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40 foundations that funded “Campaign”
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Public charity · Beaverton, OR
Campaign for Great Public Schools
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $425,000 · typical grant $75,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To provide general support; To support its non-political and social welfare activities around community leadership development and training; To support general operating...
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Private foundation · Nashville
The Fugitive Foundation
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41 Tennessee grants totaling $237,950 · typical grant $1,000 to $7,000 (tax year 2024)
20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Capital campaign & operating support
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Private foundation · Bells
Covenant Legacy Foundation
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14 Tennessee grants totaling $484,744 · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)
21% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Capital Campaign and Unrestricted Support
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Private foundation · Jackson
H&m Foundation
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12 Tennessee grants totaling $127,500 · typical grant $5,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Capital Campaign
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Private foundation · Jackson
James E Campbell Family Foundation
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8 Tennessee grants totaling $462,700 · typical grant $6,000 to $159,100 (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Capital campaign and unrestricted operations; Century Fund and Unrestricted operations
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Private foundation · Fair Oaks, TX
The Gorman Foundation
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7 Tennessee grants totaling $80,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)
43% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Annual campaign; To support the oca homeschool group; Funding support for ats the bridge
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Private foundation · Jackson
Farris Family Foundation
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $49,800 · typical grant $3,000 to $16,400 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Capital Campaign
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Private foundation · Mequon, WI
Nicholas Family Foundation Trust
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Annual campaign. Dedicated to providing the best care for patients and research that leads to cures.
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Private foundation · Signal Mountain
Bishop Family Foundation
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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
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Private foundation · Boynton Beach, FL
Nat R & Martha M Knaster Charitable Trust
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8 Tennessee grants totaling $85,500 · typical grant $5,000 to $17,000 (tax year 2024)
14% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Unrestricted $10,000now campaign beta pi chapter $2,500; College fund for haslam business school at university of Tennessee; Haslam facility expense fund for new business...
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Public charity · New Orleans, LA
Igivecatholic
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $145,213 · typical grant $40,681 to $52,565 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Participant in the #igivecatholic campaign
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Public charity · Amherst, MA
Peace Development Fund
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $20,000 · typical grant $10,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Grundy County Capital Campaign
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Private foundation · Fort Wayne, IN
Steel Dynamics Foundation Inc.
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $100,000 · typical grant $100,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Spark expansion campaign
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Private foundation · Lebanon
Community Progress Committee Inc.
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,390 · typical grant $5,390 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded: Ignite the vision campaign
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Private foundation · Nashville
Angel Corps
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15 Tennessee grants totaling $369,277 · typical grant $1,200 to $6,077 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Community fundraising; Together campaign
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Public charity · Denison, TX
Texoma Health Foundation
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $80,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
40% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Program/project support; Annual campaign
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Private foundation · New Orleans, LA
The Almar Foundationdba the Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $17,500 · typical grant $2,000 to $4,000 (tax year 2025)
80% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
2 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: Equipment for Program; Capital Campaign
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Private foundation · Fort Worth, TX
Ken W Davis Foundation
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $100,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Dec 31 · next Dec 31, 2026 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
1 grant for buildings or equipment
Funded: Restoration for self-trafficking; Building project - capital campaign
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Private foundation · Nashville
James Stephen Turner Family Foundation Inc.
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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 -...
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Private foundation · New York, NY
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
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6 Tennessee grants totaling $827,500 · typical grant $125,000 to $150,000 (tax year 2024)
80% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
2 grants for buildings or equipment
Funded: To support general operations; To support the New Art Museum for Memphis capital campaign; To support the School of Nursings micro-credentialing program and the TV News...
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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.