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Coker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$72kYouth Development$67kEducation$42kArts & Culture$25kHealth$21kEnvironment$14kPublic Benefit$13kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$827k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAITHFUL HEARTS ANIMAL SHELTER$15,000
ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE$5,000
NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE$2,500
THE HORSE SHELTER$2,500
ESPANOLA HUMANE SOCIETY$1,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB$1,000
THE FOOD DEPOT$1,000
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$1,000
PANAMA CITY BEACH TURTLE WATCH$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $5k → 8%FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%THE FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $500 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
CO
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220k · 27 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
28

Total granted

$220k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+21%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentPublic BenefitHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AF
    ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • THE FOOD DEPOT
    4× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +84%
  • SF
    SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • LA
    LA AMISTAD FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +9%
  • TY
    The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)graduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +693%
  • SF
    SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -52%
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
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
5
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
6
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
11
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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12
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation. 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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAITHFUL HEARTS ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $27,000 · OtherFAITHFUL HEARTS ANIMAL SHELTER INCBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER: $21,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATERSLOPPY KISSES ANIMAL RESCUE: $17,000 · OtherSLOPPY KISSES ANIMAL RESCUEIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARTSMART SANTE FE GALLERY: $13,061 · OtherARTSMART SANTE FE GALLERYIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 · OtherYMCA OF TRIANGLE AREA: $10,000 · OtherAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WAS D: $10,000 · Other+25 more: $43,000 · Other+25 moreThe Potomac School: $7,000 · EducationThe Potomac …DESERT MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationDESERT MONTE…Washington and Lee University: $5,000 · EducationWashington a…LANDON SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationLANDON SCHOO…Darlington School Inc: $2,600 · EducationDarlington S…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILL…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationTHE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $7,500 · AnimalsALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE HORSE SHELTER: $4,000 · AnimalsSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $1,000 · AnimalsPanama City Beach Turtle Watch Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $2,010 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $1,000 · Public BenefitTHE FOOD DEPOT: $7,500 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $5,000 · Human ServicesSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $5,000 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $3,500 · EnvironmentREUNITY RESOURCES: $2,000 · EnvironmentSanta Fe Pickleball Club: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$188,061Education$29,600Animals$18,500Public Benefit$13,010Human Services$12,500Environment$10,500Recreation & Sports$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Potomac School: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLA AMISTAD FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANDON SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEM for Her Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HORSE SHELTER: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEXICO WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDarlington School Inc: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $2,010 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREUNITY RESOURCES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLa Casita Preschool: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Fallen Officer Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPanama City Beach Turtle Watch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHEN ANGELS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…The Christopher Reyno…The Frost FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…Eugene V and Clare E …Douglass Family Found…The Ark FoundationCarroll Petrie Founda…Thornburg FoundationPnm Tnmp FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…T Rowe Price Program …
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Frost Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Eugene V and Clare E Thaw Charitable Trust · Douglass Family Foundation · The Ark Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving 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 Coker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 59 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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