North Carolina · Nonprofit
GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,800 to it, the largest being NOVANT HEALTH INC ($56,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $928k
What Greater Wilmington Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
To protect and strengthen the wilmington business community and help businesses grow and thrive by providing members with business-building programs and events to help them connect and do business with one another.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023 the wilmington chamber hosted a total of 127 networking events, ribbon cuttings and committee meetings. In addition, the chamber launched the nc career coast talent attraction campaign aimed at attracting talent from outside the region to grow the size of the workforce as the number of jobs continues to grow. The wilmington chamber of commerce foundation received a grant to launch and serve as the anchor institution for the healthcare transformation project to attract, develop, and retain nursing students and professionals in new hanover county. The foundation also more than doubled the number of students participating in the career and leadership development academy in collaboration with new hanover county schools to provide current new hanover county middle school students an opportunity to acquire career, leadership, and education pathway knowledge throughout the ten-month program. The foundation also received a state appropriation to pilot the expansion of the program to all seventh graders and to grow the number of eighth graders in the program.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.4M to $2.5M (+79%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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 English
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $14k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $140k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Wilmington Chamber Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’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
GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Greater Wilmington Chamber Foundation · exempt
- Cape Fear Future Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 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 GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,800 to it, the largest being NOVANT HEALTH INC ($56,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $66,800 in grants to GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- NOVANT HEALTH INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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