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· Private foundation
THE COFFEY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$392k
Granted FY2024
65
Grants
1
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE COFFEY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
edwardisaacdochertyhugheslaurenduketaylor
2021
sydneytayloreliselaurenbrody michaelmichael milleralexis
2022
lowegracesavannahthomasrileyjameskatherine
2023
univunicfaithunc charlottegracegardner-webbingram
2024
individual madelynthomasgardner-webbwallace
2025
thomasgardner-webb
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 65 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $286k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $107k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$25,000
- CALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW$15,000
- CALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$13,500
- CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL$13,000
- CALDWELL HOUSE INC$10,000
- SOUTH CALDWELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$10,000
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$10,000
- SHELTER HOME OF CALDWELL COUNTY$10,000
- LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN$8,500
- NC STATE UNIVERSITY - THOMAS HOWARD$8,000
- LENOIR RHYNE UNIVERSITY - ANDREA DENISE GODFREY$8,000
- NC STATE UNIVERSITY - LANEY CARPENTER$8,000
- APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY - MARY CATHERINE FORD$8,000
- APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY - PAUL JACOB NORWOOD$8,000
- GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY - AYDEN BOLLINGER$8,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 71 repeat orgs$343k to everyone else
71 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
71
71
Total granted
$1.6M
$235k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+40%
+151%
Still filing today
17%
1%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- CCCALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW5× · 2020–2024 · $107k · revenue +331%
- CCCALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +40%
- SCSOUTH CALDWELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- UWUNC WILMINGTON - MARY CATHERINE FORDone grant, 2022 · $8k
- ASAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY - SAMUEL ADAM MILLERone grant, 2020 · $8k
- UWUNC WILMINGTON - DANIEL EDWARD HARTone grant, 2020 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc
To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community .
Health
2
The Caldwell Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Caldwell 2020 Inc
Local leadership committed to building strategies for growth for caldwell county
Community Improvement
4
Caldwell County Hospital Inc
Caldwell medical center is an organization that provides healthcare services for caldwell and surrounding counties to raise and maintain the standards of community health through education, prevention, and treatment of illness.
Health
5
Caldwell County Chamber of Commerce
The mission of the caldwell chamber of commerce is to encourage economic prosperity by promoting the business interests of caldwell county and enhancing the quality of life in the community.
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6
Caldwell Council On Aging Inc
Services to the elderly
Human Services
7
Caldwell Family Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Caldwell County Dialysis Foundation
Health
9
Caldwell Opportunities
To provide developmental and vocational services to adults with disabilities in order to maximize independence and employment.
Human Services
10
Caldwell Hospice and Palliative
Provide end of life care through the hospice philosophy
Human Services
11
Caldwell Area Hospital & Health Foundation
To receive donations, bequeaths and memorials to provide funding seeking to improve the health and welfare of the communities in and surrounding Caldwell and to provide an independent source of funding and support for health related…
Health
12
West Caldwell Health Council Inc
West caldwell health council operates rural health clinics providing health care services to patients who are often unable to obtain this care otherwise.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caldwell Memorial Hospital and the most unlike its peers is The Lenoir Soup Kitchen Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,545,438Human Services$221,390Housing & Shelter$63,770Food & Nutrition$49,550Health$46,280Arts & Culture$26,457Youth Development$10,000Education$6,000
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 CALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CALDWELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOME OF CALDWELL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JAMES C HARPER SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
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.
Broyhill Family Foundation IncNC33.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Bernhardt Furniture Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Stevens Family Foundation Inc · Hogan Family Foundation Inc · The Wilson Family Foundation · George Foundation Inc · The Jonas Foundation · Caldwell County United Fund Inc · Bollinger Foundation Inc · Whitener Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank
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 organisation THE COFFEY FOUNDATION INC 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CALDWELL HERITAGE MUSEUM.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 550912590 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CALDWELL HERITAGE MUSEUM, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Coffey Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Coffey Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines