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WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION

WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,970 to it, the largest being HAGOOD HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC ($5,950). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$6k
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
0/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,133 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve46.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,133 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($19k)2021 Revenue 12 ($2k) Expenses 44 ($7k) Net assets 74 ($14k)2022 Revenue 38 ($6k) Expenses 21 ($3k) Net assets 89 ($17k)2023 Revenue 21 ($4k) Expenses 20 ($3k) Net assets 91 ($18k)2024 Revenue 21 ($4k) Expenses 21 ($3k) Net assets 92 ($18k)2025 Revenue 30 ($5k) Expenses 29 ($5k) Net assets 94 ($18k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (30)Expenses (29)Net assets (94)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20 → $6k.

Funder
'18
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of WILMINGTON NC LIONS 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 NC LIONS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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

100% of WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC
TX

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

18
23
North Carolina out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 NC LIONS 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILMINGTON NC LIONS 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.

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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 NC LIONS FOUNDATION?
WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,970 to it, the largest being HAGOOD HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC ($5,950). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,970 in grants to WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of WILMINGTON NC LIONS FOUNDATION?
HAGOOD HOPE FOR CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILMINGTON NC LIONS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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