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New Hanover Community Endowment Inc

To improve the health, education, safety, and economic opportunity of every person in our community.

$61M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Education$18MHousing & Shelter$16MHuman Services$10MHealth$4.6MPublic Benefit$4.3MPhilanthropy$3.2MYouth Development$3.2MCrime & Legal$3.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+33 grants · $57M
$382,447
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cape Fear Community College Foundation Incorporated$5,609,774
New Hanover County Schools$5,434,051
YMCA of Southeastern North Carolina$5,275,458
Shelter America Group$4,700,000
Cape Fear Collective$4,137,000
Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity$3,500,000
New HOPE CDC$2,660,000
University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv$2,525,000
New Hanover County - Administration$2,039,364
MedNorth Health Center$2,000,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina$1,653,200
WARM NC$1,600,000
New Hanover County District Attorney's Office$1,429,472
Communities in Schools of Cape Fear$1,396,381
A Safe Place$1,200,000
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $5.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Diaper Bank of North Carolina: $170k → 11%Youth Villages North Carolina: $75k → 12%Canines for Service Inc: $55k → 12%ACCESS of Wilmington: $50k → 12%Bread for Life Senior Pantry (BFL): $15k → 12%Community Counseling Center: $75k → 12%Extensiton Master Gardener Volunteer Association: $13k → 12%YWCA Lower Cape Fear: $1.1M → 12%YWCA Lower Cape Fear: $122k → 12%Communities in Schools of Cape Fear: $1.4M → 12%American Red Cross - Cape Fear Chapter: $979k → 12%Leading Into New Communities Inc (LINC): $581k → 12%Genesis Block Foundation: $200k → 12%American Red Cross: $171k → 12%Lower Cape Fear LifeCare: $148k → 12%Soaring as Eagles Outreach Ministry Inc: $75k → 12%Lower Cape Fear LifeCare: $50k → 12%Genesis Block Foundation: $26k → 12%SEEDS of Healing Inc: $24k → 12%Transitions Foundation NC Inc: $16k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of New Hanover Community Endowment Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

New Hanover Community Endowment Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$39M · 31 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
61

Total granted

$39M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+9%

Still filing today

90%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CF
    CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +563% · 37% of their budget
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +153% · 26% of their budget
  • CI
    COLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF RALEIGH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $531k
  • CO
    CITY OF WILMINGTON NC
    one grant, 2022 · $220k
  • BE
    BEACON EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -66%

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
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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2
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

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,…

Health
3
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
4
Cape Fear Tutoring Inc

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.

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5
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
6
Cape Fear Academy

To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC

Education
7
Brunswick County Habitat for Humanity Incorporated

To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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8
Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear I

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…

Health
9
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
10
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services
11
Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
12
North Carolina Aids Action Network

The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Group Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Masonboroorg. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%4%<5yr16%16%5–10yr23%24%10–20yr13%24%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr10%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%6%<5yr16%2%5–10yr23%13%10–20yr13%26%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr10%22%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/118
the rest of the field
17%
187/1,114

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.

05the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 120 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.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
67/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New Hanover County Schools — $5,434,051 · OtherNew Hanover County SchoolsUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv — $3,157,396 · OtherUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington -…NEW HANOVER COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $2,162,500 · OtherNEW HANOVER COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERNew Hanover County - Administration — $2,039,364 · OtherNew Hanover County - AdministrationBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc — $1,786,850 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Car…New Hanover County District Attorney's Office — $1,429,472 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $1,000,000 · OtherA Safe Place Inc — $1,348,000 · Other+57 more — $9,217,752 · Other+57 moreSHELTER AMERICA GROUP — $4,700,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER AMERICA GROUPCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $3,700,000 · Housing & ShelterCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR H…New Helping Ordinary People Excel Community Development Corporation — $2,660,000 · Housing & ShelterNew Helping Ordinary Pe…Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc — $1,765,000 · Housing & ShelterWilmington Area Rebuild…Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $805,000 · Housing & ShelterGood Shepherd Ministrie…+3 more — $530,000 · Housing & ShelterYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc — $5,465,458 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christ…Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc — $1,396,381 · Human ServicesCommunities in Sch…YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc — $1,257,062 · Human ServicesYWCA of the Lower …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,149,822 · Human ServicesAmerican National …LINC INC — $580,534 · Human ServicesDomestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc — $397,619 · Human Services+13 more — $1,120,800 · Human Services+13 moreCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $6,109,774 · EducationCAPE FEAR COM…GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION — $1,101,667 · EducationGIRLS LEADERS…SMART START OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY — $339,532 · Education+8 more — $962,500 · Education+8 moreCOLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY — $4,207,000 · Public BenefitST MARY DENTAL CLINIC CORP — $755,000 · HealthCoastal Horizons Center Inc — $550,000 · HealthThe Carousel Center Inc — $200,000 · HealthThe Healing Place of New Hanover County Inc — $200,000 · HealthACCESS DENTAL CARE INC — $140,500 · HealthEASTER SEALS UCP NORTH CAROLINA & VIRGINIA INC — $125,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $100,000 · HealthTIDES INC — $85,500 · Health+6 more — $126,300 · HealthUnited Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc — $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE FEAR CLINIC INC — $400,000 · Philanthropy
Other$27,575,385Housing & Shelter$14,160,000Human Services$11,367,676Education$8,513,473Public Benefit$4,207,000Health$2,282,300Philanthropy$1,600,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $6,109,774 over 2y, 37% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Southeastern North Carolina Inc — $5,465,458 over 2y, 26% of budgetSHELTER AMERICA GROUP — $4,700,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCOLLECTIVE IMPACT IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY — $4,207,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $3,700,000 over 2y, 51% of budgetNew Helping Ordinary People Excel Community Development Corporation — $2,660,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetNEW HANOVER COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $2,162,500 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc — $1,786,850 over 2y, 31% of budgetWilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc — $1,765,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc — $1,396,381 over 1y, 24% of budgetA Safe Place Inc — $1,348,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetYWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc — $1,257,062 over 2y, 39% of budgetUnited Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc — $1,200,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,149,822 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION — $1,101,667 over 1y, 15% of budgetNourishNC Inc — $818,390 over 2y, 33% of budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $805,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetST MARY DENTAL CLINIC CORP — $755,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetHousing Foundation of Southeastern North Carolina — $740,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetBlue Ribbon Commission on the Prevention of Youth Violence — $661,915 over 2y, 52% of budgetJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc — $626,277 over 2y, 16% of budgetCoastal Horizons Center Inc — $550,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC — $512,887 over 2y, 57% of budgetFEAST DOWN EAST INC — $481,760 over 2y, 63% of budgetCAPE FEAR CLINIC INC — $400,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetDomestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc — $397,619 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetWESLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $382,447 over 1y, 15% of budgetSMART START OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY — $339,532 over 2y, 11% of budgetEden Village of Wilmington — $280,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetWELCOME HOME ANGEL INC — $250,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetKIDS MAKING IT INC — $235,920 over 2y, 16% of budgetGenesis Block Foundation Inc — $226,200 over 2y, 71% of budgetFIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES — $200,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetThe Carousel Center Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetArts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County — $200,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetBEACON EDUCATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare — $197,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetClassical Charter Schools of America — $194,900 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $187,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetST MARY'S HOUSING CORP — $180,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA — $170,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $165,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS DENTAL CARE INC — $140,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetChild Development Center Inc — $140,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetELDERHAUS INC — $134,887 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPINE FOREST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $131,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPhoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington — $125,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetEAST CAROLINA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $125,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budget
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.

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 Foundati…North Carolina Commun…Cape Fear Memorial Fo…United Way of the Cap…Corning Incorporated …The Cynthia & George …The Eshelman Foundati…Novant Health IncThe Lagomarsino Found…The True North Founda…Dan Cameron Family Fo…The Myrtle and Rt Sin…
The Landfall Foundation IncNC109.8× affinity51 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 · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · Novant Health Inc · The Lagomarsino Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc

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 New Hanover Community Endowment 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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