Education Funding in Tennessee
Total granted
$1.6B
Funders
955
Grants
11,196
Organizations funded
767
Tennessee · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Education in Tennessee
Imperigo has identified 955 funders that made 11,196 grants totaling $1.6B to 767 education organizations in Tennessee, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 2 of 4
$44.5M
$3.0M
$44.8M
$758K
32.
Newseum Inc
$748K
$2.5M
36.
RAF Inc
$614K
$550K
$1.1M
$502K
$470K
$1.4M
$938K
$418K
$402K
$364K
46.
Riser Foundation
$361K
$544K
$17.0M
Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to education 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. 15 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 education 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 education funding in Tennessee, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.
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