Tennessee · Public charity
Humanities Tennessee
To foster community and civility in tennessee through public programs that examine and reflect upon ideas, stories, history, arts, and culture.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $79k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,901
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 85
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Humanities Tennessee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $79k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $93k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $82k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $976k | 91% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $84k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $81k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $72k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $81k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Historical Society | $88,158 | 8 | 5% |
| Chick History Inc | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| East Nashville Hope Exchange Inc | $49,940 | 7 | 4% |
| East Tennessee Historical Society Inc | $48,350 | 4 | 2% |
| Centennial Park Conservancy | $42,874 | 4 | 0% |
| Kidizenship Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Memphis Museums of Science & History | $23,148 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Dunbar Cave Inc | $22,800 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Tennessee | $19,466 | 2 | n/a |
| Discovery Park of America Inc | $18,370 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($313k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Humanities Tennessee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Artsmemphis · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · South Arts Inc · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Artsbuild
How this is measured
About Humanities Tennessee
- How much does Humanities Tennessee give?
- Humanities Tennessee reported 9 itemized grants totaling $78,709, out of $125,105 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 85 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Humanities Tennessee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (84%), Education (5%), Community Improvement (2%).
- Who are Humanities Tennessee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tennessee Historical Society ($88k), Chick History Inc ($60k), East Nashville Hope Exchange Inc ($50k).
- Does Humanities Tennessee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Humanities Tennessee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Humanities Tennessee based?
- Humanities Tennessee is based in TN.
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