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Cumberland Community Foundation Inc
Our mission is giving together to enhance the quality and spirit of community life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 125 grants below total $8,500,343 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,059,093 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,558,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $1,647,423 |
| CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC | $472,471 |
| CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN | $392,952 |
| GREEN BERET FOUNDATION | $269,000 |
| BREEZEWOOD CHURCH | $250,000 |
| CAPE FEAR VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $232,566 |
| FAYETTEVILLE URBAN MINISTRY INC | $218,873 |
| TRAVELERS CHURCH | $200,000 |
| FAYETTEVILLE AREA OPERATION INASMUCH | $191,872 |
| FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $180,547 |
| CURAMERICAS GLOBAL INC | $180,000 |
| CUMBERLAND COUNTY COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS | $153,219 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $145,700 |
| FAYETTEVILLE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY | $140,871 |
| THE CARE CLINIC INC | $138,722 |
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 (FY21–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
132 repeat relationships — 97 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 21 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- MUMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +15%
- FTFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +5% · 84% of their budget
- CFCAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SFServiceSource Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -31% · 26% of their budget
CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INCone grant, 2022 · $375k · revenue -7% · 62% of their budget- FTFayetteville Technical Community Collegeone grant, 2021 · $250k
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 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…
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
Our mission is giving together to enhance the quality and spirit of community life. our vision is a vibrant, inclusive community that provides sustainable opportunities for generations. we believe in : 1) trustworthy, accountable…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
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 solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ashe County Recovery and Restoration. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
148 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. 148 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ServiceSource Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE AREA OPERATION INASMUCH ↗
- Who funds THE CARE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BLESSINGS OF FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC FAYETTEVILLE AREA ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AIRBORNE AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE THROUGH HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL FORCES SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds NEWS FOUNDATION OF GREATER FAYETTEVILLE ↗
- Who funds NC UNITED METHODIST CAMP & RETREAT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COUNTY COORDINATING COUNCIL ON OLDER ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Vision Resource Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETTER HEALTH OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILLERS CREW 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: Youth Growth Stock Trust · Riddle Family Foundation · Sharlene R Williams Family Foundation · Florence Rogers Charitable Trust · Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc · Carolyn Riddle Armstrong Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Jp Riddle Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008
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 Cumberland Community Foundation Inc 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.
- Rad-Aid International Inc — 17% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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