· Private foundation
Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdn
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $439k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF NORTH CAROLINA | $26,200 |
| SOUTHERN HIGHLAND CRAFT GUILD | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,500 |
| UNC AT CHAPEL HILL | $20,000 |
| TRIANGLE EAST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FDN | $20,000 |
| PRESERVATION GREENSBORO | $20,000 |
| PRESERVATION FUND OF HILLSBOROUGH | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ABERDEEN LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MILTON RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PENLAND POST OFFICE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE | $15,000 |
| CEDAR GROVE FRIENDS MEETING | $15,000 |
| JOHN C CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GREENSBORO | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
36 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 29 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $394k 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
The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +41%- LPLOST PROVINCE CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ARTS3× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +60%
FRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC3× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +273%
Funded once
- THTHE HISTORIC PRSERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $30k
- RCROCKINGHAM CNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYMUSEUone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TATRINITY AME ZION CHURCH INCone grant, 2022 · $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 upcountry history museum connects people, history and culture.
The ICAA advances the appreciation of the priciples of traditional architecture and it's allied arts by engaging educators, students and enthusiats in NC.
The North Carolina History Theater, Inc., is a qualified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to expressing and exploring the unique history of North Carolina through the performing arts, and celebrating the rich diversity of our…
To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.
Preserve and interpret architectural and agricultural life in pitt county and eastern north carolina from 1840 - 1940
The Historic Valdese Foundation is a non-profit organization that attempts to preserve and enhance the heritage and history of Valdese a western North Carolina town of about 5000 people Incorporated on February 25 1976 the Foundation was…
Preservation of items of historical significance in and to the community of spruce pine, alabama.
Preserve and promote history of Abbeville County, SC
To promote and preserve documentation of the history of person county, north carolina
Preservation of histrical buildings
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Perquimans County Restoration Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Caring Services 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 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 178 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 The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Preservation Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds LOST PROVINCE CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PERQUIMANS COUNTY RESTORATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FARMINGTON COMMUNITY ASSOC ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW BERN PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bath High School Preservation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN HIGHLAND HANDICRAFT GUILD ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KORNER'S FOLLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATTERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STECOAH VALLEY ARTS CRAFTS & EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St Josephs Historic Foundation ↗
- Who funds MURFREESBORO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KINSTON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds STARWORKS ↗
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 Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Humanities Council · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Duke Energy Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Hillsdale Fund · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Inc
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 Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdn 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.