Tennessee · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Human Services in Tennessee

Imperigo has identified 773 funders that made 10,276 grants totaling $994.9M to 876 human services organizations in Tennessee, with a median grant of $13K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Human Services Funding in Tennessee

Total granted $994.9M
Funders 773
Grants 10,276
Organizations funded 876

Top Funders — page 3 of 4

51. Amherst Glen Senior Apartments
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $434K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$434K
52. Servant Life Missions Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $115K · through 2025 · 19.6% of their giving
$442K
53. The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc
218 grants to 30 organizations · largest $100K · through 2023 · 3.1% of their giving
$2.7M
54. West Tn Healthcare Foundation Inc
24 grants to 8 organizations · largest $379K · through 2024 · 6.3% of their giving
$1.3M
55. United Way of Loudon County Inc
26 grants to 6 organizations · largest $42K · through 2024 · 34.5% of their giving
$392K
56. Amherst Towne Senior Apartments Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $366K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$366K
57. United Way of West Tennesseinc Starks
8 grants to 8 organizations · largest $94K · through 2019 · 31.6% of their giving
$295K
58. Blackberry Farm Foundation
11 grants to 4 organizations · largest $140K · through 2025 · 20.9% of their giving
$289K
59. Friends of Mur-Ci Homes Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $73K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$273K
60. United Way of the Ocoee Region
9 grants to 3 organizations · largest $177K · through 2025 · 6.6% of their giving
$807K
61. We Are One World Foundation Inc
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $175K · through 2024 · 12.7% of their giving
$415K
62. Kappa Delta Sorority - Alpha Epsilon Chapter
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $84K · through 2024 · 82.8% of their giving
$257K
63. Housing for the Elderly of Henderson County Inc
5 grants to 5 organizations · largest $50K · through 2024 · 41.7% of their giving
$250K
64. Speedway Children's Charities
66 grants to 24 organizations · largest $27K · through 2024 · 6.2% of their giving
$737K
65. The Kevin Carter Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $110K · through 2022 · 87.4% of their giving
$225K
66. Home Instead Charities
10 grants to 4 organizations · largest $68K · through 2023 · 12.2% of their giving
$362K
67. United Way of Humphreys County
14 grants to 4 organizations · largest $20K · through 2023 · 32.3% of their giving
$215K
68. Roane County United Way Inc
12 grants to 5 organizations · largest $34K · through 2024 · 36.1% of their giving
$214K
69. Board of Child Care of the United Methodist Church Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $1.0M · through 2024 · 4.1% of their giving
$1.0M
82. America First Works Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $1.0M · through 2020 · 2.6% of their giving
$1.0M
83. Jewish Federation of Greater Metrowest NJ
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $358K · through 2024 · 2.2% of their giving
$1.2M
88. The Urban Child Institute
14 grants to 8 organizations · largest $250K · through 2024 · 2.2% of their giving
$990K
116. East Bay Community Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.5M · through 2023
$2.5M
158. Charities Aid Foundation America
118 grants to 66 organizations · largest $257K · through 2024
$2.4M
168. Boston Foundation Inc
10 grants to 3 organizations · largest $500K · through 2024
$1.6M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to human services 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. 17 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 human services 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 human services funding in Tennessee, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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