· Private foundation
The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat
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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARTER THEATRE | $45,336 |
| COLD SPRINGS CHURCH | $25,200 |
| MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| THE PEACE CENTER | $8,734 |
| HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER | $8,600 |
| SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| BUCHANAN COUNTY FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $2,500 |
| THE HOPE CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 17 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- BFBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA3× · 2022–2024 · $49k · revenue +22%
- MMMOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +60%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $28k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SCSULLIVAN COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $150k
- KCKING COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- HSHOKIE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
To glorify god by providing a quality, christ-centered education which challenges students and teachers to maximize their potential so that graduates are prepared to further their education while becoming productive christian citizens.
The wise county christian school provides a christian education and academic excellance that glorifies christ and edifies the students by consistently presenting christian world views to children in southwest virignia. it serves between 80…
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…
Covenant christian academy exists to assist parents in educating their children in a way that is both academically excellant and honoring to god preparing students for higher academics as well as life serving christ whole heartedly. a…
The mission of the organization is to provide a powerful voice for abused and neglected children by advocating for each child, within the court's jurisdiction, in order to ensure safety, permancy and an opportunity to thrive.
The organization is operated as a emergency shelter and home for abused, neglected and troubled children of southwest virginia. it provides services for the local departments of social services. it is paid on a fee for service basis by…
Reach out to the homeless, hungry, hurting and hopeless throughout north alabama and southern tennessee with the good news of the gospel of jesus christ.
Street hope tn is a faith-based non-profit with a mission to eliminate sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and provide a safe environment to foster healing and hope through jesus christ. this mission is fulfilled through…
Compassion ministries, inc. demonstrates the love and teachings of jesus christ to local families and to those in remote appalachian and cumberland mountain regions of east tennessee, kentucky, and north carolina by feeding the hungry and…
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casa for Kids Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 108 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 BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL APPALACHIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds HEALING HANDS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPEEDWAY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds THE HOKIE WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Advance Bristol Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNT HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND DEVE LOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CASA for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN LITERACY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BALLAD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BRISTOL TN-VA INC ↗
- Who funds HOLSTON HOME FOR CHILDREN 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 · The James W and Frances Gibson McGlothlin Foundation · Clarke Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Food City Charitable Foundation · The McGlothlin Foundation · Eastman Credit Union · Williams-Berry Charitable Foundation · United Way of Bristol Tn-Va Inc · Ty & Julann Warren Family Foundation · Mountain States Health Alliance · Wellmont Health System
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 The Joe W and Frankie Mae Street Foundat 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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