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Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation DBA BFF Cumberland Trust Tte

Accepts applications Lenoir City, Tennessee · EIN 581788548

Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation DBA BFF Cumberland Trust Tte is a private foundation in Lenoir City, Tennessee. In tax year 2025 it gave $109,750 in 11 grants; the typical grant was $7,500 and the largest $45,000. It accepts applications; its filing gives the instructions below.

From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2025.

Giving in 2025 was down from $222,750 the year before.

10% of its 2025 grantees had not received a grant from it the year before, so most of its money goes to organizations it already funds.

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants paidNumber of grantsAssets
2024$222,75023$299,813
2025$109,75011$178,512

How to apply

ContactLucille S Thompson Family Foundatio
2492 Fieldstone Drive, Lenoir City, TN 37772
Phone or email(865) 806-6989, lpfleger@ltff.org
What to submitSubmit a letter of request including a detail project budget.
RestrictionsFunding not available for deficit operating budgets or endowments. Limited availabile funds for capital projects.

As written in the foundation's IRS filing for tax year 2025. Details may have changed since.

IRS filings on ProPublica

What Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation DBA BFF Cumberland Trust Tte funds

Where it gives

Its US grants went to recipients in 7 states, the most to South Carolina. It also paid $10,000 in 1 grant to recipients outside the US.

StateGrantsAmount
South Carolina1$45,000
Colorado2$12,500
Idaho1$10,000
North Carolina1$10,000
Florida3$9,750
Washington1$7,500
Tennessee1$5,000

Grants paid in 2025

All 11 grants
RecipientPurposeAmount
Individual
SC
Annual fund$45,000
Duke University
Durham, NC
Trinity fund$10,000
Bruern Abbey SchoolAnnual fund$10,000
Flourish Foundation
Ketchum, ID
Annual fund$10,000
Rite of Passage Journeys
Bothel, WA
Youth programs$7,500
True Nature Healing Arts Foundation
Carbondale, CO
Connection is medicine program$7,500
Salvation Army of Palm Beach Co
West Palm Beach, FL
Annual fund$6,500
Helen Ross McNabb Foundation
Knoxville, TN
Knoxville challenger$5,000
Pathfinders
Aspen, CO
Program services$5,000
The Benjamin School
North Palm Beach, FL
Annual fund$2,000
Bethesda-By-The-Sea Church
Palm Beach, FL
General donation$1,250

Officers and trustees

As listed in Part VIII of the 2025 filing.

Questions people ask

Does Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation DBA BFF Cumberland Trust Tte accept grant applications?

Yes. Its latest IRS filing says it accepts applications.

How much does Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation DBA BFF Cumberland Trust Tte give?

$109,750 in tax year 2025, across 11 grants, with a typical grant of $7,500.

Who runs Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation DBA BFF Cumberland Trust Tte?

Its 2025 filing lists Kristin B Macdermott (Board Member), Sandra K Bishop (Chairman), Archer W Bishop Jr (Board Member) and Archer W Bishop III (Board Member) among 9 officers and trustees.

What does Lucille S Thompson Fam Foundation DBA BFF Cumberland Trust Tte fund?

Based on its grants, mainly education.

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