United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc
Wilmington, NC · EIN 56-0529949. Reported 134 grants totalling $3,378,766 to 57 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 65% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $29,926; the smallest was $5,049 and the largest $187,340. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Fear Healthnet Inc | Wilmington, NC | $293,176 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc | Wilmington, NC | $259,865 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blue Ribbon Commission Prevention of Youth Violence | Wilmington, NC | $201,240 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc | Wilmington, NC | $187,540 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Soaring As Eagles Inc | Wilmington, NC | $163,016 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kids Making It Inc | Wilmington, NC | $154,014 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc | Wilmington, NC | $152,809 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Home of North Carolina Inc | Lake Waccamaw, NC | $135,423 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Carousel Center Inc | Wilmington, NC | $118,993 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Child Development Center Inc | Wilmington, NC | $105,494 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Domestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc | Wilmington, NC | $89,321 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cape Fear Literacy Council | Wilmington, NC | $83,966 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| YWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc | Wilmington, NC | $83,908 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Family Promise of the Lower Cape Fear Inc | Wilmington, NC | $75,591 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Phoenix Employment Services of Wilmington Inc | Wilmington, NC | $71,450 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Quality Life Blueprint | Wilmington, NC | $70,660 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leading Into New Communities Inc | Wilmington, NC | $70,472 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Coastal Horizons Center Inc | Wilmington, NC | $61,958 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $61,896 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Young Scientist Academy | Wilmington, NC | $58,681 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc | Shallotte, NC | $55,304 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $55,274 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brigade Boys & Girls Club | Wilmington, NC | $54,411 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Diaper Bank of North Carolina | Hillsborough, NC | $54,288 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated | Wilmington, NC | $45,090 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbus County Dream Cntr Inc | Whiteville, NC | $44,667 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Smart Start of New Hanover County | Wilmington, NC | $42,986 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Counseling Center | Wilmington, NC | $39,941 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity Internal Inc | Wilmington, NC | $39,104 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Communities in Schools of Brunswick County | Southport, NC | $38,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dreams of Wilmington Inc | Wilmington, NC | $34,317 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Navigational Studios | Wilmington, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Support Network of Southeastern North Carolina Inc | Wilmington, NC | $29,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Columbus County Beekeepers Association | Whiteville, NC | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nourishnc Inc | Wilmington, NC | $26,106 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeaster North Carolina Inc | $22,752 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| A Bike for Every Child | Wilmington, NC | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mother Hubbards Cupboard of Wilmington Inc | Wilmington, NC | $21,049 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross Cape Fear Chapter | Wilmington, NC | $18,699 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wilmiingtons Residential Adolescent Achievement Place | Wilmington, NC | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pender County Christian Services Inc | Burgaw, NC | $16,060 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Waterway Nc | Wilmington, NC | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Hanover Community Health Center Inc | Wilmington, NC | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern | Wilmington, NC | $13,216 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Canines for Service Inc | Wilmington, NC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Christian Recovery Center Inc | Shallotte, NC | $12,150 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Matthews Ministry Inc | Southport, NC | $10,784 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbus County Partnership for Children | Whiteville, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pender Alliance for Total Health | Burgaw, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brunswick County Literacy Council Inc | Supply, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Theatre for All | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Wilmington Childrens Museum Inc | Wilmington, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Cumberland County Inc | Fayetteville, NC | $6,031 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Disabled American Verterans | $5,415 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc | Wilmington, NC | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Samaras Village | Southport, NC | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| A Safe Place Inc | Writsvlle Bch, NC | $5,049 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
36 of 57 (63%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 34 | $676,290 | $15,050 |
| 2022 | 48 | $1,993,843 | $28,594 |
| 2023 | 36 | $514,968 | $10,192 |
| 2024 | 16 | $193,665 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
98% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 127 Grace Street, Wilmington, NC, 28401.
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