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CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,117,551 to it, the largest being New Hanover Community Endowment Inc ($6,109,774). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$21M
Funders on record
45
Grants received
$10M
Net assets
$42M
30/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Cape Fear Community College Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide scholarships for college students and to support the programs of cape fear community college.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarships to students at cape fear community college and mini-grants to instructors, based on documented criteria.

    $1,241,278 spentof which $1,241,278 as grants
    13% of program spending
  2. Donations of cash to cape fear community college for educational support and for various services and improvements and to assist in generating cash and non-cash support from businesses and individuals to help further the programs of the college.

    $8,278,121 spent
    86% of program spending
  3. Donations of non-cash items to cape fear community college to help further the programs of the college.

    $55,779 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,575,178.

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 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 135 ($2.7M) Expenses 125 ($1.6M) Net assets 116 ($12M)2019 Revenue 83 ($1.6M) Expenses 123 ($1.6M) Net assets 123 ($13M)2020 Revenue 74 ($1.5M) Expenses 86 ($1.1M) Net assets 126 ($13M)2021 Revenue 175 ($3.5M) Expenses 127 ($1.7M) Net assets 166 ($18M)2022 Revenue 164 ($3.2M) Expenses 81 ($1.1M) Net assets 157 ($17M)2023 Revenue 192 ($3.8M) Expenses 122 ($1.6M) Net assets 180 ($19M)2024 Revenue 768 ($15M) Expenses 263 ($3.5M) Net assets 274 ($29M)2025 Revenue 1089 ($21M) Expenses 752 ($9.9M) Net assets 396 ($42M)
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Revenue (1089)Expenses (752)Net assets (396)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 $30M to $42M (+43%).

$11M
$12M
$13M
$13M
$18M
$17M
$19M
$30M
$42M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 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.

$656k
’17
$1.0M
’18
$19k
’19
$322k
’20
$1.8M
’21
$2.2M
’22
$2.2M
’23
$12M
’24
$12M
’25
6.1
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.

Board chair

Tiffany Barlow

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed272627292021161812
Joined·+8+6+9+11+4+6+3+2
No longer listed·9572031118
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $195k → $662k.

13 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 funders by total. 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

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

31% 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 CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.

60%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 38% · 2019 32% · 2020 32% · 2021 46% · 2022 47% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.

“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

38% of CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

96% of CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
MA
CT
TN
NC
GA
TX

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. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin54% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cape Fear Community College · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,117,551 to it, the largest being New Hanover Community Endowment Inc ($6,109,774). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $10,117,551 in grants to CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
New Hanover Community Endowment Inc is the largest funder on record, with $6,109,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC 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.

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 45 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