More than $17 million in grants from The Endowment
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The Endowment is awarding eight new grants totaling more than $17 million for initial disbursement in 2025 or 2026.
The grants will be used to expand healthcare access, strengthen youth and family services, provide safe and affordable housing, and preserve historic resources.
With these latest awards, The Endowment’s 2025 grantmaking reaches 167 grants totaling more than $58 million, benefiting New Hanover County.
“These grants represent partnership in motion,” said Sophie Dagenais, Interim President and CEO of The Endowment. “By investing in health, housing, youth programs, and community resources, we’re strengthening the systems that keep opportunity and resilience within reach for everyone in New Hanover County.”
The full list of grants is as follows:
- MedNorth Health Center – $5,000,000 to complete the expansion and renovation of the center, increasing access to care and essential services
- Diaper Bank of North Carolina – $447,906 to expand the eHub program and fund a full-time staff member at the Lower Cape Fear Branch
- Kids Making It – $900,000 to help support general operations, expand, diversify funding, and launch the Apprentice Campus
- Boys and Girls Home of North Carolina, Inc – $235,000 to support foster care prevention through intensive in-home services
- Leading Into New Communities, Inc – $1,400,000 to help sustain and continue the reentry programming
- New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force – $545,931 to support and expand evidence-based trauma informed initiatives for service provider resilience
- Wilmington House Authority – $5,700,000 to fund Phase I of the Hillcrest Redevelopment, including the construction of 84 senior rental units
- Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Inc – $3,000,000 to support Thalian Hall’s capital campaign to expand usable square footage and programming. $2,00,000 of which will be funded as a 1:2 matching grant
