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Foundations That Fund Employment & Job Training in Tennessee

Imperigo has identified 95 funders that made 446 grants totaling $103.5M to 53 employment & job training organizations in Tennessee, with a median grant of $15K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Employment & Job Training Funding in Tennessee

Total granted $103.5M
Funders 95
Grants 446
Organizations funded 53

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. The Martin Family Foundation Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.4M · through 2024 · 61.7% of their giving
$3.7M
2. Electrical Training Alliance
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $3.5M · through 2023 · 97.5% of their giving
$3.5M
3. Bicentennial Volunteers Incorporated
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $291K · through 2024 · 18.4% of their giving
$1.2M
4. Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc
23 grants to 6 organizations · largest $1.9M · through 2024 · 1.6% of their giving
$13.0M
5. United Association of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipe
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.7M · through 2024 · 3.5% of their giving
$5.8M
6. United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc
39 grants to 8 organizations · largest $407K · through 2024 · 1.6% of their giving
$2.4M
7. Cwi Works Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $696K · through 2023 · 1.1% of their giving
$2.0M
8. Slingshot Memphis Inc
16 grants to 3 organizations · largest $95K · through 2024 · 5.7% of their giving
$376K
9. National Council on Aging Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.2M · through 2024
$2.3M
10. Systems Building Research Alliance
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2020 · 100.0% of their giving
$100K
11. United Way of Greater Chattanooga
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $100K · through 2024 · 2.0% of their giving
$506K
12. Appalachian Community Capital Corporation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $166K · through 2020 · 4.8% of their giving
$166K
13. Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $75K · through 2022 · 8.3% of their giving
$75K
14. Christian Community Foundation of Memphis
12 grants to 4 organizations · largest $569K · through 2024
$1.6M
15. Tennessee Technology Development Corp
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $207K · through 2024
$439K
16. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc
59 grants to 10 organizations · largest $275K · through 2024
$1.2M
17. National Basketball Association Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $540K · through 2023
$665K
18. The Winston-Salem Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $800K · through 2023
$1.1M
19. Arbor Brothers Inc DBA Arbor Rising
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $126K · through 2024 · 1.1% of their giving
$126K
20. The Turley Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2022 · 2.0% of their giving
$60K
21. The New World Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $60K · through 2021
$140K
22. United Way of West Tennesseinc Starks
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $24K · through 2019 · 2.5% of their giving
$24K
23. Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
6 grants to 3 organizations · largest $160K · through 2024
$437K
24. Brentwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2024 · 1.7% of their giving
$15K
25. Groundswell Fund
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $95K · through 2022
$115K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to employment & job training 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. 10 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.

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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 employment & job training 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 employment & job training funding in Tennessee, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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