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20 foundations that funded “Rhode”
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Private foundation · Radnor, PA
E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $120,000 · typical grant $35,000 to $85,000 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Jan 31, Jul 15 · next Jan 31, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: To help with the cost of the exhibition, "suchitra mattai: phala,its related programming.; Fund scholarships and stipends for three students completing a three-year master of...
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Private foundation · Arlington, VA
Washington Forrest Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,960 · typical grant $3,960 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Rhodes women's lacrosse
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Association of Universities for Research
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $142,364 · typical grant $5,809 to $78,719 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scientific research on data from hubble space telescope and/or james webb space telescope
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Freeman Foundation P-01644-00-7
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $77,500 · typical grant $25,000 to $52,500 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Minneapolis, MN
Everett L Amis Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $12,000 · typical grant $12,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Scholarship fund
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Private foundation · Raleigh, NC
C Hamilton Sloan Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Education
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Private foundation · Mobile, AL
The Moses Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $250 · typical grant $250 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Operating expenses
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Private foundation · Saint Louis, NV
Adams Arthur & Alice Fdn
Takes applications
4 Tennessee grants totaling $133,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Feb 15 · next Feb 15, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Atlanta, GA
The Endover Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
2 Tennessee grants totaling $10,000 · typical grant $5,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Education
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Private foundation · Chicago, IL
The Spencer Foundation
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $158,300 · typical grant $48,422 to $109,878 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Can mentoring improve adolescent girls' educational outcomes?; Bilingual book clubs
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Private foundation · Shreveport, LA
Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation
Takes applications
12 Tennessee grants totaling $24,500 · typical grant $500 to $3,000 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Jan 5, Jul 21 · next Jan 5, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Operating expenses; Program services; Operating expense
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Public charity · El Segundo, CA
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
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9 Tennessee grants totaling $375,490 · typical grant $10,316 to $67,428 (tax year 2025)
44% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To provide scholarships for students
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Public charity · Washington, DC
Council of Independent Colleges
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8 Tennessee grants totaling $226,342 · typical grant $20,000 to $51,551 (tax year 2024)
62% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Grants to colleges
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Public charity · Washington, DC
American Chemical Society
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6 Tennessee grants totaling $352,106 · typical grant $20,535 to $74,160 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Atlanta, GA
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc.
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16 Tennessee grants totaling $3.5 million · typical grant $133,000 to $308,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: For general scholarship support.; For nursing scholarships.; For nursing and allied health scholarships.; For general and nursing scholarships.
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Private foundation · Dyersburg
Brayton Foundation
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10 Tennessee grants totaling $5,100 · typical grant $100 to $900 (tax year 2025)
10% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Unrestricted use donation; Scholarship
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Private foundation · Memphis
The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation
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52 Tennessee grants totaling $1.9 million · typical grant $10,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)
Stated deadlines: Jan 15, Aug 15 · next Jan 15, 2027 (from its 2024 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: General - operating
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Private foundation · Chattanooga
Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation
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48 Tennessee grants totaling $171,417 · typical grant $1,500 to $4,500 (tax year 2024)
2% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Unrestricted grant
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Public charity · Owasso, OK
Folds of Honor Foundation
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47 Tennessee grants totaling $1.7 million · typical grant $9,040 to $32,330 (tax year 2025)
85% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Scholarship
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Community foundation · New York, NY
The New York Community Trust
Ask before applying · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
44 Tennessee grants totaling $1.4 million · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
41% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: For program support.; For a scholarship award.
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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.