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· 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.
$129k
Granted FY2025
8
Grants
2
Communities
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Education$549kCommunity Improvement$240kHealth$121kHousing & Shelter$58kFood & Nutrition$24kCrime & Legal$23kReligion$20kYouth Development$10kHuman Services$8kOther$56k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
relationships
2024
housing
2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Harrelson Center & Help Hub$35,250
- Eden Village$10,000
- Family Promise of the LCF$10,000
- Childrens Cancer Partners$10,000
- Carousel Center$8,000
- Bread for Life Senior Pantry$8,000
- Cape Fear CC Fdn$6,000
- UNCW$6,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else
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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
3
Total granted
$1.1M
$26k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+147%
+903%
Still filing today
91%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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 CC Fdn9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +468%
- TJThe Jo Ann Harrelson Center9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +147%
- UUNCW9× · 2017–2025 · $234k · revenue +521%
Funded once
- NHNew Hanover Health Dptone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ASA Safe Placegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +903%
- GSGood Shepherdone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +21%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina
Educate, advocate, support and promote partnerships that lead to positive outcomes for childre, youth and resource families of NC.
Human Services
2
Cape Fear Tutoring Inc
Non-profit corporation providing tutoring services to children and adults, and sponsoring daycare homes and centers in the USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program.
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3
Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated
Hospice care for terminally ill patients.
Human Services
4
Hope Harbor Home Inc
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
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5
Cape Fear Academy
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
Education
6
Cape Fear Community Land Trust Inc
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…
Housing & Shelter
7
United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc
47,636 lives impacted by investing $3,202,315 in 71 local programs. Our vision is a united community that is healthy, safe and prosperous for everyone. United Way of the Cape Fear Area (UWCFA) serves Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover and…
Philanthropy
8
Carolina University
A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
Education
9
Carteret County Partnership for Children
Carteret County Partnership for Children's mission is to inspire, support and advocate for young children and their families in the areas of health, education and child care.
Youth Development
10
Cape Fear Clinic Inc
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.
Philanthropy
11
Ywca of the Lower Cape Fear Inc
To eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Human Services
12
North Carolina Guardian ad Litem Advocate Fund
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Literacy Council and the most unlike its peers is Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
14/14
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$548,740Community Improvement$240,250Health$120,600Housing & Shelter$57,500Other$94,080Food & Nutrition$23,500Crime & Legal$23,250
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 CC Fdn ↗
- Who funds The Jo Ann Harrelson Center ↗
- Who funds UNCW ↗
- Who funds Carousel Center ↗
- Who funds St Marys Health Ctr ↗
- Who funds Eden Village ↗
- Who funds Nourish NC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of the LCF ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear Literacy Council ↗
- Who funds Guardian Ad Litem ↗
- Who funds Childrens Cancer Partners ↗
- Who funds A Safe Place ↗
- Who funds Bread for Life Senior Pantry ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd ↗
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.
The Landfall Foundation IncNC24.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Landfall Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Ge Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Jeffrey Schrager & Anne York Family · The Eshelman Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNCW.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 566050338 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on UNCW, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Ministering Circle of Wilmington NC?
Find your warmest path to Ministering Circle of Wilmington NC through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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