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Local
Putnam Education Partnership (PEP) Foundation · Opening soon
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- Opening date not announced
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- Amount not specified
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- ! Local program: Putnam County
The PEP Foundation in Cookeville funds band, choir and theatre programs in Putnam County Schools. The goal is to let students from low-income families take part like their classmates. Past grants bought instruments and choir uniforms.
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Local
Mountain Education Foundation · Opening soon
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- Opening date not announced
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- Amount not specified
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- ! Local program: Hamilton County
The Mountain Education Foundation gives yearly grants to each public school on Signal Mountain. Principals and PTAs plan how to use the money, then present it to the foundation board. Funds are paid back as schools spend them during the next school year.
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Hendersonville Chamber Foundation · Opening soon
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- Opening date not announced
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- Amount not specified
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- ! Local program: Sumner County
The Hendersonville Chamber Foundation gives grants to K-12 teachers, grade teams and schools in the Hendersonville area. Projects must meet a special need or start a new way to teach. Winners are honored at the yearly Golden Apple Teacher event.
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Corporate
Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Opening soon
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- Opening date not announced
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- Up to $5,000
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Dollar General Literacy Foundation Youth Literacy grants (up to $5,000) help schools, libraries and nonprofits support K-12 students reading below grade level. Applicants must be in a Dollar General state and within 15 miles of a Dollar General store. The...
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Private
The Pilcrow Foundation · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Due Apr 1, 2027 · 176 days left
- Award
- Up to $1,200
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Small rural public libraries can get up to $1,200 in new hardcover children's books. The library raises $200 to $400 from a local sponsor, and the foundation matches it 2-to-1. Deadlines are April 1 and October 1 each year.
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Foundation
The William and Charlotte Parks Foundation for Animal Welfare · Opening soon
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- Opening date not announced
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- Up to $10K
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
The Parks Foundation funds animal welfare projects like humane education, cruelty prevention, rescue training and research. It does not pay for spay/neuter, basic shelter costs or buildings. Awards are usually $10,000 or less.
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Foundation
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation · Opening soon
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- Opens Oct 15, 2026 · due Jan 15, 2027
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- Up to $25K
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
The Gottlieb Foundation gives $25,000 grants to painters, sculptors and printmakers who have made serious art for at least 20 years. Artists must show financial need. Students, crafts and project funding are not eligible.
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Local
McMinn County Education Foundation · Closed for this year
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- Next round: due about Sep 21, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
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- Up to $2,000
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- ! Local program: McMinn County
- ✓ No match required
Mini-grants for teachers in each McMinn County school system, for individual teachers or teacher groups. Funded by local United Way, family foundation and business sponsors.
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Private
National Film Preservation Foundation · Closed for this year
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- Next round: due about Apr 24, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
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- Amount not specified
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
Nonprofit and public archives can get lab work paid to save old films. You first contact the foundation about your project. Television and video works are not eligible.
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Foundation
Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · Closed for this year
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- Next round: about Jul 1 – Aug 1, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
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- $10K – $25K
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- ! Local program: Shelby County
One-time grants of $10,000 to $25,000 for new or growing projects that fight poverty in Memphis. The last window ran July 1 to August 1. Contact the foundation before applying.
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Local
Rotary Club of Downtown Franklin Foundation · Opening soon
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- Opening date not announced
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- Amount not specified
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- ! Local program: Williamson County
The Downtown Franklin Rotary club's foundation gives grants to local organizations, plus some international and education grants. Applications open once a year.
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Corporate
Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union Foundation for Education · Opening soon
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- Opening date not announced
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- Up to $1,500
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- ! Local program: Blount County, Carter County, Hamblen County, Jefferson County and 6 more counties
Classroom project grants for educators at public high schools in the credit union's East Tennessee service area. Each eligible high school can receive up to $1,500 in total. Apply through the foundation's online portal.
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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 · 106 days left
- Award
- Up to $10K
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
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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Corporate
Delek US (Delek Fund for Hope, a component fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee) · Open
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- No deadline listed: see the official notice
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- 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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Foundation
A. O. Smith Foundation (A. O. Smith / Lochinvar) · Open
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- No deadline listed: see the official notice
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- Amount not specified
- ! Local program: Cheatham County, Wilson County
The A. O. Smith Foundation gives grants to nonprofits in towns where the company has a plant, including Ashland City and Lebanon. It funds education, arts and culture, and health and human services. Requests are accepted all year by mail or email.
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Federal
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health · Department of Health and Human Services · Opening soon
- Deadline
- The funder's estimated date (Jul 16, 2025) has passed. Check the official notice Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $300K – $550K
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 12
The Office on Women's Health (OWH) anticipates the availability of funding for an implementation and scaling project to build upon foundational work in managing hypertension by the HHS Hypertension Innovator Award (OWH), the Hypertension in Pregnancy...
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Federal
Agricultural Marketing Service · Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 1, 2026 · 55 days left
- Award
- $2.3M – $3.5M
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 30
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), requests applications for fiscal year (FY) 2026 from existing initiatives of the Dairy Business Innovation (DBI) Initiatives Program: the California State University Fresno...
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Federal
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response · Department of Health and Human Services · Opening soon
- Deadline
- The funder's estimated date (Aug 1, 2022) has passed. Check the official notice Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
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- Up to $3M
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 3
Funding for one demonstration project that will help identify issues, develop leading practices, and demonstrate the potential effectiveness and viability of the RDHRS concept. The RDHRS structure is conceptualized as a tiered system that builds upon the...
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Federal
Department of Homeland Security - FEMA · Department of Homeland Security · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jul 13 – Aug 14, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $1M
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is a coordinating program for earthquake monitoring, research, implementation, education, and outreach activities developed and conducted by these four agencies:
• Federal Emergency Management...
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Federal
Department of Homeland Security - FEMA · Department of Homeland Security · Closed for this year
- Deadline
- Next round: about Jul 13 – Aug 14, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
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- $50K – $963K
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- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is a coordinating program for earthquake monitoring, research, implementation, education, and outreach activities developed and conducted by these four agencies:
• Federal Emergency Management...
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