North Carolina · Nonprofit
VIGILANT HOPE INC
VIGILANT HOPE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($230,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $787k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $325k
- Net assets
- $380k
What Vigilant Hope Inc does
Mission
Following the way of jesus, we work with wilmington's southside toward thriving and equipping faith communities to walk with neglected neighbors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community ministry and outreachthe organization's street outreach team conducted community events to address food insecurity by distributing meals and connecting individuals to partner agencies offering housing, employment, and health resources. The team also recruited, trained, and supported volunteer groups to operate mobile shower units, promoting hygiene and dignity for unhoused individuals. Additionally, the training team facilitated immersive and classroom-based learning experiences to equip individuals facing hardship and empower community members seeking to serve effectively.
$274,867 spent55% of program spendingCommunity hospitality initiativethe organization operated a wholesale coffee roasting initiative and a community cafe to support its exempt purpose of fostering cross-cultural connection, economic opportunity, and community engagement. The cafe provided a welcoming space for all individuals, created employment opportunities for people experiencing poverty, and supported a minority-owned small business through affordable rental space. These activities also served to raise awareness of the organization's mission and amplify the voices of marginalized community members through events and storytelling. The roastery is a job-training and apprenticeship site that gives southside youth a meaningful employment experience, advancing our economic-opportunity mission. The roastery is where community members and donors come together to engage with vigilant hope and one another, functioning as a community center whose costs are supplemented by the sale of coffee and goods.
$225,498 spent45% of program spendingCommunity training and consultingfacilitated over 60 training events with churches, businesses, and individuals, equipping them to leverage their gifts, finances, influence, and talents to make tangible, meaningful difference in our city.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $500,365.
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 2022 to 2023, from $236k to $526k (+122%).
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: 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of VIGILANT HOPE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Laura Bullock
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $56k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 VIGILANT HOPE INC’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
VIGILANT HOPE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 VIGILANT HOPE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 35% · 2019 81% · 2020 67% · 2021 34% · 2022 58% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of VIGILANT HOPE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
86% of VIGILANT HOPE INC'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 $46k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
VIGILANT HOPE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VIGILANT HOPE INC
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VIGILANT HOPE INC?
- VIGILANT HOPE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $325,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($230,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VIGILANT HOPE INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $325,412 in grants to VIGILANT HOPE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VIGILANT HOPE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $230,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VIGILANT HOPE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing