· Private foundation
Isabel James Lehto Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $378k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $108,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST INC | $60,000 |
| BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC | $60,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES OF WILMINGTON INC | $50,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $50,000 |
| LOWER CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF NC | $35,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF EAST CAROLINA | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF EASTERN NC | $25,000 |
| MINISTERING CIRCLE OF WILMINGTON NC | $25,000 |
| HOPE HARBOR HOME INC | $20,000 |
| HEIDIS HOPE FOR HOMELESS ANIMALS INC | $15,000 |
| PENDER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +87%
- SMSAINT MARYS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +55%
- BBBRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC8× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Southeastern NCone grant, 2024 · $60k
- LCLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCaregraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +27%
- LPLakeside Partners of Wilmington Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +209%
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.
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
The organization provides elderly or disabled persons with housing facilities and services specially designed to meet their physical, social, and psychological needs, and to promote their health, security, happiness, and usefulness in…
Serenity House is a community organization that bridges the gap for hospice families by providing a three bed group home setting at no charge for short term end of life care by trained volunteers and nurses.
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,…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Pittsboro Christian Village is a caring and compassionate continuing care retirement community for the Lord's people during their senior years. We provide our resident's spiritual and physical well-being, guided by biblical principles to…
The Associations mission is to preserve and present the history of the Chicamacomico Life-Saving/Coast Guard Station and the history of the Life-Saving Service on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Home for women and children who suffer from domestic violence.
The mission of Brunswick County Partnership for Housing is to provide services to individuals and families in Brunswick County who are homeless and advocate for the development of affordable housing.
Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 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 Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds Ministering Circle of Wilmington NC ↗
- Who funds The National Society of the Colonial Dames in the State of North Carolina ↗
- Who funds THE OAKDALE CEMETERY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Hope Harbor Home Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PENDER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds Lakeside Partners of Wilmington Inc ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Isabel James Lehto Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Isabel James Lehto Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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