· Private foundation
The James and Laura Rogers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - ATHLETICS FOUNDATION | $762,500 |
| KINGSPORT HOMELESS MINISTRY INC | $300,000 |
| BARTER FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS | $100,000 |
| NETHERLAND INN AND BOATYARD HISTORIC SITE | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SOSYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS6× · 2018–2025 · $524k · revenue +65% · 32% of their budget
- BSBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah2× · 2017–2019 · $500k · revenue +18%
- KHKINGSPORT HOMELESS MINISTRY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $500k · revenue +722% · 75% of their budget
Funded once
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $750k
- SMSMALL MIRACLESone grant, 2022 · $109k
- TNTHE NETHERLAND INN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $86k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Providing a safe and humane animal shelter for unwanted animals in Hawkins County.
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
Case management, daycenter, guest support, rapid rehousing, homeless prevention and transportation for homeless families with children.
To provide court-appointed special advocates to child victims of abuse and neglect. The programs vision is a safe, permanent, loving home for every child it serves.
Advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
Animal welfare
To care for, protect and place animals for adoption in lifelong homes, and to prevent cruelty to animals by educating our community in the proper and humane care of animals
Public welfare, specifically the rescue and temporary housing of dogs, cats, and other animals. To reunite lost pets with their owners and match homeless pets with a loving family.
Our mission is to prevent cruelty, abuse, and negligence of animals and to promote the humane treatment of all animals by educating the general public, establishing subsidized spay and neuter programs, providing shelter to lost and…
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Homeless shelter for families and single adults.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Petworks Animal Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- Who funds KINGSPORT HOMELESS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds KINGSPORT CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds KINGSPORT LIFESAVING AND FIRST AID CREW INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CASA for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER KINGSPORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARMEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Kingsport Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds Petworks Animal Services Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kingsport Inc · Eastman Credit Union · Eastman Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The James and Laura Rogers Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.