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5 foundations that funded “Seattle Foundation”
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
Joshua Green Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
5 Tennessee grants totaling $20,500 · typical grant $3,000 to $5,000 (tax year 2024)
No fixed deadline, per its 2024 IRS filing
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: General fund donation
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
The Norcliffe Foundation
Takes applications
3 Tennessee grants totaling $650,500 · typical grant $500 to $500,000 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 2025 our wetlands matching challenge; Conservation legacy match challenge
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
The Abelard Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $15,000 · typical grant $15,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
The Conru Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $50,000 · typical grant $50,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Seattle, WA
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Takes applications
18 Tennessee grants totaling $8.2 million · typical grant $125,000 to $606,651 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: K-12 education; Public awareness and analysis; Pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; K-12 education; postsecondary education; public awareness and analysis; Postsecondary education
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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.