Georgia · Nonprofit
College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc
College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,649,047 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,384,250). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $28M
What College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc does
Mission
To develop resources to support the College in providing quality education. The Foundation also serves as an advocate within the Coastal Georgia community to further the goals of the College.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Academic Programming: Quality faculty are the cornerstone of higher education. The College's ability to recruit and retain outstanding academic talent ensures its status in and contributions to higher education. With shrinking public funds and increasing performance demands, the Foundation secures funding to support faculty learning, research, scholarship, and innovation. Currently there are forty-five diverse funds maintained for these purposes. These funds support all educational programs at the College and most notably in 2024, Nursing Curriculum, Nursing Clinical Assistants, Radiology X-Ray Program, The Lucas Center for Entrprenuership, and Cyber-Security. The Foundation seeks to establish new sources of faculty support annually and works to reach a support range of 20 to 30 percent of the annual budget.
$1,117,946 spentof which $1,117,946 as grants46% of program spendingAcademic Scholarship: Merit scholarships and targeted academic incentives are important tools in recruitment and retention of top notch students. The Foundation is committeed to continuing awards of full or partial scholarhips at meaningful funding levels to five percent of more of total enrollment. To attract and retain outstanding students, the Foundation will continue to consider innovative scholarship and support programs such as the Moore Scholars, the Brenda and Mac Nease Foundation Scholarships, and the Hites/Dinos Scholarships. The majority of the Foundation's sixty eight endowment funds support scholarships. In the 2023-2024 Academic year the Foundation made 977 scholarship awards to approximately 862 students.
$700,833 spentof which $700,833 as grants29% of program spendingCampus Programming/Student Life including Athletics and General Operations: The college experience is heightened through quality extra-and co-curricular activities. The Foundation sustains arts and cultural experieinces, lecture series, social gatherings, and career development opportunities that serve to expand the horizons of students, faculty and staff, and to provide enrichment for the community at large. Campus Programming/Student Life funds include: the Coastal Georgia Minority Outreach Program, Let's Talk Coastal, the Theatre fund, Veteran Funds, a Campus Pantry, and a Student Publications fund (Seaswell's). Athletic funds include support for the Athletic Department, Athletic scholarships, and support for the seven inter-scholastic college sports teams. (continued at Schedule O)While cultivating significant named giving, the Foundation's goal is at least 20 percent of the annual budget for campus programming/student life and athletic programming. The Foundation also supports general operations expenses which should be under 10 percent of the annual budget.
$514,174 spentof which $514,174 as grants21% of program spendingOther Program Services: Housing/Capital Expansion: Student housing and additional instructional facilities remain critical for the College's expansion and growth. The Foundation looks to support new and improved facilities and the future phases of student housing. Currently, the Foundation owns and operates Coastal Place Apartments, which is an 132 student off-campus housing unit in conjuction with the College's residential housing program. The Foundation also maintains a kitchen lab in downtown Brunswick to expand instruction for the College's Culinary Arts program and provide more cooperative education experiences for it's students. There are various naming opportunities through capital donations for new and existing campus buildings and infastructure (e.g., walkways, water features, laboratories, student meeting areas) that can be targeted for future solicitations.
$79,120 spentof which $79,120 as grants$40,000 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,412,073.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $19M to $23M (+18%).
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.
76% of College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Hillary Stringfellow
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $98k → $108k.
12 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $679k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 funders by total. 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
College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 40% · 2019 53% · 2020 82% · 2021 46% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc'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
76% of College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $884k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Coastal Georgia Real Estate Foundation LLC · disregarded
- College of Coastal Georgia Foundation 1407 Union St LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc?
- College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,649,047 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,384,250). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,649,047 in grants to College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,384,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like College Of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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