Alabama · Private foundation
Regions Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $439k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $51,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Regions Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 41 | $439k | 90% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $110k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $290k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $355k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $445k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fisk University | $126,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tennessee State Museum Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 6% |
| United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Memphis Teacher Residency Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Artsmemphis | $60,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Tennessee State University Foundation | $56,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cumberland Heights Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Store Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| LeMoyne-Owen College | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Regions Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Ryman Hospitality Properties Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Frist Foundation · Tennessee Health Foundation Inc · Simmons First Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Regions Foundation
- How much does Regions Foundation give?
- Regions Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $438,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Regions Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Philanthropy (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Regions Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Fisk University ($126k), Tennessee State Museum Foundation Inc ($125k), United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc ($70k).
- Does Regions Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Regions Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Regions Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc.
- Where is Regions Foundation based?
- Regions Foundation is based in AL.
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