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CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION

CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$1k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Cape Fear Future Foundation does

Mission

To enhance and develop the cape fear region's knowledge sector economy in order to promote economic development and ensure the future prosperity of the region.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Promote economic development and ensure the futrure prosperity of the cape fear region

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($199k) Expenses 100 ($328k) Net assets 100 ($153k)2018 Revenue 21 ($43k) Expenses 24 ($80k) Net assets 75 ($115k)2019 Revenue 6 ($13k) Expenses 6 ($19k) Net assets 71 ($109k)2020 Revenue 20 ($39k) Expenses 34 ($112k) Net assets 23 ($35k)2021 Revenue 4 ($8k) Expenses 12 ($40k) Net assets 2 ($4k)2022 Revenue 4 ($9k) Expenses 3 ($10k) Net assets 2 ($3k)2023 Revenue 1 ($1k) Expenses 1 ($4k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (1)Expenses (1)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $109k to $36k (−67%).

$175k
$131k
$109k
$36k
$30k
$3k
$0
2017201820192020202120222023
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 89% · 2018 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$129k
’17
−$37k
’18
−$6k
’19
−$73k
’20
−$32k
’21
−$1k
’22
−$3k
’23
25
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.

Chief executive

Natalie H English

President/CEO

Board chair

Neal Andrew

Chairman

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

201720182019
Listed51011
Joined·+6+1
No longer listed·10
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION?
CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION?
DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPE FEAR FUTURE FOUNDATION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 1 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