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Federal
Rural Business-Cooperative Service · Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 31, 2027 · 111 days left
- Award
- $600K – $1M
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Rural Business-Cooperative Service expects to make 3 awards of $600,000 to $1 million. Open to many kinds of groups. See who can apply.
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Nonprofit
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $5,000
Nonprofit groups and colleges can get up to $5,000 for Japanese teacher workshops or projects that help many schools. Apply two months before the project starts. Projects must end by March 31, 2027.
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Corporate
Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $50K
The Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation funds equipment and training for first responders, plus military, veteran, and other nonprofit groups. The portal opens at 2 p.m. Eastern on October 8, 2026, and takes only 600 applications per quarter. Average...
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Corporate
Norfolk Southern · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Only near the company's Tennessee sites. Check the program page
This program gives Norfolk Southern materials, not cash, to groups with projects that match the company's focus areas. It is open all year with no deadline. Apply online through the Norfolk Southern grant programs page.
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Corporate
BNSF Railway · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Only near the company's Tennessee sites. Check the program page
The BNSF Railway Foundation funds groups near BNSF rail lines, with preference for environment, health and human services, public safety and STEM education. Public charity 501(c)(3)s, first responders and local government divisions can apply online....
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Utility / co-op
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA EnergyRight) · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Amount not specified
A free year-long energy-efficiency program for public and private K-12 schools in the TVA region; participating schools compete within their cohort for grants to fund energy upgrades. Enrollment is open for the 2027-28 school-year cohort.
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Utility / co-op
Tri-State EMC Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $10K
- Local program: Polk County
Tri-State EMC members' round-up donations fund grants for charitable needs in the co-op's three counties, including Polk County, Tennessee. Awards are generally capped at $10,000 a year per organization.
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Local
EDGE (Economic Development Growth Engine for Memphis & Shelby County) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $25K
- Local program: Shelby County
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Three-year forgivable loans that work like grants for façade, storefront and streetscape improvements to businesses in Memphis inner-city neighborhood business districts; interior work may also qualify. An EDGE-retained architect helps prepare plans, and...
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Foundation
Maury Regional Health Care Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Lewis County, Marshall County, Maury County, Wayne County
The hospital foundation funds health and wellness programs and services offered by public agencies and 501(c)(3) groups in Maury Regional Health's southern Middle Tennessee service area; it does not fund sponsorships. Requests over $1,000 go to an...
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Community foundation
The Generosity Trust (Young Givers Circle) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 3, 2026 · 22 days left
- Award
- Up to $5,000
- Local program: Hamilton County
A Christian young-adult giving circle in Chattanooga that awards one $5,000 grant each quarter for a specific one-time need at a small or mid-sized nonprofit or church. Leaders choose three finalists, who pitch to members for a vote.
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Foundation
Jim Horne & Evelyn S. Hankins Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Wilson County
This Lebanon-based foundation gives grants to charities, mostly in Wilson County. There is no deadline. Contact the trustee listed on its GrantMe funder page (from its IRS tax return) to ask.
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Federal
Bureau of Land Management · Department of the Interior · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 16, 2026 · 4 days left
- Award
- $30K – $220K
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- Only 4 days left to apply
Bureau of Land Management expects to make 8 awards of $30,000 to $220,000. Open to many kinds of groups. See who can apply.
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 19, 2026 · 38 days left
- Award
- Up to $5M
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Pays for work that gets industrial sites ready for employers, such as roads, utilities, grading, due diligence studies, brownfield cleanup, and publicly owned speculative buildings. A local government or industrial development board applies, and its share...
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 30, 2026 · 18 days left
- Award
- Up to $400K
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Helps water and sewer systems in distressed counties, or on the state's financially distressed utility list, pay for mapping, modeling, system analysis, asset management plans, and regionalization studies. The studies are meant to set up future CDBG, SRF,...
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Supplies the local match for economically distressed or at-risk communities that are applying for a large federal or state grant they could not otherwise afford to match. Communities apply to TNECD before submitting the main application and receive a...
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 30, 2026 · 79 days left
- Award
- Up to $1M
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Larger cost-share grants for agriculture, food, and forestry business projects with at least $2 million in capital spending that benefit other producers. The grant can cover no more than a quarter of the project budget.
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Tennessee state
TN Office of Criminal Justice Programs (Dept. of Finance & Administration) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 19, 2026 · 7 days left
- Award
- Up to $100K
- In Tennessee
- Only 7 days left to apply
Equipment grants that help domestic violence shelters already funded by OCJP prepare for and respond to disasters. Personnel and travel costs are not allowed.
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Tennessee state
TN Office of Criminal Justice Programs (Dept. of Finance & Administration) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $200K
State grants for local governments that run jails housing state inmates to offer proven re-entry, education, and vocational programs that reduce repeat offending.
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Tennessee state
Tennessee Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 50 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- 25 past Tennessee awards
Federal Clean Water Act Section 319 money, administered by TDA, for watershed restoration projects that install best management practices in impaired streams and for nonpoint source pollution education. The grant pays about 60% and the grantee covers 40%...
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 5, 2026 · 24 days left
- Award
- From $100K
One-time state money to buy, build or renovate permanent affordable housing for Tennesseans with mental illness or substance use disorders who are coming home from prison or jail or were previously incarcerated. Requests start at $100,000, and the housing...
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