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Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,594 to it, the largest being CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($197,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$586k
Net assets
$1.6M
12/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc does

Mission

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard serves the hungry in the Wilmington area through distribution of emergency food. This service is provided without discrimination by volunteers in collarboration with community organizations and businesses with care to preserve the dignity of the individuals served.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Mother Hubbard's Cupboard operates an emergency food distribution program serving individuals and families experiencing food insecurity in the Wilmington area. In 2025, the all-volunteer organization distributed approximately 1,118,613 pounds of food to 76,671 individuals, representing a 5% increase from 2024 and a 14% increase from 2023. Those served included children (38%), seniors (25%), unhoused individuals, and clients with special dietary needs. Food was distributed through regular service hours and community partnerships, including collaboration with the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and participation in programs serving high-need Medicaid enrollees.Mother Hubbard's Cupboard is a valued partner of the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and is one of the Food Bank's largest distributors for New Hanover County. We are proud of not only the quantity, but the quality of the food we provide our clients. Last year we bought cereal, milk, fresh produce, diabetic food supplies and meat when necessary to supplement the food we received from all other sources. In addition to the organization's regular weekly service for clients, the agency also provided…

    $1,715,144 spentof which $1,588,218 as grants$50,607 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,715,144.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($932k) Net assets 100 ($435k)2021 Revenue 112 ($1.3M) Expenses 126 ($1.2M) Net assets 141 ($613k)2022 Revenue 117 ($1.4M) Expenses 131 ($1.2M) Net assets 175 ($760k)2023 Revenue 178 ($2.1M) Expenses 192 ($1.8M) Net assets 265 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 179 ($2.2M) Expenses 220 ($2.1M) Net assets 292 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 167 ($2.0M) Expenses 187 ($1.7M) Net assets 363 ($1.6M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (167)Expenses (187)Net assets (363)

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 $768k to $1.2M (+51%).

$439k
$621k
$768k
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.6M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 98% · 2021 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$275k
’20
$174k
’21
$193k
’22
$357k
’23
$104k
’24
$271k
’25
1.5
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

Roxann Lansdowne

Chairman of the Board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed131414141512
Joined·+3+2+1+1+2
No longer listed·22105
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $35k → $73k.

4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

39% 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 Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc.

34%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 68% · 2019 51% · 2020 50% · 2021 48% · 2022 41% · 2023 44% — 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

50% of Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

95% of Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

CA
DE
NC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc

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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

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc?
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $585,594 to it, the largest being CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($197,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $585,594 in grants to Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc?
CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $197,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 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