· Private foundation
Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k25 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GIVING TUESDAY | $73,000 |
| FTCC FOUNDATION | $4,100 |
| LOUISBURG COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| FAYETTEVILL ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| OPERATION IN AS MUCH | $2,000 |
| WELLS MCRAE CAIN MEMORIAL FUND | $2,000 |
| MEREDITH COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| ALMA EASOM ELEMENTARY PTO | $2,000 |
| OFF ROAD OUTREACH | $2,000 |
| CUMBERLAND COUNTY GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,075 |
| MILLERS CREW | $1,000 |
| STONEY POINT FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FAFAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +29%
- TATHE ARTS COUNCIL INC2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +24%
- CFCAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN3× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- SMSNYDER MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SFSANDHILLS FAMILY HERITAGE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -20%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To support, represent and advocate for north carolina independent higher education.
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
The mission of cumberland university is to provide a personalized, high-quality, value-based educational experience that equips learners to lead, serve, and excel in an ever-evolving world.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
The arts council connects our communities, embraces diversity, promotes individual creativity, advances economic development, and fosters lifelong learning through the arts.
To promote both small business and personal growth, productiveness and well being through loans, peer counseling, education, information, and other advocacy programs throughout cumberland county, north carolina.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 65 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 CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE FAMILY LIFE CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds LOUISBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Operation Inasmuch Inc ↗
- Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MILLERS CREW INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vision Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Off-Road Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS FAMILY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOME BUILDERS ASSOC OF FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Cumberland Community Foundation Inc · Riddle Family Foundation · Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation · Jp Riddle Charitable Foundation Inc · Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Florence Rogers Charitable Trust · Youth Growth Stock Trust · Robert E Bryan Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Jw & Db Wyatt Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Capital City Youth Services Inc: 20% of income from government
How this is measured
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