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Local
ELCA Southeastern Synod · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 30, 2026 · 49 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Anderson County, Blount County, Cocke County, Cumberland County and 10 more counties
About $10,000 a year in grants for Lutheran ministry projects in Tennessee from Chattanooga eastward. An East Tennessee group reviews requests. Applications are due November 30. Only congregations in the synod's Conference 6 (East Tennessee) can apply.
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Local
Presbytery of East Tennessee (PC(USA)) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 31, 2026 · 19 days left
- Award
- Up to $5,000
- Local program: Anderson County, Blount County, Bradley County, Campbell County and 11 more counties
Grants help congregations in the Presbytery of East Tennessee with building and property upkeep. The presbytery plans two to three grants of up to $5,000 in 2026. Applications are due October 31, 2026.
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Nonprofit
Knoxville Ice Bears Charitable Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Knox County
- No match
The Ice Bears Foundation takes donation requests from Knoxville-area groups. It supports young athletes, education access and stronger communities. Apply any time with the online form.
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Nonprofit
Community LIFT · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Shelby County
Grants for Memphis community development corporations (CDCs) to cover early project costs. Uses include site studies, design plans, and community outreach. Applications are taken any time.
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Foundation
George R. Johnson Family Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Bradley County, Hamilton County, Loudon County, McMinn County and 6 more counties
Cleveland-based family foundation that gives to charities mainly in ten Southeast Tennessee counties and five North Georgia counties. Send a letter of two pages or less about the project. There is no deadline.
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Foundation
Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Anderson County, Bledsoe County, Blount County, Bradley County and 29 more counties
Chattanooga foundation that makes grants once a year to charities mainly in East Tennessee. Priorities are education, wellness, arts and culture, and military and veterans. Send a letter and proposal with your IRS letter and latest Form 990.
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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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Foundation
Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Davidson County
A Nashville family foundation that takes grant proposals at any time and reviews them as they come in. Major grants usually go to Nashville and a few other states. Environmental and conservation proposals are considered from anywhere in the country.
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Nonprofit
Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 15, 2026 · 34 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Rutherford County
A Murfreesboro women's group that gives grants to charities meeting basic needs in Rutherford County. Basic needs means food, clothing, shelter and medicine. Applications are due November 15, and money goes out in February.
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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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Foundation
The Ayers Foundation Trust · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Davidson County, Decatur County, Henderson County, Lawrence County and 2 more counties
A Parsons-based foundation focused on rural Tennessee education, conservation and social welfare. Its tax return says applications are taken at any time. Gifts go mainly to groups in six named Tennessee counties.
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Foundation
Wright Charitable Trust (c/o Carroll Bank & Trust) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Carroll County
Bank-managed trust that only funds groups that benefit the town of Huntingdon. Civic groups apply through the trustee, and a committee decides as needs come up.
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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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Nonprofit
Herb Society of Nashville · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 15, 2027 · 95 days left
- Award
- Up to $15K
- Local program: Bedford County, Cannon County, Cheatham County, Clay County and 37 more counties
- No match
Funds gardens in Middle Tennessee that support nutrition, wellness and learning. Schools, nonprofits, care facilities and community groups can apply. Up to $15,000 total may go to one or several projects.
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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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Federal
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention · Department of Justice · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 16, 2026 · 35 days left
- Award
- Up to $650K
- In Tennessee
- No match
- 79 past Tennessee awards
Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention expects to make 6 awards of up to $650,000. Open to many kinds of groups. See who can apply.
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Tennessee state
Tennessee Arts Commission · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 30, 2026 · 18 days left
- Award
- Up to $15K
Funds arts programs that improve health and wellness for patients, families, and staff at rural Tennessee hospitals; up to $15,000 with no match. Nonprofits, local governments, and nonprofit parent hospitals of rural-county hospitals can apply. Letter of...
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Tennessee state
Tennessee Arts Commission · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $3,000
Reimburses Tennessee public K-12 schools for artist fees, tickets, and transportation for arts field trips and in-school arts programs. Apply at least 30 days before the activity; some counties have already used up their funds.
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