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 $5,028,722 to it, the largest being THE PEGGY ANN TRIPLETT FOUNDATION ($2,161,239). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008shared funders
- Ministering Circle of Wilmington NCportfolio match
- The Chapel Hill Residential Retirement Center Incportfolio match
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.
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
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) — 12% 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; 48% 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. $619k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 73 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008shared fundersNC · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Ministering Circle of Wilmington NCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chapel Hill Residential Retirement Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eluna Formerly the Moyer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ann F & John W Copeland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Incshared fundersNC · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Incshared fundersNC · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Triangle Community Foundation Incshared fundersNC · backs 111 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare: 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 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 $5,028,722 to it, the largest being THE PEGGY ANN TRIPLETT FOUNDATION ($2,161,239). 35 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 $5,028,722 in grants to Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare, 35 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?
- THE PEGGY ANN 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 73funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing