· Private foundation
Cape Fear Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $470k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE FEAR CLINIC INC | $250,000 |
| NEW HANOVER COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC | $200,000 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $150,000 |
| CAPE FEAR CLINIC INC | $125,000 |
| NEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $110,000 |
| NEW HOPE CLINIC INC | $100,000 |
| NEW HOPE CLINIC INC | $100,000 |
| LOWER CAPE FEAR HOSPICE & LIFECARECENTER | $100,000 |
| DUPLIN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $95,000 |
| CAPE FEAR HEALTHNET | $90,000 |
| NEW HANOVER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $75,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES OF WILMINGTON | $75,000 |
| BRUNSWICK PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING INC | $75,000 |
| DUPLIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCAPE FEAR CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +182% · 40% of their budget
- NHNEW HOPE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +49% · 27% of their budget
- TCThe Carousel Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $950k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Servone grant, 2023 · $125k
- BRBLACK RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue +5%
- DGDUPLIN GENERAL HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2024 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear, Inc (CCLCF) serves as a health and social care hub, working in partnership with community organizations to improve health outcomes for Medicare, Medicaid, uninsured and privately insured individuals…
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
MemoryCares mission is three-fold: to provide specialized medical care to older adults with cognitive impairment; to support caregivers with education, counseling, and improved access to services; and to provide community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Group Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Recuperative Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 CAPE FEAR CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR HEALTHNET INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Carousel Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds Coastal Horizons Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Pender Alliance for Total Health ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF PENDER INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY DENTAL CLINIC CORP ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds Child Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON CARENET COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SENIOR RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington ↗
- Who funds LINC INC ↗
- Who funds Pender Adult Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Partnership for Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLIND- ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds NEW HANOVER COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Landfall Foundation Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Novant Health Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation
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 organization Cape Fear Memorial Foundation 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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