· Public charity
United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc
For every $1 an individual donated last year, $4.78 was invested into local programs and initiatives.
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 16 grants below total $193,665 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,499,324 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,305,659 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 $10k7 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cape Fear Health Net | $41,176 |
| Kids Making It Inc | $16,500 |
| Voyage (Formerly BRC) | $16,000 |
| Boys & Girls Home of NC | $13,333 |
| Coastal Horizons Center Inc | $11,912 |
| Carousel Center | $11,764 |
| Child Development Cener | $11,764 |
| Brunswick Family Assistance | $10,000 |
| Communities in Schools Cape Fear | $10,000 |
| Good Shepherd Center | $9,000 |
| Diaper Bank of North Carolina - Lower Cape Fear | $8,500 |
| Community Counseling Center | $7,941 |
| Cape Fear Literacy Council | $6,667 |
| Columbus County DREAMS Center Inc | $6,667 |
| Family Promise of the Lower Cape Fear | $6,441 |
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, $700k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% 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 +72% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $452k · revenue +87%
- WAWilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $376k · revenue +447%
- CICommunities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +484%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF RALEIGH INCone grant, 2019 · $156k
- TDTRIANGLE DISABILITY ADVOCATES INCone grant, 2017 · $152k · revenue -1%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST MENone grant, 2019 · $76k
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.
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…
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,…
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
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.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
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.
The organization provides assistance to youth in Wilkes, Ashe, Alleghany and Alexander counties in North Carolina who are identified as candidates for dropping out of school.
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc and the most unlike its peers is Navigational Studios. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 72 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 HEALTHNET INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds Blue Ribbon Commission on the Prevention of Youth Violence ↗
- Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Horizons Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds The Carousel Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds Soaring as Eagles Outreach Ministry ↗
- Who funds Domestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE DISABILITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc ↗
- Who funds Child Development Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington ↗
- Who funds SMART START OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LINC INC ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF WILMINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BRUNSWICK COUN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ↗
- Who funds QUALITY LIFE BLUEPRINT ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds PENDER COUNTY CHRISTIAN SVCS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SCIENTIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds MATTHEWS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER ↗
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: Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · The Eshelman Foundation · Novant Health Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · The Cannon 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 United Way of the Cape Fear Area 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.
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.