Education

We want every child to have strong learning opportunities from birth – graduation.

Investing in Early Childhood
Supporting Excellent Teachers
Promoting Whole-child Learning
Helping Students Explore College and Career Pathways

Focus Area:
Early Childhood Education
K–12 Achievement Gaps

Beacon Education

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $200,000

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Blank Canvas Awareness Art, Inc

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $3,500

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Blue Ribbon Commission on the Prevention of Youth Violence (DBA Voyage)

Years awarded: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $1,295,319

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Britt Foundation

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $4,528

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Brooklyn Arts Music Academy

Years awarded: 2022, 2025, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $165,949

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Camp Schreiber Foundation

Years awarded: 2022, 2026

Total funds awarded: $60,000

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Cape Fear Center for Inquiry

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $80,000

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Cape Fear Collective

Years awarded: 2022, 2024, 2024, 2024, 2025

Total funds awarded: $4,998,000

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Cape Fear Community College Foundation, Incorporated – CC

Years awarded: 2023, 2023, 2022, 2022, 2026, 2026

Total funds awarded: $19,326,476.74

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Cape Fear Guardian ad Litem Association

Years awarded: 2022, 2025

Total funds awarded: $56,500

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Cape Fear Literacy Council

Years awarded: 2022, 2023, 2025, 2025, 2025

Total funds awarded: $493,237

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Cape Fear Museum Associates, Inc

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $17,000

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Caridad Inc.

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $5,000

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Carolina Beach Mural Project

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $2,500

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Child Development Center

Years awarded: 2022, 2023, 2025, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $360,000

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Classical Charter Schools of America

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $194,900

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Communities in Schools of Cape Fear

Years awarded: 2023, 2024, 2025, 2025

Total funds awarded: $4,872,350

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Community Boys & Girls Club

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $133,650

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Easterseals UCP North Carolina and Virginia

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $125,000

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Education Without Walls

Years awarded: 2025, 2025, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $206,556

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Edwin A. Alderman Elementary School PTA

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $2,990

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El Cuerpo

Years awarded: 2025, 2023, 2022, 2026

Total funds awarded: $680,000

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Extensiton Master Gardener Volunteer Association

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $13,400

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Friends of the New Hanover County Arboretum, Inc

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $13,442

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Genesis Block Foundation

Years awarded: 2022, 2024, 2025, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $242,570

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Girl Scouts North Carolina Coastal Pines

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $4,528

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Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington (GLOW)

Years awarded: 2023, 2026

Total funds awarded: $4,201,000

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Greater Wilmington Chamber Foundation

Years awarded: 2022, 2023, 2026

Total funds awarded: $2,287,000

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Island Montessori Charter School

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $4,382

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Kids Making It

Years awarded: 2022, 2023, 2025

Total funds awarded: $1,135,920

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Leading Into New Communities, Inc (LINC)

Years awarded: 2022, 2024, 2024, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $4,428,264

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Masonboro.org

Years awarded: 2022, 2025

Total funds awarded: $63,000

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No Limit Boxing Club

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $18,500

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North Carolina American Legion Post 10

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $4,528

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North Carolina Aquarium Society

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $7,500,000

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North Carolina Coastal Land Trust

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $5,000

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Opera House Theatre Company

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $4,528

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Pine Forest Education & Learning Center

Year awarded: 2024

Total funds awarded: $131,000

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Pine Valley Elementary PTA

Years awarded: 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $20,000

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PTA at the International School of Gregory

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $5,000

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Purpose International

Years awarded: 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $14,528

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Region O Council for the Advancement of Minorities in Engineering

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $2,717

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SmartStart of New Hanover County

Years awarded: 2023, 2022

Total funds awarded: $778,596.60

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Soaring as Eagles Outreach Ministry Inc

Years awarded: 2022, 2025, 2025

Total funds awarded: $205,000

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StepUp Wilmington

Years awarded: 2022, 2025, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $456,028

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Thalian Association Community Theatre

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $4,528

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The Children’s Museum of Wilmington

Years awarded: 2022, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $106,400

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The Dance Cooperative

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $1,400

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Theatre for All, Inc

Year awarded: 2026

Total funds awarded: $80,000

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Third Person Project

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $17,000

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Transitions Foundation NC Inc

Years awarded: 2022, 2025

Total funds awarded: $31,000

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Trinity United Methodist Church

Year awarded: 2025

Total funds awarded: $5,000

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UNCW

Years awarded: 2022, 2022, 2022, 2022, 2022, 2022, 2022, 2022, 2022, 2023, 2023, 2025, 2025, 2026, 2026, 2026

Total funds awarded: $12,048,399

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Union Missionary Baptist Church

Years awarded: 2023, 2025, 2025, 2025

Total funds awarded: $859,348

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United Way of Cape Fear

Years awarded: 2024, 2025, 2025, 2025, 2026, 2026, 2026

Total funds awarded: $5,199,194

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WHQR Public Media

Years awarded: 2024, 2025, 2025

Total funds awarded: $44,083

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Williston Middle School PTA

Year awarded: 2026

Total funds awarded: $12,000

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Wilmington School of the Arts

Year awarded: 2022

Total funds awarded: $80,000

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Wilmington Symphony Orchestra

Years awarded: 2025, 2025

Total funds awarded: $8,673

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Wilmington Virtuosi Brass

Years awarded: 2025, 2025

Total funds awarded: $7,245

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Working Films

Years awarded: 2025, 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $24,528

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Wrightsboro UMC

Years awarded: 2025, 2026

Total funds awarded: $7,717

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Young Mogul Development Group

Years awarded: 2022, 2026

Total funds awarded: $65,000

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YWCA Lower Cape Fear

Years awarded: 2022, 2023, 2023 , 2025

Total funds awarded: $3,691,736

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