NEW HANOVER COUNTY — The New Hanover Community Endowment is awarding eight new grants totaling more than $17 million for initial disbursement in 2025 or 2026 to expand healthcare access, strengthen youth and family services, provide safe and affordable housing, and preserve historic resources.
With these awards, The Endowment’s 2025 grantmaking reaches 167 grants totaling more than $58 million.
“These grants represent partnership in motion,” Sophie Dagenais, interim president and CEO, said in a press release. “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 grants include:
- MedNorth Health Center: $5 million 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 in New Hanover County and fund a full-time staff member at the Lower Cape Fear Branch
- Kids Making It: $900,000 to help support general operations, expand and 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 (LINC): $1.4 million to help sustain and continue LINC’s reentry programming
- New Hanover County Resiliency Task Force: $545,931 to support and expand evidence-based trauma-informed initiatives for service provider resilience
- Wilmington Housing Authority – $5.7 million (for disbursement in 2026) 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 million to support Thalian Hall’s capital campaign to expand usable square footage and programming while preserving a nationally recognized historic landmark, $2 million of which will be funded as a 1:2 matching grant
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