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36 foundations that funded “Riser Foundation”

  1. Public charity · Nashville

    Riser Foundation

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    3 Tennessee grants totaling $110,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)

  2. Private foundation · Oxford, NY

    Tallahatchie River Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $3,584 · typical grant $3,584 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    Funded only returning groups in its latest year

  3. Private foundation · St Petersburg, FL

    Dwayne Hawkins Family Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    4 Tennessee grants totaling $28,100 · typical grant $2,500 to $15,000 (tax year 2024)

    75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: River city run (Chattanooga); Dustin ledford scholarship; General donation; Gala 2024

  4. Public charity · Portland, OR

    Bonneville Environmental Foundation

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    2 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · typical grant $519,000 to $738,628 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Project services soil health work in the red river watershed project & reforestation of previously mined lands project; San luis national wildlife refuge - blue goose unit...

  5. Private foundation · Richmond, VA

    Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation

    Takes applications

    2 Tennessee grants totaling $52,500 · typical grant $2,500 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Ducks unlimited south carolina lowcountry program fy25; Hammock river restoration

  6. Private foundation · Memphis

    Formanek Foundation

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    15 Tennessee grants totaling $5.5 million · typical grant $40,000 to $600,000 (tax year 2024)

    27% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: To promote the provision of visual art medium through diverse exhibits; To support the provision of health care for underinsured people; To improve Memphis by the revival of...

  7. 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

  8. Private foundation · Knoxville

    Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc.

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    91 Tennessee grants totaling $835,534 · typical grant $1,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2025)

    20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    3 grants for buildings or equipment

    Funded: General donation; Hope gala; Knoxville go red for women luncheon + kids cook with heart program; Annual golf tournament; 2025 - niswonger radiothon sponsorship

  9. Private foundation · Nashville

    T & T Family Foundation

    Takes applications

    70 Tennessee grants totaling $467,000 · typical grant $2,000 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    7% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    1 grant for buildings or equipment

    Funded: General funds; Madison campus; General funds, Nashville area; Academic remediation for disadvantaged students; Helping individuals with beginning again (ged + daycare while learning)

  10. Private foundation · Ada, MI

    Vogt 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

  11. Private foundation · Los Angeles, CA

    Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $30,000 · typical grant $30,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Community programming support

  12. Private foundation · Atlanta, GA

    Cousins Properties Foundation Inc.

    Takes applications

    1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  13. Private foundation · Wilmington, DE

    Robinson Foundation

    Takes applications

    16 Tennessee grants totaling $1.6 million · typical grant $5,000 to $25,000 (tax year 2024)

    67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Foster Child Bag of Love fund; For 3 Christmas gifts per club member, a new coat for each club member, educational supplies, field trips, youth of the year program; 8 x 8 shed...

  14. Public charity · Lincoln, NE

    National Arbor Day Foundation

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    7 Tennessee grants totaling $207,950 · typical grant $5,000 to $37,500 (tax year 2024)

    29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Encourage and facilitate the adoption of leading-edge practices in municipal forests including inventory, planting, maintenance and education.

  15. Private foundation · Halls

    Eleanor and Warren Nunn Foundation

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $237,000 · typical grant $27,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2025)

    No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing

    20% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Public education donation

  16. Private foundation · Houston, TX

    H Fort Flowers Foundation

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    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

  17. Private foundation · Lincoln, NE

    Herbert T Weston Jr and Marian S Weston Foundation

    Takes applications

    6 Tennessee grants totaling $75,000 · typical grant $3,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  18. Private foundation · Taylorsville, NC

    The Griffin Foundation

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

    50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

    Funded: Religious; Philanthropic

  19. Private foundation · Smithville, MO

    Stanley M Herzog Charitable Foundation

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    5 Tennessee grants totaling $29,000 · typical grant $5,000 to $7,375 (tax year 2024)

    100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

  20. Public charity · Independence, OH

    Peyback Foundation Inc.

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    8 Tennessee grants totaling $90,000 · typical grant $10,000 (tax year 2024)

    12% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it

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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.