Arts & Culture Funding in Tennessee
Total granted
$365.0M
Funders
379
Grants
5,488
Organizations funded
472
Tennessee · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Arts & Culture in Tennessee
Imperigo has identified 379 funders that made 5,488 grants totaling $365.0M to 472 arts & culture organizations in Tennessee, with a median grant of $12K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 2 of 4
$1.5M
$209K
$982K
$200K
$832K
$969K
$2.5M
$126K
37.
Ten Credit Union
$110K
38.
The Howard Fund
$190K
$917K
$600K
$68K
$578K
$1.2M
$50K
$253K
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to arts & culture work in Tennessee, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 16 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.
Other Causes Funded in Tennessee
About This Data
A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering arts & culture work, with an address in Tennessee. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.
Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable arts & culture funding in Tennessee, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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