· Private foundation
Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKY MOUNT MUSEUM | $46,295 |
| PARAMOUNT THEATER | $35,000 |
| THEATRE BRISTOL | $30,000 |
| BARTER THEATER | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $14,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| BRISTOL SPEECH AND HEARING | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MOUNTAIN EMPIRE | $10,000 |
| BRISTOL FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| BIRTHPLACE OF COUNTRY MUSIC MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| SULLIVAN COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| KINGSPORT BALLET | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL4× · 2017–2022 · $52k · revenue +96%
- FSFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA6× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +24%
- SCSullivan County Imagination Library8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF STEELE CREEK PARKone grant, 2017 · $50k
- MTMENDOTA TRAIL CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -94%
- FIFriends in Need Health Center Incone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +4%
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 the united way of bristol is to bring together the resources to help people in the regional community to live healthy and productive lives. united way bristol works with dozens of community partner agencies that provide…
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
To help local farms thrive, link farmers to markets and supporters, and build healthy communities through connections to local food.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Production of live theatre and other performance entertainment. Celebrate the art and culture of the Southern Appalachian region. Attract nonresidents to the local area, thereby providing additional patronage to local businesses and…
To provide quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of east tennessee and southwest virginia
Backroads of appalachia is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide new economic opportunities within the communities of eastern kentucky and southwest virginia.
Preserving, interpreting, and developing the heritage resources of the North Carolina mountains.
Purpose of the organization is to provide comprehensive community behavioral health services to the local community including mental health, substance abuse and mental retardation/developmental disability services.
Public Education & Journal Publication. The mission of the Appalachian Studies Association is to promote and engage dialogue, research, scholarship, education, creative expression, and action among scholars, educators, practitioners,…
Volunteer East Tennessee inspires service by equipping organizations and mobilizing volunteers to connect with one another and strengthen communities.
To provide infants, children, and adults of NE Tennessee and SW Virginia with the hightest quality and cost effective evaluation, treatment, and education for speech, language, hearing and swallowing disorders regardless of an individuals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Southwest Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 51 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 FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Sullivan County Imagination Library ↗
- Who funds RISE UP INC ↗
- Who funds Theatre Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association ↗
- Who funds MENDOTA TRAIL CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends in Need Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Sullivan County Family Justice Cent ↗
- Who funds Arts Alliance Mountain Empire ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER 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: Speedway Children's Charities · The McGlothlin Foundation · The United Company Foundation · United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc · The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat · Clarke Charitable Foundation · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc 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.
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