Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Knoxville, Tennessee

110
foundations with a Knoxville address
$112.2M
grants paid, FY2022–FY2025
35
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 110 foundations that gave a Knoxville, Tennessee address on their tax filing — 105 private foundations and 5 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2022–FY2025. Together they paid out $112.2 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 35 of them (32%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Knoxville foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 110 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 10 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Knoxville, Tennessee
The Haslam 3 Foundation Inc$200,000$21.4M$4,100–$6.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Clayton Family Foundation$5,000$11.1M$500–$10MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Boyd Foundation$48,875$9.4M$500–$1.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Regal Foundation$679$3M$90–$500,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ahb Foundation Inc$10,000$1.5M$2,500–$496,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc$2,500$1M$200–$300,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582$25,000$972,771$4,000–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Aslan Foundation$3,400$917,911$200–$275,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Siddiqi Charitable Foundation$15,000$421,025$325–$80,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The William B Stokely Jr Foundation$10,000$372,450$200–$205,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jane L Pettway Foundation$8,551$334,276$2,000–$23,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Cole Foundation Robert H & Monica M$2,625$318,500$1,000–$175,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007$2,500$181,310$750–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Smith Family Foundation$10,000$176,500$1,500–$20,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Paddison Charitable Foundation$5,000$173,000$1,000–$15,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert Lee Weiss Foundation 15-3002252$4,000$159,500$2,000–$22,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hees Family Foundation$2,000$111,000$250–$24,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Graham Foundation$2,000$109,604$100–$130,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Willayne E Towe Christian Foundation$5,000$107,500$1,500–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lamp Foundation$2,000$107,430$250–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
East Tennessee Cardiovascular$8,000$92,000$1,000–$35,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Lawson Family Foundation$10,000$82,000$1,000–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Haegele-Blount Animal Shelters 237-8802715$26,240$80,240$13,440–$40,560FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Valentine Foundation Inc$10,000$77,500$2,500–$15,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Cathy L Hodges Memorial Cancer Foundati$68,000$68,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2022–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.