· Private foundation
Champion McDowell Davis Charitable Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
- $250k+1 grant · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $850,000 |
| Lower Cape Fear Life Care | $77,500 |
| Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilm In | $76,250 |
| Harrelson Center Help Hub | $30,000 |
| Eden Village of Wilmington | $20,000 |
| StepUp Wilmington | $20,000 |
| Therapeutic Musicians of Coastal | $20,000 |
| Cameron Art Museum | $11,500 |
| St James Parish | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $717k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +27%
- YOYWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +120%
- PEPhoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- LPLakeside Partners of Wilmington Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +53%
- EIELDERHAUS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +102%
- PEPhoenix Employment Ministries of Wione grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.
Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.
Public K-8 charter school located in New Hanover County, providing tuition-free education to the public and open to all residents of North Carolina.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Cape Fear Community Land Trust (CFCLT) exists to sustain vibrant, diverse communities by creating housing opportunities for working families. Our vision is a region filled with vibrant, holistic, and economically diverse communities with…
To serve the entire community by acting as a catalyst for the revitalization of downtown Elizabeth City and the waterfront while preserving its historical and architectural character.
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
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…
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,…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 24 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 Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Lakeside Partners of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds ELDERHAUS INC ↗
- Who funds Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
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: New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Jeffrey Schrager & Anne York Family Foundation · Loweth-Alvord Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Champion McDowell Davis Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Champion McDowell Davis Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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