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
Total funds awarded: $11,923,399
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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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