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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,500 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($4,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$2.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Community Development Foundation does

Mission

Economic development in fayetteville nc and cumberland county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization is engaging in economic development activities intended to increase the tax base or creat jobs in the city of fayetteville and cumberland county.

    $465,414 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $465,414.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($92k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($140k)2024 Revenue 216 ($199k) Expenses 180 ($126k) Net assets 152 ($213k)2025 Revenue 2609 ($2.4M) Expenses 681 ($476k) Net assets 1683 ($2.4M)
202320242025
Revenue (2609)Expenses (681)Net assets (1683)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 $2.7M to $7.4M (+172%).

$2.6M
$2.7M
$7.4M
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’23
$73k
’24
$1.9M
’25
137
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

John Mccauley

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed242422
Joined·+0+1
No longer listed·03
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $3k.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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

’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

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

Against its field

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin80% · top quartile
Months of reserve136.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)411% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,500 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($4,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,500 in grants to COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), 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