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Foundation
The Hand Foundation, Inc. (Chattanooga) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Small Chattanooga foundation that sends its application details on request. It lists no deadline or area limits. Most past grants were gifts of $100 to $10,000 to Chattanooga groups.
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Nonprofit
Fund for Investigative Journalism · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 29, 2027 · 110 days left
- Award
- $1,000 – $10K
Pays reporting costs for freelance and staff journalists doing investigative stories. Regular grants go up to $10,000; seed grants of $1,000 to $2,500 help with early reporting. Full proposals need a letter from a news outlet that plans to run the story.
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Nonprofit
National Geographic Society · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 51 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
National Geographic now funds people through specific requests for proposals. This one, backed by Lilly Endowment, seeks storytelling projects about the human experience. Applicants must be 18 or older and lead the project themselves.
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Federal
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention · Department of Justice · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 16, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- Up to $250K
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention expects to make 2 awards of up to $250,000. Open to many kinds of groups. See who can apply.
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Federal
Fish and Wildlife Service · Department of the Interior · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 31, 2026 · 20 days left
- Award
- $25K – $2.3M
- Location limits unclear. Check who can apply
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Fish and Wildlife Service expects to make 4 awards of $25,000 to $2.3 million. Open to state government.
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Nonprofit
Tennessee Craft (with Tennessee Arts Commission) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 7, 2026 · 27 days left
- Award
- Up to $1,900
Pairs a Tennessee craft artist with a master artist for six months of one-on-one study. Apprentices get a $1,900 stipend for supplies, tools, and travel. Applicants must live in Tennessee and be 18 or older.
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Nonprofit
Pets in the Classroom (Pet Care Trust) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- $50 – $125
Helps Pre-K to 12th grade teachers buy a class pet and supplies. First-time grants are store coupons or rebates; later years bring a $50 sustaining grant. The grant follows the teacher, not the school.
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Nonprofit
IBMA Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 31, 2027 · 112 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Supports bluegrass activities that bring more people of color into bluegrass music. Project grants are due January 31 each year. Individual musicians of color can also ask for smaller grants any time.
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Tennessee state
Tennessee Housing Development Agency (THDA) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 23, 2026 · 12 days left
- Award
- $250K – $1M
- In Tennessee
- No match
- Only 12 days left to apply
- 200 past Tennessee awards
Federal HOME-ARP grants for nonprofits and local governments to provide supportive services to people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, or fleeing domestic violence or trafficking. Grants run January 2027 through June 2030.
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Federal
Office for Victims of Crime · Department of Justice · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 14, 2026 · 3 days left
- Award
- Up to $1M
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- Only 3 days left to apply
- 18 past Tennessee awards
Office for Victims of Crime expects to make 30 awards of up to $1 million. Open to many kinds of groups. See who can apply.
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Corporate
Walmart / Walmart Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 30, 2026 · 50 days left
- Award
- $250 – $5,000
- Only near the company's Tennessee sites. Check the program page
Local Walmart stores, Sam's Clubs and distribution centers give cash grants of $250 to $5,000 to groups serving their area. Nonprofits, schools, local governments and faith groups running community projects can apply. Apply through a Spark Good account on...
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Nonprofit
The Pollination Project · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $500
One-time seed grants of up to $500 for people starting projects that make their community kinder. Individuals and informal groups anywhere may apply. Group budgets must be under $50,000 and projects under $10,000.
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Nonprofit
American Geographical Society · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $300
Gives AP Human Geography teachers $300 to buy geography or mapping activities and resources for students. Teachers anywhere in the U.S. may apply with a short online form.
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Nonprofit
Newberry Library · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 4, 2026 · 54 days left
- Award
- $3,000 – $6,000
Pays $3,000 a month for one to two months of research in the Newberry Library's collections in Chicago. Scholars with a PhD at any career stage may apply; they need not be faculty. Fellows find their own housing.
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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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Federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA · Department of Health and Human Services · Open
- Deadline
- Accepts applications through Sep 30, 2030. Rounds may close sooner: check the notice
- Award
- Amount not specified
- In Tennessee
- No match
- 73 past Tennessee awards
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ERA expects to make 100 awards.
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Nonprofit
Pulitzer Center · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Pays for in-depth enterprise and investigative stories published by local U.S. news outlets. Freelance and staff journalists may apply, as can groups of newsrooms working together.
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Corporate
Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 26, 2026 · 15 days left
- Award
- $10K – $50K
- Local program: Bledsoe County, Bradley County, Grundy County, Hamilton County and 6 more counties
- No match
Pitch-competition grants for established for-profit small businesses (12+ months operating, 2-25 employees, revenue up to $2.5 million) in TVFCU's service area. Separate Chattanooga and Ocoee region contests each award a $50,000 grand prize, a $20,000...
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Federal
Washington Headquarters Services · Department of Defense · Open
- Deadline
- Accepts applications through Jan 22, 2030. Rounds may close sooner: check the notice
- Award
- $50K – $20M
- In Tennessee
- No match
- 7 past Tennessee awards
Washington Headquarters Services expects to make 75 awards of $50,000 to $20 million.
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Local
City of Chattanooga · Open
- Deadline
- Due today (Oct 11, 2026)
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Hamilton County
- Due today
Small grants for projects led by registered Chattanooga neighborhood associations that improve the neighborhood or build a sense of place. The city pays vendors directly for approved purchases, and projects must wrap up by November 20, 2026.
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