The East Tennessee Foundation is seeking applications for its Opportunity Endowment Fund.
Donor Name: East Tennessee Foundation
State: Tennessee
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/30/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Through investing in the effectiveness and future sustainability of East Tennessee’s nonprofit community, this fund supports the capacity building of charitable organizations in ETF’s 25-county service area and their ability to collectively address the community’s needs.
Areas of Focus
Grants awarded from these funds are to help organizations identify collaborative solutions and utilize partnerships to improve operational, financial, data/information, and programmatic systems so that together, they have a cohesive impact on the community. The Foundation is prioritizing prevention-focused projects which address adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), drivers of health, and early childhood education. Additionally, preference will be given to organizations collaborating together on a shared project.
Requests should indicate if there are matching funds to support the proposed project. The East Tennessee Foundation values the spirit and potential for collective, community-level impact of organizations who work together and can leverage funds to secure other support, and ETF believes in organizations’ abilities to work together to address shared problems faced by the communities. The Foundation also appreciates projects with outcomes that can be shared across organizations’ networks and/or easily duplicated among similar charitable organizations.
Examples of this work include but are not limited to projects that:
- Bring organizations together to improve efficiencies and/or sustainability
- Enhance and/or streamline evaluation/outcome, human resources, operational, or logistics systems
- Create long-term financial systems and plans
- Develop improved donor engagement and education strategies
- Build effective leadership and boards of directors
- Assess community needs and promote data sharing
- Grow professional development and continuing education opportunities for the field
- Convene peers and subject matter experts
- Increase access to quality information technology and infrastructure
- Help organizations diversify revenue streams.
Funding Information
Organizations can apply for an amount up to $25,000.
Grant Period
1 year.
Who may apply?
501(c)(3) public charity, unit of government, or public educational institution are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit ETF.
