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The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc

The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,458 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($41,927). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$71k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$64k
Net assets
$357k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc does

Mission

The mission is to advance womens leadership for meaningful community impact. The Junior League of Wilmington, NC, Inc. is an organization of women whose mission is to advance womens leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provided products and grants to local nonprofits for women, children and the homeless; provided women the opportunity to attend training and leadership development conferences.

    $63,562 spentof which $6,900 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $63,562.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($275k)2018 Revenue 110 ($107k) Expenses 91 ($109k) Net assets 100 ($275k)2019 Revenue 94 ($91k) Expenses 88 ($105k) Net assets 92 ($252k)2020 Revenue 77 ($75k) Expenses 53 ($63k) Net assets 93 ($257k)2021 Revenue 63 ($61k) Expenses 40 ($48k) Net assets 113 ($312k)2022 Revenue 90 ($88k) Expenses 53 ($64k) Net assets 110 ($302k)2023 Revenue 101 ($98k) Expenses 68 ($81k) Net assets 113 ($312k)2024 Revenue 68 ($66k) Expenses 53 ($64k) Net assets 122 ($337k)2025 Revenue 73 ($71k) Expenses 51 ($61k) Net assets 130 ($357k)
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Revenue (73)Expenses (51)Net assets (130)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 2020 to 2021, from $270k to $324k (+20%).

$282k
$304k
$278k
$270k
$324k
$319k
$324k
$348k
$369k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

33% of The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$23k
’17
−$2k
’18
−$14k
’19
$11k
’20
$14k
’21
$24k
’22
$17k
’23
$2k
’24
$10k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $1k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc’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

The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83% 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 The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc.

65%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 66% · 2022 69% · 2023 81% — 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.

Where its funders are

83% of The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $11k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states.

IL
NY
MO
NC

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

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’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Against its field

The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc

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

88%

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 The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc?
The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,458 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($41,927). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $64,458 in grants to The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $41,927 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Junior League of WilmingtonNorth CarolinaInc 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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