· Public charity
The Charles W & Elizabeth H Coker Foundation
See schedule o.the foundation is a supporting organization of the hartsville chamber of commerce to benefit the hartsville, south carolina area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $597,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $609,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COKER UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| HARTSVILLE INTERFAITH MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC | $10,000 |
| RUBICON THROUGH LEADERSHIP HARTSVILLE | $10,000 |
| BLACK CREEK ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| MCLEOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CYPRESS ADVENTURES | $10,000 |
| HARTSVILLE SOUP KITCHEN | $8,000 |
| TREES FOR TOMORROW | $7,000 |
| HARTSVILLE COMMUNITY | $7,000 |
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, $381k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +23%
- HIHartsville Interfaith Ministries8× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +101% · 29% of their budget
- EIEdventure Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $160k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- THTrent Hill Center for Children & Familiesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +962%
- HCHARTSVILLE CHRISTMAS-IN-APRIL INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
- DCDarlington County Humane Society Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
to find forever homes for unwanted animals
Empowering people in sumter county sc to live free from substance abuse through a continuum of high quality services.
To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.
To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc
To prevent domestic animal overpopulation through spaying and neutering programs, to place animals into proper homes, to educate the public on responsible pet ownership, and assist at the animal shelter.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Association of South Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mcleod Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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.
- Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hartsville Interfaith Ministries ↗
- Who funds Edventure Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF DARLINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Black Creek Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Hartsville Museum Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Cypress Adventures Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HARTSVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trent Hill Center for Children & Families ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 552 PEE DEE AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Darlington County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds PEE DEE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds RUBICON INC ↗
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: The Byerly Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Joan Sasser Coker and Charles Westfield Coker Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Eastern Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Assurant Foundation · South Carolina Student Loan Corp · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 The Charles W & Elizabeth H Coker 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.
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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