North Carolina · Nonprofit
Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare
Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare (North Carolina) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,078,722 to it, the largest being PEGGY A TRIPLETT FOUNDATION ($2,161,239). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare does
Mission
Hospice care for terminally ill patients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCareCenter (LCFH and LCC) provide professional health care and comfort to people with life limiting illnesses and offer hope, support, and education. LCFH focuses on the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of patients and their families during illness, death, and bereavement. Through end-of-life hospice care, transitional programs and services, and community outreach, LCFH and LCC strive to help its community members live their lives well, however short or long their lives may be.
$34,738,343 spent$43,748,669 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $34,738,343.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $67M to $62M (−7%).
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 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Gwendolyn Whitley
President & CEO
Board chair
Robert Resh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell $398k → $344k.
10 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $134k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare raised.
From the IRS filings of Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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
Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 35% · 2019 36% · 2020 77% · 2021 18% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
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
91% of Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare'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. $669k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare's revenue grew 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare
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.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Lower Cape Fear Hospice Foundation Inc · exempt
- LifeCare Memory Partners · exempt
- LifeCare Supportive Medicine Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare?
- Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare (North Carolina) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,078,722 to it, the largest being PEGGY A TRIPLETT FOUNDATION ($2,161,239). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $5,078,722 in grants to Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare?
- PEGGY A TRIPLETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,161,239 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare 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 73 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