· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KING UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $17,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $11,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST GOSPEL OUTREACH | $2,000 |
| WINGFIELD MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| HUMAN COALITION | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR CHRIST COMMUNITY RESPONSE | $1,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $750 |
| Appalachian Educational Communication Corp | $750 |
| BRISTOL TRAIN STATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BRISTOL COMMUNITY PRAYER BREAKFAST | $500 |
| GOOD NEWS GLOBAL | $500 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $500 |
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 (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
33 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES4× · 2021–2024 · $41k · revenue +54%
- WMWINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +29%
- BFBrothers for Christ Community Response4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- LELaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fundgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100 · revenue +31%
- ODOPEN DOORS USAone grant, 2022 · $100
- CACHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100 · revenue +34%
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.
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Trinity equips men and women with a christian world view of leadership and service in life, work and minsitry through distance education that encourages professional and academic excellence.
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
To provide for advent christian education through certificate programs and partnerships with gorden-conwell theological seminary and eastern university.
In accordance with the mandate of matthew 28:19-20 and 2 timothy 2:2, alaska bible college seeks to train servants who lead with christlike character by 1.) nurturing students in bible-based, academic programs that solidify their christian…
Serving the chrisitan community in the strengthening of local churches, promoting responsible christian character and maturity through educational programs, and preparing graduates for vocational and volunteer church-related service.
Mission of challenge, nurture, community: carson-newman college offers a christian, liberal arts education in an environment that encourages open intellectual inquiry and deeper spiritual maturity. students receive a personalized education…
To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.
Christian college preparing students for principled leadership around the world.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turning Point Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bristol Community Prayer Breakfast. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 45 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 KING UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds WINGFIELD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Christ Community Response ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN EDUCATIONAL COMM CORP ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAVEN OF REST RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Bristol Trainstation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Believe in Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 713 Sequoyah ↗
- Who funds BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds Theology Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL COMMUNITY PRAYER BREAKFAST ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MENDOTA TRAIL CONSERVANCY 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: 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
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 Frizzell 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.