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Frizzell Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
6%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 34
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$2k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations Frizzell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving38$70k24%
FY202332$66k6%
FY202234$71k15%
FY202129$58kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$104kReligion$85kRecreation & Sports$43kHuman Services$10kPhilanthropy$4kArts & Culture$3kHousing & Shelter$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Frizzell Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKing University: $94,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWingfield Ministries Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBrothers for Christ Community Response: $4,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetDuke University: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Educational Comm Corp: $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWashington University: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Educational and Deve Lopmental Opportunity School: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHaven of Rest Rescue Mission Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTri-State Baptist Children's Home Inc: $1,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCornerstone Christian Academy: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelieve in Bristol Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bristol Trainstation Foundation: $1,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHuman Coalition: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlice Lloyd College: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBirthplace of Country Music Inc: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTheology Matters Inc: $800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBristol Community Prayer Breakfast: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCovenant House: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Research Center: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Center for Public Policy Research: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Health Defense: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMendota Trail Conservancy Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Appalachian Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The United Company FoundationVA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Company Foundation · Clarke Charitable Foundation · Food City Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Frizzell Foundation

How much does Frizzell Foundation give?
Frizzell Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $70,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 34 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Frizzell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (32%), Religion (26%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are Frizzell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: King University ($94k), Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($41k), Wingfield Ministries Inc ($5k).
Does Frizzell Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Frizzell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Frizzell Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Company Foundation, Clarke Charitable Foundation, Food City Charitable Foundation.
Where is Frizzell Foundation based?
Frizzell Foundation is based in TN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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