North Carolina · Nonprofit
Carolina Comfort Coalition
Carolina Comfort Coalition (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,906 to it, the largest being Cecile G Ebert Charitable Foundation ($92,237). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $137k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $128k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Carolina Comfort Coalition does
Mission
Serenity House is a community organization that bridges the gap for hospice families by providing a three bed group home setting at no charge for short term end of life care by trained volunteers and nurses.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
The Serenity House is a unique model of care developed in the Rochester, NY area at the time of the AIDS epidemic. Cheryl Pletcher RN, a hospice nurse, moved from Rochester NY to North Carolina. The fragile families in North Carolina did not have access to the comfort care home option. The hospice benefit was established on the premise that the program would be administered in the home setting where family members would be available to provide the 24 hour care needed. Over the past 30 years, families have been gradually stretched and stressed by the cultural changes - financial breakdown, divorce, fewer children nearby and aging population. Another vital option for care is needed in North Carolina and every state to work beside hospice organizations to provide a safety net for hospice patients without sufficient care giving to remain safely at home through the final days of life. Our care is short term, non-medical family care in a residential setting. We operate in the Mooresville NC area to serve local hospice organizations. Our Serenity House location is the only comfort care home in North Carolina. Our plans include assisting other groups in North Carolina and outside the…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $257k to $154k (−40%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $23.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Carolina Comfort Coalition’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Carolina Comfort Coalition leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 52% · 2019 73% · 2020 72% · 2021 93% · 2022 82% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of Carolina Comfort Coalition's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of Carolina Comfort Coalition's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Carolina Comfort Coalition
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Carolina Comfort Coalition: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Carolina Comfort Coalition?
- Carolina Comfort Coalition (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,906 to it, the largest being Cecile G Ebert Charitable Foundation ($92,237). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Carolina Comfort Coalition have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $127,906 in grants to Carolina Comfort Coalition, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Carolina Comfort Coalition?
- Cecile G Ebert Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $92,237 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Carolina Comfort Coalition find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing