Does Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable 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 Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, The Byerly Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

South Carolina · 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.

$259k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 38
Grants FY2025: 39
Organizations funded FY2024: 13%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $58,892
Organizations funded a year: 39 to 46; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $602k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	38	$259k	3%
FY2024	39	$263k	13%
FY2023	44	$313k	18%
FY2022	44	$307k	7%
FY2021	46	$274k	17%
FY2020	42	$293k	10%
FY2019	40	$297k	23%
FY2018	39	$295k	28%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$604kArts & Culture$454kHuman Services$357kHealth$340kFood & Nutrition$296kCrime & Legal$181kEnvironment$78kYouth Development$70kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Carolina's Kids	$134,273	9	39%
Coker University	$131,207	5	0%
Butler Academy	$126,747	5	3%
Hartsville Interfaith Ministries	$101,500	9	17%
Brookgreen Gardens	$82,586	4	0%
Free Medical Clinic of Darlington County	$79,500	6	4%
The Care House of the Pee Dee Inc	$68,049	8	1%
Wofford College	$50,033	3	0%
Greenville Arts Festival	$45,000	9	1%
Jasmine Road Inc	$43,100	8	1%

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All grantees of Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Carolina's Kids	$134,273	9	39%
Coker University	$131,207	5	0%
Butler Academy	$126,747	5	3%
Hartsville Interfaith Ministries	$101,500	9	17%
Brookgreen Gardens	$82,586	4	0%
Free Medical Clinic of Darlington County	$79,500	6	4%
The Care House of the Pee Dee Inc	$68,049	8	1%
Wofford College	$50,033	3	0%
Greenville Arts Festival	$45,000	9	1%
Jasmine Road Inc	$43,100	8	1%
Adam J Lewis Academy Inc	$42,500	8	0%
The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc	$40,500	7	1%
Boys and Girls Club of the Pee Dee Area Inc	$38,000	9	0%
Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary	$38,000	8	1%
Church of the Cross	$35,500	5	n/a
Neighborhood Cancer Connection	$35,000	7	1%
Black Creek Arts Council Inc	$34,000	8	2%
Mercy Medical Free Clinics	$28,000	3	0%
Crayons to Classrooms	$23,000	8	0%
Edventure Inc	$22,000	3	0%
Savannah Speech & Hearing Center Inc	$22,000	3	1%
Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc	$20,000	3	0%
Charlotte Family Housing	$19,000	6	0%
Carefirst Carolina Foundation	$18,499	1	10%
South Carolina Governors School for Science & Mathematics Foundation Inc	$15,237	3	0%
Virtue Inc	$13,500	5	1%
Trees for Tomorrow	$12,500	7	n/a
Daybreak Inc	$12,500	2	1%
Homeless No More Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Greens Farms Academy Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Telfair Museum of Art Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Darlington County Humane Society Inc	$9,500	3	0%
Healing Hands of Joy	$9,000	5	1%
Cypress Adventures Inc	$8,500	3	1%
Trent Hill Center for Children & Families	$6,000	2	0%
Bluffton Self Help Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Historic Bluffton Foundation	$5,000	1	2%
Greenville Health Authority	$5,000	1	n/a
Impact Melanoma Inc	$5,000	1	0%
One Hundred Miles Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Brigid's Path Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Harvest Hope Food Bank	$1,500	1	0%
Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault	$500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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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.

Central Carolina Community FoundationSC43.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation

How much does Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation give?: Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $259,337 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carolina's Kids ($134k), Coker University ($131k), Butler Academy ($127k).
Does Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable 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 Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, The Byerly Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation based?: Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation is based in SC.