North Carolina · Nonprofit
WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION
WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,370 to it, the largest being United Community Bank Foundation ($1,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 14,813 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,813 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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.
- New Hanover Community Endowment Inclocal
- Florida Firefighters Charities Trustportfolio match
- Gary Sinise Foundationportfolio 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.
100% of WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION’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
WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- New Hanover Community Endowment InclocalNC · funds 106 organizations near you
- Florida Firefighters Charities Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gary Sinise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jacksonville Frat Order of Police Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kash Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Fire Protection Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Valor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Families Behind the Badge Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Fraternal Order of Police Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rachel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION?
- WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,370 to it, the largest being United Community Bank Foundation ($1,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,370 in grants to WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION?
- United Community Bank Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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