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7 foundations that funded “Roger”
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Private foundation · Knoxville
Roger B & Evelyn W Paddison Charitable Foundation
Takes applications
20 Tennessee grants totaling $157,000 · typical grant $4,000 to $12,000 (tax year 2025)
Stated deadlines: Jan 31 · next Jan 31, 2027 (from its 2025 IRS filing; confirm with the foundation)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Mobile meals; Educational; Funding the roger b & evelyn w paddison scholarship
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Anderson-Rogers Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $18,000 · typical grant $18,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support provide service dogs and training to disabled veterans in need as they return to civilian life, and reducing overcrowding in animal shelters.
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Private foundation · San Antonio, TX
Butt Rogers Charitable Trust
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $5,000 · typical grant $5,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Knoxville
Frank and Virginia Rogers Foundation
Takes applications
7 Tennessee grants totaling $49,519 · typical grant $4,500 to $10,000 (tax year 2025)
29% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Private foundation · Holbrook, NY
Robert and Jean Rogers Charitable Foundation Inc.
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,500 · typical grant $1,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2025)
No fixed deadline, per its 2025 IRS filing
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Research and aid
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Private foundation · Canonsburg, PA
Cnx Foundation
Takes applications
1 Tennessee grant totaling $10,000 · typical grant $10,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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United Way · Rogersville
United Way of Hawkins County Inc.
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $48,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $17,500 (tax year 2025)
25% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Source: each funder's latest e-filed IRS return. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which lists the grants they paid and how to apply. Community foundations, United Ways and other public charities file Form 990, and we use its Schedule I (grants over $5,000). We include every funder, wherever it is based, whose latest return lists grants to Tennessee groups. Corporate and community-foundation grant rounds are in the grant search.