Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Nashville, Tennessee

303
foundations with a Nashville address
$431M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
70
say they accept unsolicited
$7,625
median grant

Grantlas lists 303 foundations that gave a Nashville, Tennessee address on their tax filing — 277 private foundations and 26 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $431 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 70 of them (23%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Nashville 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 303 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 45 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Nashville, Tennessee
The Frist Foundation$20,000$58.2M$1,000–$23.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Hca Healthcare Foundation$5,000$25.4M$1,000–$9.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Cal Turner Family Foundation Inc$97,280$10.1M$2,880–$4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Scarlett Family Foundation$13,019$9.2M$1,250–$443,700FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joe C Davis Foundation$20,000$8.2M$500–$2.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Healing Trust$26,129$4.8M$100–$190,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Housing Affordability Trust$100,000$3.8M$985–$834,223FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Andrea Waitt Carlton Family Foundation$17,000$3.1M$1,000–$262,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gibson Gives Foundation$4,000$2.5M$290–$343,057FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The West End Home Foundation$40,000$2.3M$8,000–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Laura G Turner Charitable$50,000$2.2M$5,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Tennessee Titans Foundation$2,500$2.1M$100–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
James Stephen Turner Family Foundation$25,000$2M$456–$700,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc$20,000$1.9M$150–$94,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tenn$50,169$1.9M$2,938–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Christenberry-Anderson-Loomis Family$21,250$1.5M$5,000–$175,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Cooper Family Charitable Foundation Inc$60,000$1.5M$1,000–$400,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Davison Bruce Foundation$15,000$1.1M$500–$66,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dugas Family Foundation Inc$35,000$1.1M$13,200–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
James W Carell Charitable Trust$16,000$1.1M$500–$275,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Jeanette Travis Foundation$100,000$1M$50,000–$285,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Blair J Wilson Charitable Trust$10,000$1M$1,000–$450,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
T & T Family Foundation$5,000$784,500$1,000–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kharis Foundation$25,000$733,000$1,500–$133,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dugas Family Foundation Tx Inc$30,000$726,800$5,000–$100,000FY2024Locked: 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, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.