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Tennessee Grantmaking Charities Making Grants of $25,000 - $100,000

These 41 organizations are based in Tennessee and reported a median grant between $25,000 and $100,000 on their most recent Form 990 Schedule I filing. A typical grant is not a promise about any single gift -- some of an organization's grants are smaller than its median, some are larger -- but it is a reasonable signal for whether an application here fits the size of your ask.

41organizations in this range
$1.5Bgranted between them
3,182funding relationships mapped

A median grant this size is a substantial commitment for most organizations, so a detailed proposal is worth the extra time it takes -- and worth confirming the organization takes unsolicited requests at all before you start writing.

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars -- the same convention as every list on this site. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific organization is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville$81,659438$543.5M
Gary Sinise FoundationFranklin$25,000428$45.3M
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville$55,295342$334.3M
Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle TnNashville$58,584225$149.5M
Churches of Christ Disaster ReliefNashville$41,865173$13.7M
Accelerate - the National CollaborativeNashville$75,000117$35.0M
United Way of Greater KnoxvilleincKnoxville$50,000108$26.2M
United Way of Greater ChattanoogaChattanooga$27,502103$17.5M
Memphis Center CityMemphis$30,00094$6.7M
Chattanooga Area Food Bank IncChattanooga$31,43590$19.2M
The Urban Child InstituteMemphis$50,00075$28.2M
National Health Care for HomelessNashville$80,00068$8.6M
Smile 180 FoundationNashville$46,14458$14.7M
Trinity Health FoundationKnoxville$55,00055$4.9M
United Way of Greater Kingsport IncKingsport$35,88248$10.8M
Tennessee Bar FoundationNashville$25,00048$8.8M
Tennessee Rural Health Recruitment &Brentwood$50,00045$16.7M
The Cma FoundationNashville$25,00045$4.7M
Memphis Equity Through Arts IncMemphis$25,00040$2.5M
For Others Collective IncFranklin$88,50538$18.1M
Clarksville-Montgomery County CommunityClarksville$50,00037$7.8M
Tennessee Charitable Care NetworkFranklin$57,68535$9.9M
Memphis Jewish FederationMemphis$40,00031$8.9M
Jobs for America's Graduates TennesseeNashville$40,75630$2.8M
Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273)Nashville$72,37130$3.4M
United Way of the Ocoee RegionCleveland$30,00030$8.6M
United Way of Blount CountyMaryville$33,75029$6.3M
Baptist Memorial Health CareMemphis$94,95928$33.6M
Tennessee Chapter of Children's AdvocacyNashville$79,58628$9.6M
The Howard FundChattanooga$25,00026$1.7M
Habitat for Humanity of Tn IncMurfreesboro$46,50025$15.0M
Elgin Children's Foundation IncKnoxville$30,00024$6.6M
The Canale Foundation IncMemphis$27,00024$10.7M
Women's Foundation for a Greater MemphisMemphis$25,00023$8.1M
Kappa Delta Foundation IncorporatedMemphis$50,40022$6.6M
Chi Psi Educational Trust IncNashville$50,00021$3.2M
United Way of Bristol Tn-Va IncBristol$26,00021$2.5M
Nashville Zoo IncNashville$25,00020$1.2M
Pi Kappa Alpha FoundationMemphis$64,69820$3.8M
We Are One World Foundation IncNashville$50,00020$2.5M
Mountain Ways IncGatlinburg$70,00020$4.0M
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Every median grant on this page describes the grants reported, not all of them, so the real typical grant is likely lower than shown. This is also why these figures cannot be compared to the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site.

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