· Private foundation
Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FEEDING AMERICA SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MOUNTAIN EMPIRE | $10,000 |
| BRISTOL SPEECH AND HEARING | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BRISTOL HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Arts Alliance Mountain Empire ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massengill-Defriece Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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