No grant matches every word of “Children's Defense Fund”. These match some of your words — check each one, or try different words.
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Foundation or nonprofit
Good Sports · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Donations of new sports equipment, apparel, and footwear for youth programs in high-poverty areas. Accepted organizations can receive up to 8 donations over two years. Recipients pay a shipping fee of about 5% of the equipment's value.
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Utility / co-op
Volunteer Energy Cooperative (VECustomers Share) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $10K
- Local program: Bledsoe County, Bradley County, Cumberland County, Fentress County and 13 more counties
Volunteer Energy Cooperative members round up their bills to fund grants for community organizations and projects in VEC's service area, reviewed monthly by a volunteer board. Individuals cannot apply directly, and public schools, religious organizations,...
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Education foundation
Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (Calvin University) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 15, 2026 · 4 days left
- Award
- $8,000 – $25K
- In Tennessee
- Only 4 days left to apply
Grants for churches and other worshiping communities to try year-long projects that renew worship and preaching. Awards range from $8,000 to $25,000. Groups in the U.S. or Canada with tax-exempt status may apply.
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Foundation
Hillsdale Fund · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
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- Amount not specified
A Greensboro, North Carolina family fund that reviews applications twice a year, in spring and fall. Send a completed application with your IRS tax-exempt letter. Ask the fund for this year's deadlines.
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Nonprofit
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Office of Access/VSA) · Open
- Deadline
- Due about Nov 19, 2026 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $3,000
This juried show is for visual artists with disabilities, ages 16 to 25, who live in the U.S. Fifteen artists each get a $3,000 stipend, career training and a spot in a touring exhibition. Apply by November 19 for the 2027 theme, Thrive.
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Nonprofit
Project Lead The Way (PLTW) with Arconic Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 4, 2026 · 54 days left
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- Up to $20K
Arconic Foundation and PLTW give $20,000 grants to public and charter schools that add PLTW's Advanced Manufacturing course. The school must offer the course in 2027-28.
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Foundation
Citizens Bank Tri-Cities Foundation · Open
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- Rolling: apply any time
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- Amount not specified
A bank-linked foundation in Elizabethton that gives to charities and schools. Send your group's name and how the gift helps the community; there is no deadline. Past grants went mostly to Carter County and Tri-Cities groups.
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Corporate
Tractor Supply Company · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Only near the company's Tennessee sites. Check the program page
Tractor Supply takes requests for money or product donations for local events. You pick the Tractor Supply store closest to your event on the online form. You must upload your group's tax-exempt letter.
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Utility / co-op
Mountain Electric Cooperative (Operation Pocket Change) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $10K
- Local program: Carter County, Johnson County, Unicoi County
Mountain Electric members' round-up donations fund one-time grants to charitable groups in the co-op's area for specific projects or equipment, such as gear for volunteer fire departments and rescue squads, youth programs, and food or clothing programs....
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Corporate
CHS Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
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- Amount not specified
CHS funds farm safety and farmer health projects. Projects must reach several states or the whole country. Local projects must go through a CHS co-op's matching grant program instead.
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Foundation
Dwayne Hawkins Family Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due about Feb 1, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
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- Amount not specified
- Local program: Bledsoe County, Bradley County, Grundy County, Hamilton County and 6 more counties
The Hawkins Family Foundation funds nonprofits in Southeast Tennessee and parts of Ohio and Florida. It supports health care, education, the arts, special needs and community growth. Its board reviews requests four times a year. GrantMe reads Southeast...
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Foundation
O'Sullivan Family Charitable Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
This Birmingham, Alabama family foundation gives to 501(c)(3) groups for charitable, educational or religious work. Requests are taken at any time and reviewed when received. Past Tennessee gifts included St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.
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Federal
Administration for Children and Families · Department of Health and Human Services · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 20, 2026 · 40 days left
- Award
- $500K – $15M
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- 7 past Tennessee awards
Administration for Children and Families expects to make 25 awards of $500,000 to $15 million. Open to state government.
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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 $1.6M
- 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 4 awards of up to $1.6 million. Open to state government or tribal government.
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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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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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Nonprofit
First Responders Children's Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
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- Amount not specified
One-time help for first responder families with children who face a sudden money crisis. The grant pays rent, mortgage, utilities, or child care directly. Applications are reviewed all year.
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Corporate
ORNL Federal Credit Union · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Anderson County, Bledsoe County, Blount County, Bradley County and 29 more counties
Donations and sponsorships for East Tennessee 501(c)(3) groups whose work fits the credit union's priorities of financial education, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) and community improvement. Past recipients include school education...
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Nonprofit
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 25, 2026 · 14 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Robotics teams in real need can ask for help paying the rest of their season sign-up fee. It is mainly for teams outside the U.S., but U.S. teams may apply. Funding is very limited.
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Education foundation
Educating Character Initiative, Program for Leadership and Character (Wake Forest University) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 16, 2026 · 36 days left
- Award
- $100K – $1M
Funds three-year efforts at colleges to build students' moral, civic and intellectual character. Two- and four-year U.S. colleges can apply. A letter of inquiry comes first; full proposals are by invitation.
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