Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Wilmington, North Carolina

49
foundations with a Wilmington address
$76.9M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
14
say they accept unsolicited
$8,813
median grant

Grantlas lists 49 foundations that gave a Wilmington, North Carolina address on their tax filing — 42 private foundations and 7 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $76.9 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 14 of them (29%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Wilmington foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 49 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Wilmington, North Carolina
Cape Fear Memorial FoundationAccepts$60,000$2.9M$1,000–$275,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ka FoundationAccepts$55,000$1.2M$25,000–$350,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Champion McDowell Davis CharitableAccepts$22,375$1.1M$1,250–$850,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Elizabeth L Carter FoundationAccepts$314,000$729,000$100,000–$415,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dan Cameron Family Foundation IncAccepts$1,000$684,900$300–$75,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Brooks Family Foundation TrustAccepts$50,000$495,000$25,000–$100,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Catherine Kennedy HomeAccepts$3,000$243,500$500–$25,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ann L Turner & Geoffrey M TennantAccepts$14,182$115,364$1,000–$100,000Up 18% over 3 yearsFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Loweth-Alvord FoundationAccepts$1,000$52,700$250–$6,500No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Joanna FoundationAccepts$44,401$43,200$43,200–$45,601No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Fore-Christ IncAccepts$1,500$12,000$189–$10,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Japajag FoundationAccepts$200$9,000$50–$2,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Living Fearless Foundation IncAccepts$7,538$7,538—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Glen Meade Foundation IncAccepts$1,000$3,102$500–$1,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
New Hanover Community Endowment IncCommunity foundationNot stated$382,447Over $5k only$60.7M$34,973–$5.6MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bruce Barclay Cameron Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated$50,000Over $5k only$1.8M$10,000–$600,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way of the Cape Fear Area IncFederationNot stated$10,000Over $5k only$1.5M$6,000–$41,176No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Landfall Foundation IncFederationNot stated$7,625Over $5k only$698,469$5,000–$50,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Hagood Hope for Children IncPublic foundationNot stated$40,500Over $5k only$183,500$15,000–$43,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Willie Stargell Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated—Over $5k only$150,107—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Dustins Green House Memorial IncPublic foundationNot stated$10,000Over $5k only$44,108$9,408–$20,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Womens Independence ScholarshipInvitation only$1.3M$1.2M$1.2M–$1.3MNo grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern NcInvitation only$508,847$508,847—No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Scholars of SustenanceInvitation only$97,057$508,443$50,736–$277,112No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Weil FoundationInvitation only$2,000$285,229$50–$50,000No grants on file for the year three years back, so there is nothing to compareFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.
  • 3-yr trend compares the latest filing year with the year two before it, so it needs grants on file for both. Most foundations file one year of grants, so most rows show a dash.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.