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FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN

FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,125 to it, the largest being RIDDLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,125). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$139k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$122k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Friends of Cape Fear Botanical Garden does

Mission

To support mission of garden through fundraising efforts

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Support cape fear bontanical garden's education and cultural programming including school field trips and tours, workshops, therapeutic horticulture, and public events such as holiday lights, heritage festival, boo-tanical. Also funds maintain the collection of plants for all to enjoy. The garden served 53,591 people in 2022 .

    $113,641 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $113,641.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($27k) Expenses 100 ($25k) Net assets 100 ($1k)2020 Expenses 3 ($795) Net assets 34 ($402)2022 Revenue 219 ($58k) Expenses 120 ($31k) Net assets 2371 ($28k)2023 Revenue 423 ($113k) Expenses 186 ($47k) Net assets 8034 ($96k)2024 Revenue 522 ($139k) Expenses 452 ($115k) Net assets 10169 ($122k)
20192020202220232024
Revenue (522)Expenses (452)Net assets (10169)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 2022 to 2023, from $48k to $96k (+100%).

$11k
$20k
$48k
$96k
$122k
20192020202220232024
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.

2019
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

69% of FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1k
’19
−$795
’20
$28k
’22
$65k
’23
$24k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN’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 FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN'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

Against its field

FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)39% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN?
FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,125 to it, the largest being RIDDLE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,125). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,125 in grants to FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN?
RIDDLE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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