 · typical grant $1,200 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Mar 31 · next Mar 31, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded: College funding
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Public charity · San Francisco, CA
The Trust for Public Land
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $242,360 · typical grant $10,000 to $182,360 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Grants; Land conservation
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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 · Madison, WI
Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $60,250 · typical grant $250 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Avon bottoms wildlife area conservation; Beaver dam conservation project; Matching gift
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Private foundation · Purchase, NY
Central National Gottesman Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $23,000 · typical grant $1,500 to $20,000 (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: College tuition
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
Edmund F Maxwell Foundation
Takes applications · Mostly scholarships for individuals
3 Tennessee grants totaling $15,000 · typical grant $5,000 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: May 29 · next May 29, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded: University scholarship
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Public charity · Phoenix, AZ
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $1.5 million · typical grant $307,810 to $744,958 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Birmingham, AL
O'sullivan Family Charitable Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $65,000 · typical grant $15,000 to $35,000 (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Boston, MA
Comet Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $525,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $250,000 (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Education
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Public charity · Long Island City, NY
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc.
How to apply: not stated
3 Tennessee grants totaling $341,300 · typical grant $10,000 to $176,300 (tax year 2025)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Suicide prevention; community engagement; disaster relief; survey incentive; sponsorship; Suicide prevention; survey incentive; clinical mental health; Social connection &...
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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.