How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Tennessee?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Tennessee, currently Community Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Robert E & Jenny D Kirkland. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Tennessee from out of state.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Tennessee?

$249M reached 444 arts and culture organizations in Tennessee, from 890 funders. 67% came from funders also based in Tennessee.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Tennessee · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Tennessee

Arts and culture funding in Tennessee is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Frist Art Museum leads, and the money reaches 444 groups.

$249M

granted

444

organizations

67%

from in-state

The short version

890 funders gave $249M to 444 arts and culture organizations in Tennessee across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
67% of that came from funders also based in Tennessee; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Tennessee is Community Foundation, at $31M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Frist Art Museum, at $24M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Tennessee

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Tennessee, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Community Foundation$31M 2Corporation for Public Broadcasting$19M 3The Robert E & Jenny D Kirkland$16M 4The Frist Foundation$14M 5The Community Foundation of Middle$13M 6Frist Art Museum Foundation$7M 7Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$6M 8Jr Hyde III Family Foundation$6M 9Christian Community Foundation Of$5M 10Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$5M

Arts and culture organizations in Tennessee that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

434 other arts and culture organizations$151M

Frist Art Museum$24M Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc$16M Discovery Park of America Inc$16M Dixon Gallery and Gardens$9M

How to find arts and culture funders in Tennessee

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Start with the funders already active in Tennessee
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Tennessee are Community Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Robert E & Jenny D Kirkland. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
33% of arts and culture money in Tennessee comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Tennessee.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Tennessee?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Tennessee, currently Community Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The Robert E & Jenny D Kirkland. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Tennessee from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Tennessee?: Community Foundation gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Tennessee, $31M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Tennessee?: $249M reached 444 arts and culture organizations in Tennessee, from 890 funders. 67% came from funders also based in Tennessee.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.