Tractor Supply Grants 2026: Foundation and FFA Guide
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Quick Answer: There's no open Tractor Supply grant application for organizations on November 12, 2026.
Full answer and how we checked it
The Tractor Supply Company Foundation doesn't publish a grant form, and its 2025 return shows 46 grants worth $2,645,350, mostly to national partners and Tennessee groups, plus 3,329 Hometown Heroes gifts of $250 or $500 that stores picked. The real routes are the company's year-round sponsorship and donation form, FFA's Grants for Growing (up to $5,000 per FFA chapter, next application March 1, 2027) and 4-H Paper Clover money that flows through state 4-H programs.
Who this is for: This guide is for FFA chapters, 4-H clubs, county fairs, animal rescues, volunteer fire departments, veterans posts and rural nonprofits that searched for Tractor Supply grants and want to know what they can actually ask for. It covers each giving route, its status on November 12, 2026, and who the foundation paid in 2025. Grantsights isn't affiliated with Tractor Supply or its foundation.
Data note: Grant figures come from the Tractor Supply Company Foundation (EIN 84-3668757, Brentwood, Tennessee), a private foundation that files Form 990-PF for the calendar year. Grantsights parsed all 3,375 grants on Part XIV line 3a of its 2025 return, worth $3,810,350, which matches the return's own line 3a total. Grantsights then set aside 3,329 Hometown Heroes gifts worth $1,165,000 (1,998 at $250 and 1,331 at $500, in 49 states). Tractor Supply's own releases say each store chose its local fire, police or veteran recipient, so no organization could apply for one, and a record of 500+ small gifts across 40+ states is the pattern Grantsights treats as employee-directed giving. That leaves 46 grants worth $2,645,350, which the tables below describe. The 2025 return shows no employee matching gifts, no payments to giving platforms and no grants to individuals. The 2023 return did include 2 employee giving payments worth $55,000 (to the American Online Giving Foundation and the UK Online Giving Foundation), which are left out of the 2023 figures cited here.
Last updated: 2026-11-12.
In this guide
- Tractor Supply grants open now: 6 routes checked November 12, 2026
- What each Tractor Supply route really is
- Grants for Growing: the Tractor Supply grant FFA chapters can apply for
- 4-H Paper Clover: money that reaches clubs through 4-H
- Who actually gets Tractor Supply Foundation grants
- How to ask Tractor Supply for support, step by step
- What Tractor Supply's Giving Pages Don't Tell You
- Better routes for fire departments, rescues and rural groups
- How Grantsights Checked This Guide
- Sources
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Tractor Supply grants open now: 6 routes checked November 12, 2026
Grantsights checked 6 Tractor Supply giving routes on November 12, 2026. Only 1 takes requests from any nonprofit today, and it's a sponsorship and donation form, not a foundation grant program.
| Tractor Supply route | Pays for | Who can apply | Published amount | Status on November 12, 2026 | Source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tractor Supply Company Foundation grants | Ag education, land and water, pets and animals, Hometown Heroes | No public application | Not published (2025 median $50,000 among 46 grants) | No open call. No form, guidelines or deadline posted | Community Areas of Focus (opens in a new tab) |
| Sponsorship and donation requests | Event, general and rodeo sponsorships; monetary or product donations | Tax-exempt organizations near a store | Form caps requests at $200,000 | Form online. No deadline posted | TSC Sponsorships (opens in a new tab) |
| FFA Grants for Growing | Classroom, chapter and ag awareness projects | Middle and high school FFA chapters | Up to $5,000 per chapter | Closed. 2027 application March 1 to May 17, 2027 | FFA: Grants for Growing (opens in a new tab) |
| 4-H Paper Clover | 4-H scholarships, camps, leadership programs | State 4-H programs decide | 90% stays in the state where raised | Campaign-based. Winter 2026 dates not in Tractor Supply's newsroom | Spring 2026 Paper Clover release (opens in a new tab) |
| Hometown Heroes store gifts | Local fire, police, military and veteran groups | Chosen by each store | $250 per store in 2026 | Not open to requests. 2026 gifts set for November 7 | Hometown Heroes 2026 release (opens in a new tab) |
| Relief for Rescues Fund | Shelters and rescues hit by disasters | Run by MuttNation Foundation | Not published | No application process described | Relief for Rescues 2026 release (opens in a new tab) |
Recently closed: the 2026 Grants for Growing application, which Tractor Supply's March 24, 2026 release said ran until May 15, and the 2026 Hometown Heroes Day on November 7, when Tractor Supply said each store would give $250.
Our honest read: Tractor Supply gives a lot through its stores and customers, but almost none of it is a grant an outside nonprofit can apply for. The FFA and 4-H routes work well for those two youth programs. Everyone else is really asking for a sponsorship or a product donation.
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What each Tractor Supply route really is
According to Tractor Supply's Community page, the company and its foundation donated more than $15 million to charitable causes in 2025, counting direct giving, sponsorships and fundraisers. The foundation's own return paid $3.81 million that year, about a quarter of that figure. The rest runs through the company and customer checkout campaigns.
The foundation. Tractor Supply's Areas of Focus page lists 4 priorities: investing in the next generation of Life Out Here, preserving land and water and protecting pets and animals, honoring Hometown Heroes, and being a good neighbor where its stores operate. None of those pages links to a grant application. On paper, the 2025 990-PF leaves unchecked the box that says the foundation gives only to preselected charities, and it names a contact at 5401 Virginia Way in Brentwood, but it answers "NONE" for the form of application, deadlines and restrictions. Read that as "you can write," not as an open program.
Sponsorship and donation requests. The company's Community page links "Sponsorship Requests" to tscsponsorships.com. Grantsights loaded the form on November 12, 2026. It asks whether you want a monetary or product donation, the sponsorship type (event, general, individual or rodeo), the state of the store closest to your event, whether you already partner with that store, your organization's primary focus, nonprofit status and tax ID, and a copy of your tax-exempt letter. Its focus choices include 4H/FFA, livestock, rodeo, veterans and military, animal protection, youth development and environment. A request above $200,000 won't submit.
Fairs. According to Tractor Supply's September 24, 2026 release, the company will support more than 1,000 state and county fairs in 2026 through local sponsorships, in-store activations and product donations. It doesn't describe a separate fair application, so a fair board's request goes through the same sponsorship form.
FFA Future Leaders Scholarship. This one is for individual students, not organizations. According to Tractor Supply's 2026 releases, it's a $5 million, five-year scholarship commitment started in 2022.
Grants for Growing: the Tractor Supply grant FFA chapters can apply for
Grants for Growing is the closest thing to an open Tractor Supply grant, and it's only for FFA chapters. According to the National FFA Organization's Grants for Growing page, checked November 12, 2026, middle and high school FFA chapters may apply for up to $5,000 for project-based or experiential learning. Customers fund it by buying paper FFA emblems at Tractor Supply checkouts.
| Grants for Growing detail | What FFA and Tractor Supply say |
|---|---|
| Who applies | Middle and high school FFA chapters |
| Maximum grant | $5,000 per chapter |
| Project areas | Grow Your Classroom, Grow Your FFA Chapter, Grow Your Ag Awareness |
| 2026 emblem campaign | Started February 19, 2026; raised more than $1 million |
| 2026 application | Opened March 3, 2026; ran until May 15, 2026 |
| 2027 emblem sales | February 22 to March 7, 2027 |
| 2027 application | Opens March 1, 2027; closes May 17, 2027 |
| 2027 award notice | August 2, 2027 |
Tractor Supply's February 18, 2026 release says customers have given nearly $9 million to local FFA chapters through the program since 2016, and that the 2025 campaign raised nearly $1 million. FFA's page says chapters don't have to help sell emblems to receive funding, though many work the in-store event during National FFA Week.
Common mistake: sending a Grants for Growing request to Tractor Supply's sponsorship form. The application runs through FFA's own system, linked from the FFA page, and it's open only in the spring window.
Other agricultural education routes are listed in grants for farmers and agriculture, which covers USDA and foundation programs for ag projects and teachers.
4-H Paper Clover: money that reaches clubs through 4-H
The Paper Clover campaign runs twice a year at checkout. According to Tractor Supply's April 16, 2026 release, 90% of donations support 4-H youth in the state where they were made and 10% supports national 4-H programming, and the partnership has raised more than $26 million. The spring 2026 campaign ran April 17 to May 3. The winter 2025 campaign ran November 28 to December 14, 2025, per Tractor Supply's November 25, 2025 release. Tractor Supply hadn't posted winter 2026 dates in its newsroom when Grantsights checked on November 12, 2026.
A club doesn't apply to Tractor Supply for this money. Your county Extension office and state 4-H program decide how the state's share is used, often for camp and leadership scholarships. Ask your county 4-H agent how your state spends it and whether clubs that volunteer at the store event get a share.
A foundation extra in 2026: the April release says local 4-H organizations competed at Demo Days on April 25, 2026 for bonus grants from the Tractor Supply Company Foundation of $10,000, $5,000 and $1,000, based on state fundraising results. The 2025 return shows what that kind of money looks like: Simpson County 4-H Council in Kentucky received $5,000, Pulaski County 4H Foundation in Arkansas received $5,000, and Bevier School 4-H in Montana received $1,500.
See grants for 4-H clubs for state, Extension and foundation routes that a club can apply to directly.
Who actually gets Tractor Supply Foundation grants
Grantsights analysis of the foundation's 2025 990-PF shows 46 grants worth $2,645,350 once the store-picked Hometown Heroes gifts are set aside. According to our analysis, that's 69% of the $3,810,350 the return lists. The median was $50,000, and grants ran from $1,500 to $280,750. That's a funder of big, repeat partnerships, not small local requests.
| Grant size (2025, excluding Hometown Heroes gifts) | Grants | Total paid |
|---|---|---|
| Under $5,000 | 3 | $7,100 |
| $5,000 | 9 | $45,000 |
| $5,001 to $24,999 | 7 | $95,000 |
| $25,000 to $49,999 | 3 | $75,000 |
| $50,000 to $99,999 | 9 | $460,000 |
| $100,000 to $149,999 | 11 | $1,132,500 |
| $150,000 and up | 4 | $830,750 |
| Total | 46 | $2,645,350 |
The 4 largest grants went to the National FFA Foundation ($280,750), National 4-H Council ($250,000), Cheekwood Botanical Garden in Nashville ($150,000) and the Tennessee chapter of Folds of Honor ($150,000). Together, National FFA Foundation and National 4-H Council took $530,750, about 20% of the analyzed dollars.
Where the money went by state
| State | Grants (2025) | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 14 | $848,600 |
| Washington, D.C. (national groups) | 3 | $450,000 |
| California | 3 | $310,000 |
| Indiana | 2 | $285,750 |
| Texas | 3 | $155,000 |
| Florida | 2 | $124,500 |
| New York | 2 | $105,000 |
| Montana | 2 | $101,500 |
Tennessee, home of the Brentwood headquarters, took about 32% of the analyzed dollars. The Tennessee list reads like a headquarters giving program: Cheekwood, Friends of Franklin Parks ($60,000), The Land Trust for Tennessee ($50,000), Operation Stand Down ($50,000), Saddle Up ($25,000) and Friends of Warner Park ($15,000). The 46 grants reached 18 states in all.
What the foundation paid for
The 2025 return lists every one of the 46 purposes as "general support," so Grantsights grouped recipients by name into Tractor Supply's own focus areas.
| Focus area (grouped by recipient) | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hometown Heroes partners (veterans, first responders) | 11 | $965,000 | 36% |
| Ag education and youth (FFA, 4-H, schools) | 12 | $627,250 | 24% |
| Land, water and parks | 11 | $623,600 | 24% |
| Pets, service dogs and horses | 11 | $379,500 | 14% |
| Other (Make-A-Wish) | 1 | $50,000 | 2% |
For example, Team Rubicon received $110,000, K-9's For Warriors received $122,500, the National Volunteer Fire Council received $100,000, and Operation Homefront received $100,000 in 2025. Tractor Supply's June 18, 2025 release described a $1 million Hometown Heroes gift split among 10 national organizations, which is where most of that first row comes from.
Small local grants do exist
12 of the 46 grants were $5,000 or less, worth $52,100 in all. One organization in Texas, Center Point Volunteer Fire Department, received $5,000. Franklin Simpson High School FFA in Kentucky, the Humane Society of Hamilton County in Indiana and John Bowne High School in New York each received $5,000, and Owl's Hill Sanctuary in Tennessee received $3,600. These look like store- or event-linked gifts rather than answers to cold letters, so don't read them as proof of an open process.
The Hometown Heroes gifts set aside
The 3,329 gifts excluded above are the largest part of the return by count. By recipient name, about 1,690 went to fire departments and rescue squads, about 1,204 to police and sheriff's offices, and about 321 to VFW and American Legion posts and other veterans groups. Texas had the most (349 gifts). Examples from the 2025 list: Abilene Fire Department in Texas received $500, Yreka Volunteer Fire Department in California received $500, VFW Post 3392 in Kewaunee, Wisconsin received $250, and Muskegon Township Fire Department in Michigan received $250.
According to Tractor Supply's November 1, 2025 release, more than 2,300 stores each gave $500 to a local fire, police or veteran organization they chose. Its November 3, 2026 release says the 2026 gift was $250 per store, again chosen by each participating store.
How to ask Tractor Supply for support, step by step
There are 5 practical steps, based on Tractor Supply's community pages, its sponsorship form and FFA's page, all checked November 12, 2026.
- Pick the right route first. FFA chapters use Grants for Growing through FFA. 4-H clubs go through their county Extension office. Everyone else uses the sponsorship and donation form.
- Get your tax-exempt paperwork ready. The form asks for your nonprofit tax ID and an uploaded copy of your tax-exempt letter. A unit covered by a parent group, such as a post or chapter, may rely on its parent's group exemption: IRS Publication 557 (opens in a new tab) explains that a group exemption letter covers subordinates such as chapters, locals and posts, each with its own EIN.
- Visit the store manager. Name the nearest store in your request, and say whether you already work with it. A store team that knows your fair, rescue or fire department is the most direct path to local product donations and event support.
- Submit at tscsponsorships.com. Choose monetary or product donation, describe the event or program, give the requested amount, and say whether Tractor Supply supported you before. No deadline is posted, so send it well ahead of your event.
- Write to the foundation only if you fit its partners. If your work is a Tennessee land, park or veterans program, or a national ag education, pet or first-responder group, a short letter to the foundation's Brentwood address is reasonable. Expect no reply if you don't fit.
Red flag: any website charging a fee to "apply for a Tractor Supply grant." Tractor Supply's own routes are free, and the foundation doesn't run an open application.
What Tractor Supply's Giving Pages Don't Tell You
Grantsights checked Tractor Supply's giving pages against the foundation's 2023, 2024 and 2025 returns, and 5 things stood out.
1. The foundation's count is mostly store gifts. 3,329 of the 3,375 grants on the 2025 return were Hometown Heroes gifts of $250 or $500. Anyone reading the raw count could underestimate how few organizations got a real foundation grant: 46.
2. Grants got bigger and fewer in 2025. The 2024 return listed 71 grants worth $3,056,976 in 21 states, with a median of $10,000 and 31 grants of exactly $5,000. In 2025 the non-store grants fell to 46, and the median rose to $50,000. The small $5,000 local grants that marked 2024 mostly disappeared, replaced by store gifts.
3. Repeat partners dominate. 26 of the 46 organizations funded in 2025 were also on the 2024 return, including National FFA Foundation, National 4-H Council, Team Rubicon, Ducks Unlimited, Trout Unlimited and Cheekwood. Tractor Supply's October 7, 2025 release says the foundation renewed Ducks Unlimited and Trout Unlimited for five years at $50,000 a year each. A new organization is competing with multi-year partners.
4. Customer campaigns don't appear to run through the foundation. Shoppers gave more than $1 million to Grants for Growing in 2026 and nearly $1 million in 2025, yet the foundation's 2025 grant to the National FFA Foundation was $280,750. The return can't show where the checkout money went, but it suggests most FFA and 4-H checkout money moves outside this filer.
5. The return and the website disagree about requests. The 990-PF doesn't check the "preselected charities only" box, but Tractor Supply's pages describe no foundation application at all. Go by the website and the giving pattern, and treat a letter as a long shot.
How small local support really is: a store's Hometown Heroes gift was $250 in 2026. A fair or rescue's realistic first ask from Tractor Supply is product or a modest sponsorship, not a five-figure foundation grant.
Better routes for fire departments, rescues and rural groups
Tractor Supply's 2025 store gifts reached about 1,690 fire departments, but at $250 or $500 each they won't buy equipment. FEMA's Assistance to Firefighters Grant program (opens in a new tab) is the larger route. According to FEMA, the FY 2025 application period is closed and FY 2025 awards were announced on September 30, 2026, as checked November 12, 2026. Plan for the next cycle with the Assistance to Firefighters Grant guide and grants for volunteer fire departments.
Animal rescues should look at grants for animal rescues and grants for animal shelters. Veterans posts can use grants for veterans organizations. Small-town groups should see federal grants for rural organizations and the best grants for rural nonprofits in 2026. Tennessee groups near the headquarters can start with the Tennessee grants guide.
Other company funders with rural reach: Union Pacific's Local Grants open each April to 501(c)(3)s in listed rail towns across 23 states, a real application where Tractor Supply has none. T-Mobile Hometown Grants ended in 2026, and that guide lists the small-town placemaking routes that replace it. Veterans groups building housing should read the Home Depot Foundation guide, whose Veteran Housing Grants take proposals on a published schedule. More company programs are in corporate grants for nonprofits.
Grantsights tools: Grantsights' youth funder lists group private foundations that gave to youth programs by state, built from their own 990-PF filings, with a free preview of your state.
How Grantsights Checked This Guide
Grantsights checked 9 Tractor Supply and FFA pages and 3 foundation returns on November 12, 2026. ProPublica's records list the Tractor Supply Company Foundation at 5401 Virginia Way, Brentwood, Tennessee, under EIN 84-3668757, with tax exemption issued June 2020.
| Page or filing | Finding on November 12, 2026 | Use it to |
|---|---|---|
| Tractor Supply Community and Areas of Focus pages | More than $15 million donated in 2025; 4 focus areas; Sponsorship Requests link | Size the giving and pick a route |
| TSC Sponsorships request form | Monetary or product requests; tax-exempt letter; $200,000 cap | Prepare a request |
| FFA Grants for Growing page | Up to $5,000 per chapter; 2027 application March 1 to May 17 | Time an FFA application |
| Tractor Supply releases, 2025 and 2026 | Hometown Heroes $500 (2025) and $250 (2026) store gifts; Paper Clover 90% in-state; DU and TU renewals | Understand the store and partner programs |
| Foundation 990-PF, 2025 | 3,375 grants, $3,810,350; 46 non-store grants, $2,645,350, median $50,000 | Find peers and realistic asks |
| Foundation 990-PF, 2024 | 71 grants, $3,056,976, median $10,000 | Check trends and repeat grantees |
| Foundation 990-PF, 2023 | 57 grants, $2,344,500 | Check older partners |
The 2025 return was submitted August 11, 2026. Per the IRS private foundation annual return (opens in a new tab) page, a calendar-year foundation's 990-PF is due May 15, so an extended return arriving in late summer is normal. The 990-PF reading guide shows where the line 3a grant list sits.
Sources
- Tractor Supply: Community Overview (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: Community Areas of Focus (opens in a new tab)
- TSC Sponsorships request form (opens in a new tab)
- National FFA Organization: Grants for Growing (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: 11th Annual Grants for Growing Campaign (February 18, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: Grants for Growing Surpasses $1 Million (March 24, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: Spring 2026 4-H Paper Clover (April 16, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: Winter 2025 Paper Clover (November 25, 2025) (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: National Hometown Heroes Day 2025 (November 1, 2025) (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: Hometown Heroes 2026 (November 3, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: Conservation renewals with Ducks Unlimited and Trout Unlimited (October 7, 2025) (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: Support for more than 1,000 fairs (September 24, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- Tractor Supply: Relief for Rescues 2026 (June 17, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer: Tractor Supply Company Foundation filings (opens in a new tab)
- IRS: Private Foundation Annual Return (opens in a new tab)
- IRS: Publication 557, Tax-Exempt Status for Your Organization (opens in a new tab)
- FEMA: Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (opens in a new tab)
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a nonprofit apply for a Tractor Supply Company Foundation grant?
Not through a published application, as checked November 12, 2026. Tractor Supply's community pages describe the foundation's focus areas but post no grant form, deadline or guidelines. The foundation's 2025 990-PF names a contact at the Brentwood, Tennessee headquarters but lists no form, deadlines or limits. The open public route is the company's sponsorship and donation request form at tscsponsorships.com.
How much does the Tractor Supply Foundation give?
Its 2025 990-PF lists 3,375 grants worth $3,810,350. Of those, 3,329 were Hometown Heroes gifts of $250 or $500 that store teams gave to local fire, police and veteran groups. The other 46 grants totaled $2,645,350, with a median of $50,000, and most went to national partners and Tennessee groups.
How do FFA chapters get Tractor Supply's Grants for Growing?
FFA chapters apply to the National FFA Organization, not to Tractor Supply. Chapters can request up to $5,000 for a classroom, chapter or ag awareness project. The 2026 application closed in May. FFA's page lists the 2027 application as March 1 to May 17, 2027, with awards announced August 2, 2027.
Is the 4-H Paper Clover campaign a grant my 4-H club can apply for?
Not directly. Shoppers buy paper clovers at checkout during spring and winter campaigns, and Tractor Supply says 90% of the money supports 4-H youth in the state where it was raised, with 10% going to national 4-H programming. State and county 4-H offices decide how it's used, often for camp and leadership scholarships.
How do I ask Tractor Supply for a donation or sponsorship?
Use the online form at tscsponsorships.com, which Tractor Supply's community page links as Sponsorship Requests. It asks whether you want money or products, the state of the nearest store, your nonprofit status and tax ID, and a copy of your tax-exempt letter. The form won't accept a request above $200,000. Talk to your nearest store manager too.
Does Tractor Supply give grants to fire departments?
Mostly as small store gifts, not grants you can apply for. In 2025, the foundation's return lists 3,329 Hometown Heroes gifts of $250 or $500, about 1,690 of them to fire departments. Stores choose the recipients. For equipment money, FEMA's Assistance to Firefighters Grant program is the larger route.
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