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Tennessee state
Tennessee Arts Commission · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Due Jan 15, 2027 · 96 days left
- Award
- Up to $5,000
Should we apply? · Get ready
Unrestricted $5,000 fellowships for professional artists who live and work in Tennessee, in craft, media, visual art, dance, music, theatre, and literary arts. No project or match is required; students and minors are not eligible.
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Education foundation
McGraw Center for Business Journalism (CUNY Newmark) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 12, 2026 · 1 day left
- Award
- Up to $15K
- In Tennessee
- No match
- Only 1 day left to apply
Grants up to $15,000 help experienced journalists report big stories about money, business, or the economy. You do not need to be a business reporter. Freelancers may use part of the grant as a living stipend.
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Education foundation
Grow Appalachia (Berea College), Appalachian Studies Association and Mid Atlantic Arts · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jul 10 – Aug 17, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $5,000
Should we apply? · Get ready
- Local program: Anderson County, Bledsoe County, Blount County, Bradley County and 48 more counties
- No match
This fellowship gives $5,000 to people who keep Appalachian food traditions alive. Cooks, bakers, seed savers, farmers, hunters and foragers can apply for their own work. You must live in an Appalachian county and be 18 or older.
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Education foundation
MIT Solve · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 2, 2026 · 22 days left
- Award
- From $10K
Solve wants tech-enabled work for and with Indigenous communities in the US and Canada. Every team picked gets a $10,000 grant, and some win larger prizes. Nonprofits, companies and individuals may apply.
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Nonprofit
Newberry Library · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 15, 2027 · 96 days left
- Award
- Up to $3,000
Gives artists and writers a $3,000 stipend and research space to use the Newberry Library's collections for a creative project. It is open to visual and performing artists, authors, cartoonists, journalists, playwrights, and filmmakers. Studio space is not...
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Nonprofit
National Geographic Society (with Lindblad Expeditions) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 22, 2026 · 11 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- In Tennessee
- Only 11 days left to apply
Full-time pre-K to 12 teachers can apply for a paid field trip aboard a National Geographic-Lindblad ship. Fellows bring what they learn back to students. Applications close October 22, 2026.
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Nonprofit
Center for Craft · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Feb 25 – May 20, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $5,000
Should we apply? · Get ready
Four researchers or artists get $5,000 each to study craft history in an archive of their choice. It focuses on craft histories that have been left out, such as Black, Indigenous, Latinx or queer makers.
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Foundation
Fund for Teachers (local partners: Public Education Forward Chattanooga and Bradley/Cleveland Public Education Foundation) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 21, 2027 · 102 days left
- Award
- Up to $10K
Grants for experienced PreK-12 teachers to design their own summer learning experience, at home or abroad, and bring it back to the classroom. In Hamilton County, Bradley County and Cleveland, the local education foundations help teachers prepare proposals.
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Federal
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $700K
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- 57 past Tennessee awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to make 52 awards of up to $700,000.
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Foundation
James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Opens in the fall (no exact date yet)
- Award
- Up to $15K
Should we apply? · Get ready
Gives mid-career historic preservation professionals up to $15,000 for original research or a design project. Fields include architecture, landscape, planning and architectural history. The project must help preservation in the U.S.
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Nonprofit
Activate · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 30, 2026 · 19 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Activate backs first-time founders building hard-science hardware. Fellows get a $100,000 yearly living stipend and up to $100,000 for research. The Anywhere track lets you stay in Tennessee.
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Foundation
Wenner-Gren Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 15, 2026 · 4 days left
- Award
- Up to $80K
- In Tennessee
- No match
- Only 4 days left to apply
Gives $80,000 for nine months of writing a book on anthropology for general readers. Applicants need an anthropology PhD earned within 15 years. Independent scholars are encouraged to apply.
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Foundation
Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 20, 2026 · 40 days left
- Award
- Up to $100K
Two-year research fellowships on ADHD or depression in children. Each award is $50,000 a year. Your department chair picks who applies.
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Nonprofit
Camelback Ventures · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens typically in mid-winter and late summer (no exact date yet)
- Award
- Up to $50K
Should we apply? · Get ready
A 16-week accelerator for early-stage founders fighting inequity in education and technology. Fellows get $50,000, coaching and a peer group. Founders must live in the US.
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Nonprofit
American Diabetes Association · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Feb 2 – Apr 30, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $294K
Should we apply? · Get ready
These fellowships pay a postdoctoral researcher's salary and training costs for up to three years of diabetes research. The fellow must work at a U.S. university-affiliated or nonprofit research institution.
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Federal
National Institutes of Health · Department of Health and Human Services · Open
- Deadline
- Accepts applications through Jan 7, 2028. Rounds may close sooner: check the notice
- Award
- Amount not specified
- In Tennessee
- No match
- 71 past Tennessee awards
A grant from National Institutes of Health. Open to many kinds of groups. See who can apply.
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Foundation
Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund and Simons Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Feb 1, 2027 · 113 days left
- Award
- Up to $450K
Three-year awards for new neuroscience faculty within four years of their postdoc. Each fellow gets $150,000 a year. The applicant needs a tenure-track job at a U.S. institution.
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Foundation
Simons Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 12, 2026 · 32 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Institutional grants that give junior tenure-track HBCU faculty more research time. Each HBCU may nominate up to four fellows in math, neuroscience, physics, or ecology and evolution.
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Health foundation
Arthritis Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 27, 2026 · 16 days left
- Award
- $150K – $300K
Pays for rheumatology fellowship training slots at teaching hospitals and universities. Adult, pediatric and med-peds programs can apply. A letter of intent comes first.
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Federal
Office of Science · Department of Energy - Office of Science · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 12, 2027 · 93 days left
- Award
- Up to $20M
- In Tennessee
- No match
- 83 past Tennessee awards
Office of Science expects to make 5 awards of up to $20 million. Open to private college or university or public college or university.
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