Tennessee · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Health & Medicine in Tennessee

Imperigo has identified 1,068 funders that made 7,187 grants totaling $9.4B to 314 health & medicine organizations in Tennessee, with a median grant of $17K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Health & Medicine Funding in Tennessee

Total granted $9.4B
Funders 1,068
Grants 7,187
Organizations funded 314

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Eastman Credit Union
16 grants to 5 organizations · largest $1.3M · through 2025 · 22.5% of their giving
$1.6M
27. The Junior League of Nashville Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.4M · through 2024 · 42.9% of their giving
$1.5M
28. Acm Lifting Lives
11 grants to 3 organizations · largest $240K · through 2024 · 52.4% of their giving
$1.5M
29. UT Hospital Auxiliary Gift Shop
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $575K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.4M
30. Hutsonwood Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $1.3M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.3M
31. The Blackbaud Giving Fund
32 grants to 24 organizations · largest $6.5M · through 2024 · 1.2% of their giving
$20.6M
32. ROH Investment Co Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $1.2M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.2M
33. Christian Community Foundation of Memphis
67 grants to 19 organizations · largest $2.2M · through 2024 · 2.4% of their giving
$10.0M
34. Home for Awhile Golf Tournament Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $300K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.2M
35. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc
641 grants to 36 organizations · largest $1.0M · through 2024 · 2.5% of their giving
$9.2M
36. Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee
19 grants to 11 organizations · largest $165K · through 2024 · 19.0% of their giving
$1.1M
37. Christmas Village
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $536K · through 2024 · 37.5% of their giving
$1.0M
38. Jewelers for Children
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $275K · through 2024 · 18.1% of their giving
$1.1M
39. Provision Trust Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $750K · through 2019 · 94.9% of their giving
$750K
40. Jewish Foundation of Memphis
37 grants to 8 organizations · largest $539K · through 2024 · 5.4% of their giving
$2.7M
41. Knights Templar Eye Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $2.0M · through 2020 · 6.7% of their giving
$2.1M
42. Ronald McDonald House Global
18 grants to 3 organizations · largest $998K · through 2025 · 2.1% of their giving
$6.4M
43. Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $505K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$655K
44. United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc
128 grants to 27 organizations · largest $180K · through 2024 · 2.9% of their giving
$4.4M
45. The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc
148 grants to 18 organizations · largest $1.0M · through 2023 · 3.7% of their giving
$3.3M
46. The Turley Foundation
3 grants to 2 organizations · largest $500K · through 2024 · 20.3% of their giving
$611K
47. Virginia Hospital Research and Education Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.2M · through 2024 · 8.4% of their giving
$1.3M
48. Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $502K · through 2024 · 59.2% of their giving
$502K
49. The Dunavant Foundation
3 grants to 3 organizations · largest $735K · through 2023 · 6.4% of their giving
$1.5M
50. Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation
37 grants to 16 organizations · largest $432K · through 2024 · 2.8% of their giving
$3.5M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to health & medicine 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. 19 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 health & medicine 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 health & medicine funding in Tennessee, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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