Tennessee · Private foundation
Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $46,295
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $225k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $212k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $166k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $189k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $212k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $199k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $187k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $192k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| King University | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Educational and Deve Lopmental Opportunity School | $52,050 | 4 | 2% |
| Feeding Southwest Virginia | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sullivan County Imagination Library | $42,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Rise Up Inc | $30,650 | 8 | 3% |
| Theatre Bristol Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Communities in Schools | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mendota Trail Conservancy Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends in Need Health Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| King University | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for Educational and Deve Lopmental Opportunity School | $52,050 | 4 | 2% |
| Feeding Southwest Virginia | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sullivan County Imagination Library | $42,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Rise Up Inc | $30,650 | 8 | 3% |
| Theatre Bristol Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Communities in Schools | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mendota Trail Conservancy Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends in Need Health Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Appalachian Literacy Initiative | $15,050 | 3 | 4% |
| Sullivan County Family Justice Cent | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bristol Humane Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arts Alliance Mountain Empire | $10,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Appalachian Trail Conservancy | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure | $5,650 | 2 | 2% |
| International Storytelling Center | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healing Hands Health Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grace Manor Inc | $3,600 | 1 | 5% |
| Kingsport Ballet | $3,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc
- How much does Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc give?
- Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $224,795 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Education (14%).
- Who are Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: King University ($60k), Foundation for Educational and Deve Lopmental Opportunity School ($52k), Feeding Southwest Virginia ($50k).
- Does Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Speedway Children's Charities, The McGlothlin Foundation, The United Company Foundation.
- Where is Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc based?
- Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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