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Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

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
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $155k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$602k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COKER UNIVERSITY$58,892
HARTSVILLE SALVATION ARMY$12,830
PEE DEE COALITION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE$12,500
WING HAVEN FOUNDATION INC$10,000
450 BULL FOUNDATION$10,000
MILES OF SMILES$7,727
MERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS$7,500
WHAT'S NEXT MINISTRIES$7,500
PHILIPS ACADEMY$7,500
HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES$7,500
HARTSVILLE SOUP KITCHEN$7,500
CAROLINA'S KIDS$7,500
JASMINE ROAD$5,350
SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATH FOUNDATION INC$5,237
SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION$5,151
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Healing Hands of Joy: $3k → 20%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $5k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $5k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $3k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $3k → 10%Charlotte Family Housing: $3k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $2k → 10%Hartsville Interfaith Ministries: $17k → 21%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $2k → 10%Healing Hands Of Joy: $2k → 10%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $2k → 10%Hartsville Interfaith Ministries: $13k → 21%HEALING HANDS OF JOY: $2k → 10%Hartsville Interfaith Ministries: $12k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $12k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $12k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $11k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $9k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $9k → 21%HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES: $8k → 21%TRENT HILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $3k → 21%TRENT HILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $3k → 21%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

NY
MA
OH
CT
UT
CO
NC
SC
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 65 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
22

Total granted

$2.5M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+65%

Still filing today

48%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • CU
    COKER UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +25%
  • BA
    BUTLER ACADEMY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $127k · revenue +528%
  • HI
    Hartsville Interfaith Ministries
    9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • BG
    BROOKENGREEN GARDENS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • CC
    CAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +201%
  • AJ
    Adam J Lewis Academy
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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3
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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4
The Bladen County Hospital Foundation

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.

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5
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
6
Carolina Pregnancy Center

We are a crisis pregnancy center offering assistance to all women with pregnancy related issues.

Health
7
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
8
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
9
South Carolina Episcopal Home at Still Hopes

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.

Health
10
Darlington County Habitat for Humanity Inc

To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc

Housing & Shelter
11
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services Inc

Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Savannah Speech & Hearing Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 88 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
32/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARTSVILLE SALVATION ARMY: $161,120 · OtherHARTSVILLE SALVATION ARMYHartsville Soup Kitchen: $107,970 · OtherHartsville Soup KitchenPEE DEE COALITION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSE: $101,816 · OtherPEE DEE COALITION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL ABUSEMiles of Smiles: $87,518 · OtherMiles of SmilesFREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DARLINGTON COUNTY: $79,500 · OtherSouth Carolina Educational Television: $61,970 · Other+57 more: $1,023,776 · Other+57 moreCarolina's Kids: $134,273 · EducationCarolina's KidsCOKER UNIVERSITY: $131,207 · EducationCOKER UNIVERSITYBUTLER ACADEMY: $126,747 · EducationBUTLER ACADEMYTHE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $68,049 · EducationTHE CARE HOUSE OF THE PE…ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $42,500 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INCCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $23,000 · EducationSAVANNAH SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC: $22,000 · Education+2 more: $25,237 · EducationHartsville Interfaith Ministries: $101,500 · Human ServicesCharlotte Family Housing: $19,000 · Human ServicesHealing Hands of Joy: $9,000 · Human ServicesCypress Adventures Inc: $8,500 · Human ServicesTrent Hill Center for Children & Families: $6,000 · Human ServicesBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $82,586 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $45,000 · Arts & CultureEdventure Inc: $22,000 · Arts & CultureTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS: $28,000 · HealthCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $18,499 · HealthIMPACT MELANOMA INC: $5,000 · HealthBRIGID'S PATH INC: $2,000 · HealthWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary: $38,000 · AnimalsDarlington County Humane Society Inc: $9,500 · Animals
Other$1,623,670Education$573,013Human Services$144,000Environment$85,086Arts & Culture$77,000Health$53,499Animals$47,500

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 budgetCarolina's Kids: $134,273 over 9y, 39% of budgetCOKER UNIVERSITY: $131,207 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUTLER ACADEMY: $126,747 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHartsville Interfaith Ministries: $101,500 over 9y, 17% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $82,586 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DARLINGTON COUNTY: $79,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC: $68,049 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetWOFFORD COLLEGE: $50,033 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $45,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetJASMINE ROAD INC: $43,100 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $42,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc: $40,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC: $38,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary: $38,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBlack Creek Arts Council Inc: $34,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS: $28,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: $23,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEdventure Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAVANNAH SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMerrie-Woode Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $19,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCAREFIRST CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $18,499 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC: $15,237 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVIRTUE INC: $13,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDAYBREAK INC: $12,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDarlington County Humane Society Inc: $9,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHealing Hands of Joy: $9,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCypress Adventures Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTrent Hill Center for Children & Families: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC BLUFFTON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetIMPACT MELANOMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGID'S PATH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Carolina's Kids ↗
  • Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BUTLER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Hartsville Interfaith Ministries ↗
  • Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DARLINGTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE CARE HOUSE OF THE PEE DEE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds JASMINE ROAD INC ↗
  • Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PEE DEE AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds Black Creek Arts Council Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERCY MEDICAL FREE CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS ↗
  • Who funds Edventure Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAVANNAH SPEECH & HEARING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc ↗

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 Comm…The Byerly FoundationDuke Energy FoundationThe Charles W & Eliza…Foundation for the Ca…Dominion Energy Chari…Eastern Carolina Comm…First Citizens Founda…The Leon Levine Found…Assurant FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Dabo's All in Team Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Impact Melanoma Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 88 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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