· Public charity
Ministering Circle of Wilmington NC
The Ministering Circle is committed to supporting projects and programs which promote the health and wellness of those in Wilmington and the surrounding community.
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.
The 8 grants below total $93,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $128,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,500 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Harrelson Center & Help Hub | $35,250 |
| Family Promise of the LCF | $10,000 |
| Childrens Cancer Partners | $10,000 |
| Eden Village | $10,000 |
| Carousel Center | $8,000 |
| Bread for Life Senior Pantry | $8,000 |
| Cape Fear CC Fdn | $6,000 |
| UNCW | $6,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +989%
- JAJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +153%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON9× · 2017–2025 · $234k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- PHPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NEW HANOVER COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ASA Safe Place Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +116%
- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Incone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +7%
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.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Cape fear clinic provides compassionate and affordable patient-centered healthcare to low income individuals and families in the cape fear region, regardless of their ability to pay.
Hospice care for terminally ill patients.
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,…
To promote quality nutrition and reduce food insecurities through financial and educational support in Family childcare homes and Day Care centers, while maintaining Child and Adult Care Food Program integrity.
Seeking to put gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
To surround at risk students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
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…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Literacy Council and the most unlike its peers is Public Health Foundation of New Hanover County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT WILMINGTON ↗
- Who funds The Carousel Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY DENTAL CLINIC CORP ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear Guardian ad Litem Association ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds A Safe Place Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR LIFE SENIOR PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington 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: New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rudisill Family Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North
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 Ministering Circle of Wilmington NC 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Ministering Circle of Wilmington NC?
Find your warmest path to Ministering Circle of Wilmington NC through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.