The NRA Foundation: Tennessee Grants

The NRA Foundation offers grants to support projects that promote firearms safety, educate about shooting sports, and conduct research for improved safety techniques. Open to nonprofit organizations, these grants focus on initiatives that enhance community engagement with shooting sports. Eligible applicants need not be 501(c)(3) organizations, but must serve a charitable purpose. Organizations like labor unions or private businesses are not eligible, ensuring grants are awarded to those committed to public benefit.

The NRA Foundation provides financial support to eligible projects, programs and organizations through its Grant Program. Each year, volunteer committees from across the country tirelessly raise charitable dollars and generous donors make gifts that are in turn awarded as grants in support of educational and public service programs relating to the shooting sports in our communities.
The general focus of Foundation grants is to:
Promote, advance and encourage firearms, shooting sports and hunting safety.Educate individuals with respect to firearms, firearms history, participation in the shooting sports, hunting safety, and marksmanship.Conduct research in furtherance of improved firearms safety and marksmanship facilities and techniques.

Eligibility

You are not required to be a 501(c)(3) organization to be eligible for an NRA Foundation grant. However, all grants must be for a 501(c)(3) purpose and all grant recipients, other than governmental entities, must be formally recognized as nonprofit organizations by their state or by the IRS.

Ineligibility

The following organizations are NOT eligible for grants:Labor organizations.Private businesses and enterprises, including LLCs.Organizations or groups that do not have a Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) issued by the Internal Revenue Service.Friends of NRA Committees or NRA Foundation State Fund Committees.Individuals.