Human Services Funding in Tennessee
Total granted
$954.9M
Funders
757
Grants
9,950
Organizations funded
866
Tennessee · Grantmakers
Foundations That Fund Human Services in Tennessee
Imperigo has identified 757 funders that made 9,950 grants totaling $954.9M to 866 human services organizations in Tennessee, with a median grant of $13K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.
Top Funders — page 4 of 4
$1.2M
$1.2M
208.
Columbus Foundation
$897K
$1.1M
$59.1M
$21.3M
$29.3M
$30.1M
$8.4M
$4.2M
$3.2M
$6.3M
$6.9M
$2.9M
$103.5M
$10.3M
$10.1M
$7.3M
$5.8M
$4.4M
$6.6M
$3.5M
$3.4M
$2.9M
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.
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 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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