Tennessee · Private foundation
Coker Foundation
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.
- $253k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Coker Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Greater Chattanooga Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Coker Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $253k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Coker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $253k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $200k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $172k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $202k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $200k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga Christian School Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Antique Automobile Club of America | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Public School Bible Study Committee | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Museum of the Bible | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coker Museum | $100,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Open Eyes Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Helo Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Auburn Automotive Heritage Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fifty Plus Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chattanooga Christian School Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Antique Automobile Club of America | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Public School Bible Study Committee | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Museum of the Bible | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Coker Museum | $100,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Open Eyes Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Operation Helo Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Auburn Automotive Heritage Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fifty Plus Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Life Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Calvary Chapel of Chattanooga Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Life | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($260k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Coker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Hamico Inc · R Brad Martin Family Foundation · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Coker Foundation
- How much does Coker Foundation give?
- Coker Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $252,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Coker Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Arts & Culture (23%), Philanthropy (22%).
- Who are Coker Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Chattanooga Christian School Inc ($200k), Antique Automobile Club of America ($200k), Public School Bible Study Committee ($150k).
- Does Coker Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Coker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Coker Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Maclellan Foundation Inc, Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, Hamico Inc.
- Where is Coker Foundation based?
- Coker Foundation is based in TN.
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