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Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdn at a glance

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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.

$479k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$320kReligion$314kCommunity Improvement$131kHuman Services$80kEnvironment$49kRecreation & Sports$43kHealth$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $439k
$13,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF NORTH CAROLINA$26,200
SOUTHERN HIGHLAND CRAFT GUILD$25,000
Individual grant recipient$22,500
PRESERVATION GREENSBORO$20,000
UNC AT CHAPEL HILL$20,000
TRIANGLE EAST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FDN$20,000
PENLAND POST OFFICE PROJECT$15,000
CEDAR GROVE FRIENDS MEETING$15,000
FRIENDS OF ABERDEEN LIBRARY$15,000
MAINSPRING CONSERVATION TRUST$15,000
THALIAN HALL CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$15,000
JOHN C CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL$15,000
PRESERVATION SOCIETY ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE$15,000
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH$15,000
PRESERVATION FUND OF HILLSBOROUGH$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $13k → 15%CUMBERLAND COUNTY ASSN FOR INDIAN PEOPLE: $10k → 16%HB SUGG COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 20%BLADEN COUNTY YOUTH FOCUS: $10k → 19%CARING SERVICES INC: $18k → 16%CARING SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 36 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
113

Total granted

$1.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
0%

Still filing today

64%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $394k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +41%
  • LP
    LOST PROVINCE CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ARTS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +60%
  • FRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $38k · revenue +273%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HISTORIC PRSERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • TA
    TRINITY AME ZION CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • RC
    ROCKINGHAM CNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYMUSEU
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Upcountry History Museum

The upcountry history museum connects people, history and culture.

Arts & Culture
2
Institute of Classical Architecture and Art North Carolina Chapter

The ICAA advances the appreciation of the priciples of traditional architecture and it's allied arts by engaging educators, students and enthusiats in NC.

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3
North Carolina History Theater

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…

Arts & Culture
4
The North Caroliniana Society

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.

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5
Eastern Carolina Village & Farm Museum 1840-1940

Preserve and interpret architectural and agricultural life in pitt county and eastern north carolina from 1840 - 1940

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6
Historic Valdese Foundation Inc

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…

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7
Spruce Pine Historical Society

Preservation of items of historical significance in and to the community of spruce pine, alabama.

Arts & Culture
8
Abbeville County Historical Society Inc

Preserve and promote history of Abbeville County, SC

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9
Person County Museum of History Inc

To promote and preserve documentation of the history of person county, north carolina

Arts & Culture
10
Heritage Society of Washington County

Preservation of histrical buildings

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11
Arlington Historical Society
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12
Bechtler Collection Preservation Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Perquimans County Restoration Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 178 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
32/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $227,700 · OtherThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina IncIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · Other+119 more: $1,575,200 · Other+119 morePreservation Greensboro Inc: $51,000 · Arts & CulturePreservation Greensboro …COMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $42,400 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GRE…CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $39,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREE…FRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INCPERQUIMANS COUNTY RESTORATION ASSOCIATION INC: $33,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN HIGHLAND HANDICRAFT GUILD: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBath High School Preservation Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH POINT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureKORNER'S FOLLY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureSTECOAH VALLEY ARTS CRAFTS & EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $22,000 · Arts & Culture+24 more: $299,400 · Arts & Culture+24 moreLOST PROVINCE CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ARTS: $51,000 · EducationMAGNOLIA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 · EducationPATTERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · EducationCULTIVATOR INC: $15,000 · EducationWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $13,000 · EducationCentral Park School for Children: $10,000 · EducationBARTON COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationMONTREAT COLLEGE: $6,900 · EducationCARING SERVICES INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesH B SUGG COMMUNITY CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $12,500 · Human ServicesBLADEN COUNTY YOUTH FOCUS PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesCUMBERLAND COUNTY ASS INDIAN PEOPLE: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTARWORKS: $20,000 · EnvironmentMainspring Conservation Trust Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentOUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentCLAYTON CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $26,200 · Community ImprovementTHE OCRACOKE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementMOUNT VERNON ROSENWALD SCHOOL BUILDING: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGREENSBORO WOMANS CLUB INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE FARMINGTON COMMUNITY ASSOC: $27,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,882,900Arts & Culture$621,800Education$186,400Human Services$75,500Environment$55,000Community Improvement$53,700Recreation & Sports$27,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $227,700 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetLOST PROVINCE CENTER FOR THE CULTURAL ARTS: $51,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetPreservation Greensboro Inc: $51,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMAGNOLIA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $42,400 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $39,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC: $37,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetPERQUIMANS COUNTY RESTORATION ASSOCIATION INC: $33,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCARING SERVICES INC: $28,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FARMINGTON COMMUNITY ASSOC: $27,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetCLAYTON CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $26,200 over 2y, 22% of budgetSOUTHERN HIGHLAND HANDICRAFT GUILD: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBath High School Preservation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetNEW BERN PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetHIGH POINT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $24,500 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetKORNER'S FOLLY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPATTERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSTECOAH VALLEY ARTS CRAFTS & EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC: $22,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSt Josephs Historic Foundation: $21,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMURFREESBORO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSTARWORKS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKINSTON ARTS COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHISTORIC CARSON HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBeaufort Historical Association Inc: $19,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYANCEY HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCULTIVATOR INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMILTON RENAISSANCE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHistoric Wilmington Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHEMLOCK RETREATS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOOREFIELDS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BERN CIVIC THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetThalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OCRACOKE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWILKES HERITAGE MUSEUM INC: $12,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAPPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetMUSEUM OF ASHE COUNTY HISTORY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHISTORIC BETHABARA PARK INC: $12,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHistoric Jamestown Society Inc: $12,400 over 1y, 33% of budgetELSEWHERE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST RENEWAL FOUNDATION OF HIGH POINT INC: $12,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCharlotte Museum of History: $11,650 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRANDOLPH HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetStudio 1: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Cannon Foundation…North Carolina Humani…North Carolina Commun…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Community Foundat…National Trust for Hi…Duke Energy FoundationTannenbaum-Sternberge…Foundation for the Ca…Hillsdale FundCommunity Foundation …Blue Ridge National H…
The Cannon Foundation IncNC58.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 178 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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