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Community foundation
South Cumberland Community Fund · Open
- Deadline
- Due about Oct 10, 2026 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- Up to $5,000
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ! Local program: Franklin County, Grundy County, Marion County
Fall project grants of up to $5,000, funded by two University of the South endowments and reviewed by a student grants committee. Same eligibility and focus areas as the spring round (education, health, community/economic development on the South...
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 10, 2026 · 3 days left
- Award
- Up to $500K
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- ! Only 3 days left to apply
Grants for new or growing agriculture, food, and forestry businesses whose value-added or processing projects raise income or open markets for other Tennessee farmers. The grant can cover no more than a quarter of the project budget.
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Transportation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 16, 2026 · 9 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ! Only through a host: open to city or town government, county government or special district (utility, fire, etc.); your incubator qualifies only if one of them runs it or applies with you
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- ! Only 9 days left to apply
Reimbursement grants for aerospace-related economic development and job creation, for capital or non-capital projects. Local governments, their economic development organizations, airport authorities, and state subdivisions may apply. $5.2 million is...
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Federal
69A350 OSDBU · Department of Transportation · Open
- Deadline
- Due Oct 31, 2026 · 24 days left
- Award
- Up to $250K
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), will provide financial assistance to an eligible 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization to establish, operate, and administer the Region 4...
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 13, 2026 · 37 days left
- Award
- Up to $100K
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ! 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
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- Due Nov 19, 2026 · 43 days left
- Award
- Up to $5M
- ! Only through a host: open to city or town government, county government or special district (utility, fire, etc.); your incubator qualifies only if one of them runs it or applies with you
- ✓ Available 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 Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 30, 2026 · 84 days left
- Award
- Up to $1M
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
Larger cost-share grants for agriculture, food, and forestry business projects with at least $2 million in capital spending that benefit other producers. The grant can cover no more than a quarter of the project budget.
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Tennessee state
USDA Rural Development (Tennessee State Office) via local electric/telephone cooperatives · Open
- Deadline
- Due Dec 31, 2026 · 85 days left
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 3
USDA lends and grants to rural electric and telephone utilities, which pass the money on as zero-interest loans for local job-creating projects; business incubators are named as an eligible project type. A Tennessee incubator in a rural town under 50,000...
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Federal
Rural Business-Cooperative Service · Department of Agriculture · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jan 31, 2027 · 116 days left
- Award
- $600K – $1M
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
The primary objective of the program is to provide grants to Agriculture Innovation Centers that will provide technical assistance to agricultural producers to market value-added agricultural products.
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Federal
Department of Housing and Urban Development · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Jan 11, 2027 · due about Mar 11, 2027 Estimate, not confirmed by the funder
- Award
- $400K – $3M
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ✓ No match required
The Distressed Cities Technical Assistance (DCTA) Program competitively awards funding to eligible applicants. If selected through this NOFO, you will deliver technical assistance (TA) to Units of General Local Government (UGLG) that serve communities of...
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Community foundation
South Cumberland Community Fund · Opening soon
- Deadline
- Opens Mar 1, 2027 · due Apr 1, 2027
- Award
- Up to $10K
Should we apply? · Get ready
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ! Local program: Franklin County, Grundy County, Marion County
Annual competitive project grants of up to $10,000 for work that broadly benefits residents of the South Cumberland Plateau, with priority on education, health, and community/economic development. Applicants must attend a grant info session in the calendar...
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Tennessee state
Launch Tennessee (Tennessee Technology Advancement Consortium) · Open
- Deadline
- Due Jun 1, 2027 · 237 days left
- Award
- Up to $50K
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
- ✓ No match required
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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Local
Operation CityScape (Cookeville Main Street program) · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $2,500
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ! Local program: Putnam County
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
First-come, first-served reimbursement grants for downtown Cookeville property or business owners in the CityScape footprint who are improving facades, awnings, windows, lighting, paint or entrances. A grant committee must approve projects before work starts.
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Federal
Department of Commerce · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $300K
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 21
NOTICE: Application Process as of April 6th
EDA is excited to announce the launch of its new grants management platform: the Economic Development Grants Experience (EDGE). EDGE was developed to streamline the application and grants management process by...
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Federal
Economic Development Administration · Department of Commerce · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $50M
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 67
Through this Disaster NOFO, EDA will award investments in regions experiencing severe economic distress or other economic harm resulting from hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods, and other natural disasters occurring in calendar years 2023 and 2024....
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Federal
Economic Development Administration · Department of Commerce · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Up to $30M
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 67
Subject to the availability of funds, awards made under this NOFO will help communities and regions devise and implement long-term economic recovery strategies through a variety of non-construction and construction projects, as appropriate, to address...
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Tennessee state
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ! Only through a host: open to city or town government or county government; your incubator qualifies only if one of them runs it or applies with you
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
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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Tennessee state
TN Department of Economic & Community Development · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ! Only through a host: open to city or town government or county government; your incubator qualifies only if one of them runs it or applies with you
- ✓ Available in Tennessee
Grants go to local communities to pay back a company for costs like buying land, new construction or building retrofits. It is used only for exceptional projects with major jobs, investment or wages. TNECD decides case by case.
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Federal
Economic Development Administration · Department of Commerce · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- $100K – $30M
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
- ! Needs a match (see how much in the notice)
- i Past Tennessee awards on file: 83
PLEASE FIND THE NOFO IN THE 'DOCUMENTS' SECTION OF THIS POST
This opportunity has been updated as of May 11, 2026
Program Overview:
EDA has authority to provide grants to meet the full range of communities’ and regions’ economic development needs from...
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Corporate
Terminix · Open
- Deadline
- No deadline listed: see the official notice
- Award
- Amount not specified
- ✓ Open to: Business incubator, accelerator or entrepreneur center
- ✓ Available in Tennessee (nationwide program)
Terminix takes requests for grants, donations and volunteers all year. It favors programs that build leadership and small business skills or improve life where its staff live. Send the request by email.
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