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ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON

ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,609 to it, the largest being The Landfall Foundation Inc ($62,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$714k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$155k
Net assets
$948k
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Assistance League of Greater Wilmington does

Mission

All volunteer organization that raises money to support multiple programs for students, teachers, and senior adults providing essential needs to transform their lives and help families and our community flourish.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Operation school bell (osb)serves 44 schools in the tri-county (new hanover, brunswick, and pender counties)of north carolina. Clothing, backpacks, hygiene kits, school supplies, books, school nurse supplies and snacks are provided to the schools. Middle school students participate in a shopping event for students and their parents to shop for clothing and school supplies. The snack pack program provides healthy snacks and box drinks that are distributed to schools. Each osb school receives books for every third grader to choose a book to read and keep.

    $196,432 spent
    46% of program spending
  2. Links to learning is grant award program for educators of new hanover, brunswick, and pender counties. These awards are dedicated to supplement the students education by aiding educators to enhance curriculum and learning experiences.

    $83,493 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. Operation scholar support program - Assistance League of Greater Wilmington provides scholarships to benefit students at brunswick community college (brunswick county), cape fear community college (new hanover county), and the watson college of education at the university of north carolina wilmington.

    $60,000 spent
    14% of program spending
  4. Operation its in the bag is a redistribution program that provides items, donated to our thrift shop but not sold, to other philanthropic facilities and programs.

    $47,425 spent
    11% of program spending
  5. Operation teddy bears - teddy bears are distributed to children receiving treatment and services at medical facilities or from emergency service agencies in brunswick, new hanover, and pender counties.

    $18,978 spent
    4% of program spending
  6. Operation seniors - programs include entertainment, social activities, snacks, seasonal decor, meals and household supplies.

    $9,325 spent
    2% of program spending
  7. Operation secu family house at novant health, wilmington - members provide seasonal meals, snacks, and furnishings for family members of patients.

    $4,312 spent
    1% of program spending
  8. Operation tender loving care assists with community needs on a one-time or short-term basis through requests from local agencies.

    $1,365 spent
    0% of program spending
  9. Slightly off-key stringalongs (soks), a ukulele and singing group that entertains at assisted living and long-term care facilities in brunswick, new hanover, and pender counties.

    $1,315 spent
    0% of program spending

The 9 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $422,645.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($309k) Expenses 100 ($254k) Net assets 100 ($323k)2018 Revenue 109 ($337k) Expenses 112 ($286k) Net assets 116 ($375k)2019 Revenue 120 ($370k) Expenses 125 ($318k) Net assets 132 ($427k)2020 Revenue 104 ($323k) Expenses 117 ($297k) Net assets 140 ($453k)2021 Revenue 90 ($278k) Expenses 95 ($241k) Net assets 152 ($490k)2022 Revenue 144 ($447k) Expenses 137 ($349k) Net assets 182 ($589k)2023 Revenue 188 ($582k) Expenses 179 ($456k) Net assets 221 ($715k)2024 Revenue 204 ($631k) Expenses 210 ($534k) Net assets 251 ($811k)2025 Revenue 231 ($714k) Expenses 227 ($578k) Net assets 293 ($948k)
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Revenue (231)Expenses (227)Net assets (293)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $857k to $1.1M (+29%).

$336k
$387k
$438k
$464k
$501k
$602k
$799k
$857k
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$55k
’17
$52k
’18
$52k
’19
$26k
’20
$37k
’21
$98k
’22
$126k
’23
$96k
’24
$137k
’25
18
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed8888789910
Joined·+4+5+5+2+6+5+3+5
No longer listed·45535434
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $12k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON.

40%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 59% · 2020 51% · 2021 76% · 2022 82% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

81% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve17.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 1%Fundraising 19%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON?
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $154,609 to it, the largest being The Landfall Foundation Inc ($62,250). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $154,609 in grants to ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON?
The Landfall Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $62,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER WILMINGTON find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing