First Horizon Foundation
Meeting the financial needs of the people we serve is just part of our story.
First Horizon Foundation is the private charitable foundation of First Horizon National Corporation. Founded in 1993 to serve the communities in which we operate, our Foundation has donated more than $100 million across our footprint.
Most recently, we have established the Louisiana First Horizon Foundation to meet community needs in the state of Louisiana.
Contributions from the Foundation include the following areas:
Arts & Culture
Education & Leadership
Environment
Financial Literacy
Health & Human Services
Arts & Culture
We believe the arts are integral to vibrant, healthy and fulfilling communities.
First Horizon Foundation focuses on supporting organizations that promote excellence and enrichment of arts and culture in our community, which include:
Through our alliance with ArtsMemphis, our ArtsFirst program works to ensure a continued, significant impact in Memphis’ arts community by supporting initiatives for young women from low-income communities involving mentoring and music.
Each year, La Paz Chattanooga provides culturally and linguistically specific programs and services to more than 6,000 area Latinos. Our support has enabled La Paz to establish Chattanooga’s first Latino Cultural Center.
Located in the heart of downtown Boone, North Carolina, the Theatre is a 1930s Art Deco landmark that was all but demolished in 2011. Appalachian Theatre is working to restore the building to its former glory and create an arts and entertainment hub in the North Carolina High Country, and our foundation has contributed to the restoration efforts.
Asian Culture Center of Tennessee aims to promote diverse cultures and to celebrate traditions and talents from the Asian continent. Each year, this organization hosts the annual Knox Asian Festival to bring together people from various cultural backgrounds to promote peace, harmony, unity and healthy lifestyles.
Our Foundation’s support helps the Children's Theatre of Charlotte, North Carolina continue to provide more than 250,000 experiences for children and families each year with technically imaginative productions and wide-ranging education programs for young people.
Education & Leadership
Our Foundation works to invest in educating and developing the next generation of leaders for our communities.
Our grants have enabled organizations to provide scholarships, professorships, after-school programming for underserved youth, and educational resources like GED Basic Education classes. A few of these include:
An arts and science museum in Gray that provides more than 100,000 programs in the arts, sciences and humanities.
A Johnson City nonprofit community center that offers after school programming to underserved youth complete with tutoring, music lessons, athletics and snacks. Since its founding in 1998, Coalition for Kids has served more than 9,000 children in its after school programs.
Through our Foundation’s support, CPCC is able to provide student scholarships through its Opportunity Scholars initiative. Opportunity Scholars is an educational and career-training scholarship program for recent high school graduates from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools with the highest percentage of students living in poverty.
A resource for adults that are under-educated or illiterate that offers free reading, language arts and math classes.
Based in Charleston, South Carolina, Kids on Point provides year-round academic, athletic and enrichment support to underserved youth in the city. The average Kids on Point student spends 450 hours per year with the organization. Our grant helps Kids on Point continue to serve the Charleston community with its vital programming.
Based in Raleigh, Leadership North Carolina develops community leaders and works to improve North Carolina’s quality of life through visionary hands-on programming that integrates the areas of economic development, education, environment, government, and health and human services.
- Boys & Girls Clubs
- Centro de Hispano de East Tennessee’s Adult GED Basic Education classes
- Tennessee Achieves
Environment
As conscious stewards of our environment, we seek to support organizations that are helping create and promote a more sustainable future.
As conscious stewards of our environment, we seek to support organizations that are helping create and promote a more sustainable future. This includes nonprofits that aim to reduce the carbon footprint, create and/or preserve greenspaces and utilize clean energy, such as:
A leader in land conservation working to preserve the unique character of Tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations. Since its founding in 1999, the organization has protected 125,000 acres in more than 70 Tennessee counties.
An organization dedicated to the protection and enhancement of the Wolf River and its watershed as a sustainable natural resource. One of its largest projects has been the creation of the Wolf River Greenway, a paved pathway for bikers, runners and walkers that stretches 30+ miles across the heart of Memphis.
A nonprofit working to ensure that East Tennessee enjoys exceptional recreational opportunities, natural beauty and open spaces, and that those assets exist for generations to come. Since 2007, Legacy Parks has helped conserve 1,000 acres of forest and farmland, and added over 500 acres of parkland in Knox County.
A nonprofit organization in partnership with Center City Park, LeBauer Park and the city of Greensboro, North Carolina that focuses on the public activation, maintenance and overall vitality of the city’s downtown parks. Through our Foundation’s grant, free movie nights were hosted in LeBauer Park in summer 2018.
Financial Literacy
Our Foundation believes it is imperative to promote financial literacy within our communities.
We seek to support organizations that are working to promote financial literacy and teach sound money habits to all ages in our communities. These include:
A financial literacy program designed to spark high school girls’ interest in finance careers. Upon completion of the program, girls’ comprehension of financial concepts improves by an average of 97 percent.
The University of Tennessee Extension’s Youth Consumer and Financial Education program, which teaches financial and budgeting skills to nearly 50,000 students annually across Tennessee.
The Knoxville Area Urban League’s Homeownership Center Homebuyer Education classes, Foreclosure Counseling, and Financial Fitness classes. Knoxville Area Urban League’s mission is to enable African Americans, other minority groups and the underserved to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights. The organization regularly offers free and low-cost classes for community members.
First Horizon Foundation provided a grant to expand the Raleigh museum’s financial literacy exhibit, “Polly’s Professional Pet Care.” The exhibit helps bring financial education to life for children of all ages in a bright, interactive play space.
Our contribution is helping update the museum’s ‘Smart Money’ program for elementary school-age children. The grant will also be used to better integrate financial literacy programs throughout the museum’s exhibits.
Health & Human Services
First Horizon Foundation strives to support organizations that work to meet our community needs and improve the well-being of our neighbors through health and human services initiatives.
The First Horizon Foundation also supports healthcare institutions across The South, including:
An organization which helps low-income elderly, disabled and veteran homeowners stay in their homes as long as possible by mitigating health and safety hazards and improving their home's overall stability.
North Carolina is the 10th hungriest state in the U.S., and Inter-Faith Food Shuttle helps serve more than 60,000 adults and children struggling with hunger each month across its seven county service area. First Horizon Foundation contributed to the organization’s “Backpack Buddies” program, which provides backpacks filled with food to children during school breaks and summer.
Our Foundation’s support helps Homeward Bound serve individuals and families experiencing homelessness. By providing housing and support, the organization seeks to end homelessness and has helped nearly 2,000 individuals move into permanent housing since 2006. In addition, First Horizon Bank employees volunteer with the organization by serving meals at Room in the Inn, the nonprofit’s shelter-to-home program for women experiencing homelessness in Asheville.
One of the oldest and largest community health centers exclusively dedicated to the well-being of children and families in the state, the Institute for Child & Family Health serves more than 30,000 individuals per year. Our Foundation’s grant helps fund health, behavioral health, educational and prevention services.
Our Foundation’s support helps Homeward Bound serve individuals and families experiencing homelessness. By providing housing and support, the organization seeks to end homelessness and has helped nearly 2,000 individuals move into permanent housing since 2006. In addition, First Horizon Bank employees volunteer with the organization by serving meals at Room in the Inn, the nonprofit’s shelter-to-home program for women experiencing homelessness in Asheville.
- St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
- Mental Health Association of East Tennessee
- East Tennessee State University College of Pharmacy
- American Heart Association, and many more.
