· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Communities in Schools Cape Fear | $10,000 |
| Brunswick Family Assistance | $10,000 |
| Good Shepherd Center | $9,000 |
| Diaper Bank of North Carolina - Lower Cape Fear | $8,500 |
| Community Counseling Center | $7,941 |
| Columbus County DREAMS Center Inc | $6,667 |
| Cape Fear Literacy Council | $6,667 |
| Family Promise of the Lower Cape Fear | $6,441 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $452k · revenue +97%
- 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide family-centered services to children and youth aged 8 to 21 who cannot remain at home due to dependency, neglect, or abuse by providing a wholesom atmosphere that is conducive to their emotional, social, spiritual and physical…
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,…
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…
CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
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 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.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
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…
How this is measured
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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