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Tennessee state
TN Department of Agriculture – Land and Water Stewardship Section · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
State cost-share incentive payments to Tennessee landowners for installing agricultural best management practices that cut water pollution, delivered mainly through county Soil and Water Conservation Districts, plus funding for water-quality education...
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Local
Adventure Science Center (Nashville) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Helps qualifying schools visit Adventure Science Center by paying for buses, free admission or add-on programs. Title I schools in Metro Nashville Public Schools and schools from rural counties may apply.
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Foundation or nonprofit
Friends of NRA / The NRA Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 22, 2026 · 72 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Equipment, supplies, and funding for shooting sports, firearm and hunting safety, marksmanship, and conservation programs. Tennessee committee recommends grants from funds raised at Tennessee events.
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Tennessee state
Tennessee Historical Commission · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 14, 2026 · 34 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Supports preservation, archaeology, interpretation, markers, and education about Tennessee sites tied to wars from the French and Indian War through the Civil War. Individuals, museums, schools, private organizations, and local governments can apply.
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Nonprofit
AdoptAClassroom.org · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 2, 2026 · 22 days left
- Award
- Up to $500
Teachers with a free AdoptAClassroom.org classroom page can apply for $500 grants for supplies. The fall round helps students in special education and English learners.
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Corporate
Delek US (Delek Fund for Hope, a component fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Bedford County, Cannon County, Cheatham County, Clay County and 37 more counties
Delek US employee-driven fund that grants to 501(c)(3) public charities where Delek does business, including the Middle Tennessee area. Requests are reviewed by a local Fund for Hope committee, then by the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. The...
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Education foundation
Berea College Appalachian Fund · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 19, 2026 · 8 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $25K
- Local program: Anderson County, Bledsoe County, Blount County, Bradley County and 29 more counties
- Only 8 days left to apply
Berea College gives grants to nonprofits that serve rural Appalachian counties, including East Tennessee. Money goes to health, education and social service programs. New groups must send a short inquiry form by October 10.
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Foundation
William Stamps Farish Fund · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
A Houston foundation that funds social services, health and education. It prefers the Houston area and gives a limited number of grants out of state. Recent out-of-state grants include several Nashville charities.
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Corporate
Meta · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 19, 2026 · 8 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Sumner County
- Only 8 days left to apply
Meta's Future is for Everyone Fund pays for education, community, job skills, and environment projects near its data centers, including Gallatin. Nonprofits, schools, community groups, and local governments in the area can apply. Applications are open...
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Nonprofit
ProLiteracy Worldwide · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Adult literacy programs can get free licenses for online learning tools for their students. Apply any time during the year until the money runs out. You must start using the tools within 30 days.
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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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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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Association
American Association of Physics Teachers · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 51 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Physics teachers who are AAPT members can get money for teaching equipment, traveling exhibits, or local teacher workshops. Costs are paid back with receipts after the activity.
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Local
Women's Fund of East Tennessee · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 31, 2026 · 20 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $15K
- Local program: Anderson County, Blount County, Campbell County, Carter County and 21 more counties
One-time grants to organizations whose programs help low-income women and girls in East Tennessee become self-sufficient. Money can go to program costs, staff, travel, materials or general operations, but generally not capital improvements.
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Federal
Economic Development Administration · Department of Commerce · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $50M
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- 67 past Tennessee awards
Economic Development Administration gives grants of up to $50 million. Open to many kinds of groups. See who can apply.
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Federal
Rural Utilities Service · Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 31, 2026 · 81 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- In Tennessee
- No match
- 18 past Tennessee awards
Rural Utilities Service expects to make 40 awards. Open to nonprofit with 501(c)(3).
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Federal
Rural Utilities Service · Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 31, 2026 · 81 days left
- Award
- Up to $1M
- In Tennessee
- No match
- 3 past Tennessee awards
Rural Utilities Service expects to make 40 awards of up to $1 million.
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Nonprofit
Project Lead The Way (PLTW) with Caterpillar Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 6, 2026 · 26 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $30K
- Local program: Davidson County
Caterpillar Foundation and PLTW fund public and charter schools within 15 miles of Nashville. Schools can start or grow PLTW Computer Science or Engineering. Schools with many low-income students get priority.
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Nonprofit
Project Lead The Way (PLTW) with Arconic Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 4, 2026 · 54 days left
- Award
- $5,000 – $15K
- Local program: Blount County, Knox County, Loudon County, Monroe County and 1 more counties
Arconic Foundation and PLTW fund public and charter schools in five East Tennessee counties. Schools can start or grow PLTW Launch, Gateway, Computer Science or Engineering. Schools with many low-income students get priority.
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Federal
U.S. National Science Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Mar 2, 2027 · 142 days left
- Award
- $1M – $5M
- In Tennessee
- No match
- 116 past Tennessee awards
U.S. National Science Foundation expects to make 60 awards of $1 million to $5 million.
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