· Public charity
The Landfall Foundation Inc
To provide funds to local non-profit organizations and schools serving Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties in North Carolina for programs and projects that provide for the arts, education, and health and welfare.
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 60 grants below total $662,756 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $698,469 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,713 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 $10k20 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $463k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Canines for Service Inc | $50,000 |
| Kids Making It Inc | $40,083 |
| Eden Village of Wilmington | $40,000 |
| Domestic Violence Shelter & Service | $23,374 |
| Mouths of Babes Theatre | $10,000 |
| Frank H Kenan Chapel at Landfall | $10,000 |
| Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum | $10,000 |
| Wrightsboro Elementary | $10,000 |
| Young Scientist Academy | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic | $10,000 |
| Family Promise of the Lower Cape Fe | $10,000 |
| Christian Recovery Centers Inc | $10,000 |
| DREAMS of Wilmington | $10,000 |
| Soaring as Eagles Outreach Ministry | $10,000 |
| NourishNC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 17 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- DVDomestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +86%
- KMKIDS MAKING IT INC5× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +55%
- NINourishNC Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +377%
Funded once
- CFCAPE FEAR GROUP HOMES INCone grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue +0%
- OIOCEAN ISLE MUSEUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue -6%
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +524%
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.
The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
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.
Operation of a public charter school.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
Public K-8 charter school located in New Hanover County, providing tuition-free education to the public and open to all residents of North Carolina.
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…
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…
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
The organization is working on behalf of North Carolina's coast, and those who love it, by seeking to encourage government action and funding, educate and advocate for effective Federal and State policy, and facilitate environmentally…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Literacy Council and the most unlike its peers is The Frank H Kenan Chapel at Landfall. 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 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 144 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 Domestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON ↗
- Who funds Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds THE THALIAN ASSOCIATON OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JAZZ FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR ↗
- Who funds Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cape Fear Guardian ad Litem Association ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCIENTIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST MARY DENTAL CLINIC CORP ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BRUNSWICK COUN ↗
- Who funds Blue Ribbon Commission on the Prevention of Youth Violence ↗
- Who funds Eden Village of Wilmington ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Lump to Laughter Inc ↗
- Who funds Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF WILMINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds Wilmington Jewish Film Festival ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR HEALTHNET INC ↗
- Who funds The Frank H Kenan Chapel at Landfall ↗
- Who funds The Carousel Center 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 · North Carolina Community Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · Novant Health Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · The Lagomarsino 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 organization The Landfall 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.
- Market Street Music Corporation — 11% 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.