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COASTAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

EIN 57-0354696 MYRTLE BEACH, SC

Revenue 2024
$3,732,971
Expenses 2024
$3,322,260

Program services were 88.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
9007 HIGHWAY 544 STE A

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY THROUGH CHARITABLE DONATIONS RECEIVED PRIMARILY FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SUPPORT COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY THROUGH SCHOLARSHIPS AND PROGRAMS

  • UNIVERSITY SUPPORT - THE FOUNDATION PROVIDES SALARY ENRICHMENT AND BENEFITS TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN TOP ADMINISTRATION.

    Expenses $845,190 · Grants $372,291

  • PROGRAM SUPPORT - THE FOUNDATION FUNDS CHAIRS AND PROFESSORSHIPS FOR THE VARIOUS COLLEGES AND PROVIDES FUNDING FOR MANY OF THE RENOWNED PROGRAMS THAT HAVE LED COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY TO BE RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF "AMERICA'S 100 BEST COLLEGE BUYS" FOR ELEVEN CONSECUTIVE YEARS. ALSO, COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY IS RANKED SIXTH IN THE BEST VALUE CATEGORY FOR SOUTHERN REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES IN THE 2021 EDITION OF THE U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT "BEST COLLEGE" ANNUAL RANKINGS.

    Expenses $1,104,167 · Grants $1,084,550

  • SCHOLARSHIPS - THE FOUNDATION IS ABLE TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE TO STUDENTS MEETING VARYING CRITERIA THROUGH BOTH ENDOWMENTS AND ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS.

    Expenses $998,869 · Grants $998,869

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Tony K Cox

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Michael F Hagg

    PAST CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Christopher St John

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • E Lawton Benton

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Franklin C Blanton

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Merrill T Boyce

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • T Preston Brown

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • O Bartlett Buie

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • David D Douglas

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • W Jennings Duncan

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Edgar L Dyer III

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Dennis L Wade

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • J Stewart Haskin Jr

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Jody C Hyden

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Christopher S Huggins

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • William O Marsh

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • James B Moore Jr

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Michael D Pruitt

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Joseph F Singleton

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Deborah Vrooman

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • E Craig Wall III

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Melody Je Breeden

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • John M Draughn

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Christy S Everett-Holder

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3
  • Brian J Argo

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.3

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,732,971
    Expenses
    $3,322,260
    Contributions
    $2,094,633
    Grants paid
    $2,455,710
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,952,153
    Expenses
    $7,551,319
    Contributions
    $2,945,409
    Grants paid
    $6,810,065
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,236,617
    Expenses
    $3,320,748
    Contributions
    $4,528,257
    Grants paid
    $2,523,687

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,277,731
    Expenses
    $6,753,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,712,736
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,867,755
    Expenses
    $2,162,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $74,157,228
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,163,706
    Expenses
    $2,671,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $60,035,349
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,393,651
    Expenses
    $2,703,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,823,016
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,520,540
    Expenses
    $4,158,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,509,233
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,615,843
    Expenses
    $2,375,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,386,218
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,254,733
    Expenses
    $2,720,161
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,234,056
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,140,842
    Expenses
    $3,067,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,530,740
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,535,521
    Expenses
    $3,724,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,389,627
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $8,273,947
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,219,484

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

    $6,810,065

    2023 COASTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION WAS CHARTERED TO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY WITH VARIOUS DONATIONS.

  • COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

    $2,523,687

    2022 COASTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION WAS CHARTERED TO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY WITH VARIOUS DONATIONS.

  • COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY

    $2,455,710

    2024 COASTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION WAS CHARTERED TO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSITY WITH VARIOUS DONATIONS.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.