About Landfall Foundation
The Landfall Foundation Inc awards project grants and capital support across arts, education, and health & welfare, with recent gifts reaching up to $30,000. Its work is rooted in Brunswick, New Hanover, and Pender Counties, and the grant list shows a consistent pattern of support for local schools, clinics, museums, and community organizations. In 2025, New Hope Clinic received $30,000, while Cape Fear Group Homes received $27,000, reflecting a grantmaker that backs both direct human services and organizational needs. Earlier grants also went to Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina in Wilmington and StepUp Wilmington Phoenix, showing a local emphasis on basic needs and community stability.
The foundation’s program structure points to a mix of competitive project grants, capital grants, and scholarships tied to Country Club of Landfall employees. Project grants are intended for defined work completed in one to two years, while capital grants can support property acquisition, construction, renovations, repairs, and equipment. Scholarship support extends higher education assistance to eligible employees, linking philanthropy to workforce development in the Wilmington area.
What Landfall Foundation Funds
Arts funding appears in support for cultural and enrichment organizations, including $10,000 to Opera House Theatre Company in 2025 and $9,300 to Wilmington Jewish Film Festival in 2024. Education is another clear lane: Young Scientist Academy received $10,000 in 2025 and $9,300 in 2024, and Winter Park Elementary School received $10,000 in 2025. Health and welfare grants include $10,000 to YWCA Lower Cape Fear in 2024 and $8,000 to Cape Fear Clinic Inc in 2024, both tied to community-serving needs.
The foundation also funds school-based and youth-oriented groups such as Ogden Elementary PTA, Edwin Alderman Elementary PTA, and Emma B Trask Middle School Band, indicating support that reaches classrooms, parent groups, and extracurricular programming. Across these examples, the foundation’s giving is organized around specific projects rather than broad, open-ended categories.
How Landfall Foundation Gives
Typical grant size is modest and clustered tightly around the middle of the distribution: p25 is $5,492, median is $6,500, and p75 is $7,500. The recent grant list also shows a ceiling-based structure, with project grants capped at $10,000 and capital grants capped at $30,000. Recipients appear repeatedly across years, including Young Scientist Academy, Rocky Point Elementary School, and Emma B Trask Middle School Band, which suggests ongoing relationships rather than one-time awards. The foundation is a grantmaking nonprofit with broad charitable grantmaking, unrestricted/general operating support, and core/organizational support in its profile, alongside competitive project and capital programs. Applications are accepted through designated forms for project and capital grants.
