· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSYMPHONY OF THE MOUNTAINS6× · 2018–2025 · $524k · revenue +64% · 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James and Laura Rogers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James and Laura Rogers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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