· Private foundation
The Coffey Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k60 grants · $344k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOUNDATION OF CCC&TI INC | $25,000 |
| CALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| CALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN | $8,500 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY - MARY CATHERINE FORD | $8,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL - HAYLEY VICTORIA HARTLEY | $8,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY - PAUL JACOB NORWOOD | $8,000 |
| LENOIR RHYNE UNIVERSITY - ANDREA DENISE GODFREY | $8,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY - CALEB WEINER | $8,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL - ISABELLA HAWKINS | $8,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL - MAX HUSS MACCHIA | $8,000 |
| UNC ASHEVILLE - CHANDLER GRAY DIXON | $8,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL - RACHEL KRIPNER | $8,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY - DALTON HENDERSON | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
86 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 20 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +172%
- CCCaldwell County Yokefellow Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $122k · revenue +5%
- CCCALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- AMAPPALACHIAN - MARY CATHERINE FORDone grant, 2023 · $8k
- UCUNC CHAPEL HILL - MADELYN ELIZABETH SMITHone grant, 2020 · $8k
- UWUNC WILMINGTON - MARY CATHERINE FORDone grant, 2022 · $8k
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.
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.
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.
Strong local leadership committed to developing and building public/private partnerships and strategies to dramatically increase caldwell county's capacity to grow, produce sustainable positive change and improve caldwell county's ability…
Services to the elderly
Caldwell medical center's mission is to provide quality, compassionate healthcare.
The caldwell nutrition center mission statement is to provide services to improve the qualitiy of life of older adults through nutrition services, social interaction and health services.
To promote employment and independence of persons with disabilities through customer, business, community partnerships and leadership.
The organization is a local volunteer fire department providing fire and rescue services to residents in their district.
To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 186 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Caldwell County Yokefellow Inc ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds South Caldwell Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOME OF THE FOOTHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES C HARPER SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL HERITAGE MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL SENIOR CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: Bernhardt Furniture Foundation · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Hogan Family Foundation Inc · Stevens 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 of Northwest Nc Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Coffey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Coffey Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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