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Nonprofit
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $5,000
Nonprofit groups and colleges can get up to $5,000 for Japanese teacher workshops or projects that help many schools. Apply two months before the project starts. Projects must end by March 31, 2027.
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Foundation
Doris Duke Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
U.S. nonprofits can send a short online letter about a project that fits a Doris Duke program, including Environment. Staff answer within two months. Very few letters lead to grants.
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Corporate
Publix Super Markets · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Publix Super Markets Charities helps nonprofits that serve youth, education, hunger, and homelessness in eight Southern states, including Tennessee. Hunger requests are due March 1 to April 30, and housing requests July 1 to August 31. Other program and...
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Corporate
Whirlpool Corporation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Only near the company's Tennessee sites. Check the program page
Whirlpool gives products, sponsorships, and grants for safe, healthy homes and strong neighborhoods. Nonprofits must be 501(c)(3)s within 20 miles of a Whirlpool site; schools, churches, fire and police departments, and sports teams are excluded. Send...
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Nonprofit
The Recycling Partnership · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Helps recycling sorting facilities buy equipment to process more material. Public, private and nonprofit facilities across the U.S. can ask. Start by filling out an interest form.
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Corporate
BNSF Railway · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Only near the company's Tennessee sites. Check the program page
The BNSF Railway Foundation funds groups near BNSF rail lines, with preference for environment, health and human services, public safety and STEM education. Public charity 501(c)(3)s, first responders and local government divisions can apply online....
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Local
Downtown Memphis Commission / Center City Development Corporation · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Up to $45K
- Local program: Shelby County
Reimburses permanent interior build-out costs for new retail, creative arts/entertainment, and food and beverage businesses opening in ground-floor storefronts in targeted Downtown Memphis corridors. Applicants must be approved before signing a lease of at...
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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
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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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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Tennessee state
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 19, 2026 · 39 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
Tennessee Arts Commission · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 30, 2026 · 19 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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Corporate
Gene Haas Foundation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 51 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Grants to high schools and high school tech centers that teach CNC machining. The school gives the money to students as scholarships or uses it for supplies, camps or competitions. It can't buy machines. The foundation suggests $500 to $2,500 per student.
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Labor & Workforce Development · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
Helps Tennessee businesses pay to upskill their current full-time employees in new technologies, process improvement, and other training. Employers start with a pre-application through their local American Job Center.
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Tennessee state
Tennessee Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 51 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- 25 past Tennessee awards
Federal Clean Water Act Section 319 money, administered by TDA, for watershed restoration projects that install best management practices in impaired streams and for nonpoint source pollution education. The grant pays about 60% and the grantee covers 40%...
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 33 days left
- Award
- Up to $100K
- Local program: Anderson County, Bledsoe County, Blount County, Bradley County and 48 more counties
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Smaller ARC grants for planning work in Tennessee's Appalachian counties, accepted by TNECD on set dates each quarter rather than once a year. ARC's share depends on each county's economic status: up to 80% in distressed counties (20% match), 70% in...
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Tennessee state
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service – Tennessee · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 20, 2026 · 40 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
Funds permanent easements that keep Tennessee farmland in agriculture (through eligible entities such as land trusts and governments) or that restore and protect wetlands on private land (landowners apply directly). Applications received by the state...
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Tennessee state
USDA Forest Service (applications via TN Dept. of Agriculture Division of Forestry) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 13, 2026 · 2 days left
- Award
- Up to $600K
- In Tennessee
- Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- Only 2 days left to apply
Helps local governments, tribes and qualified conservation nonprofits buy privately owned forestland outright to create a community forest with public access. Tennessee applicants submit to the state forester (TDA Division of Forestry), not through...
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Foundation
The Martin Foundation (Nashville) · Open
- Deadline
- Rolling: apply any time
- Award
- Amount not specified
- Local program: Davidson County
A family foundation that gives general operating and capital grants to nonprofits serving Davidson County. It looks for groups working on food, housing, education, health and family stability. Start by contacting the foundation; documents are requested...
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Tennessee state
Launch Tennessee (Tennessee Technology Advancement Consortium) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jun 1, 2027 · 233 days left
- Award
- Up to $50K
Launch Tennessee funds Tennessee universities and nonprofits, including incubators and entrepreneur support organizations, for collaborative projects that move university research toward startups, build industry-academic ties, and grow early-stage...
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