· Private foundation
Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of JOAN SASSER COKER AND CHARLES WESTFIELD COKER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COKER UNIVERSITY | $58,892 |
| HARTSVILLE SALVATION ARMY | $12,830 |
| PEE DEE COALITION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE | $12,500 |
| 450 BULL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WING HAVEN FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| MILES OF SMILES | $7,727 |
| PHILIPS ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| WHAT'S NEXT MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| CAROLINA'S KIDS | $7,500 |
| MERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS | $7,500 |
| HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| HARTSVILLE SOUP KITCHEN | $7,500 |
| JASMINE ROAD | $5,350 |
| SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATH FOUNDATION INC | $5,237 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION | $5,151 |
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, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
65 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CUCOKER UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +25%
- BABUTLER ACADEMY5× · 2019–2023 · $127k · revenue +528%
- HIHartsville Interfaith Ministries9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- BGBROOKENGREEN GARDENSone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CCCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +201%
- AJAdam J Lewis Academyone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
To provide a faith based community where life will be rich and full as god intends it to be, holding to our values, serving one another with dedication and promoting health and wellness for all.
To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Savannah Speech & Hearing Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healing Hands of Joy. 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 88 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.
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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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Byerly Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Charles W & Elizabeth H Coker Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First · The Leon Levine Foundation · Assurant Foundation · United Way of Greater Hartsville · Dabo's All in Team Foundation
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 Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation 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.
- Impact Melanoma Inc — 3% of income from government
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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