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UNITED WAY OF THE CAPE FEAR AREA INC

EIN 56-0529949 WILMINGTON, NC

Revenue 2024
$3,694,717
Expenses 2024
$2,948,814

Program services were 80.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T70Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1503

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

For every $1 an individual donated last year, $4.78 was invested into local programs and initiatives. The United Way of the Cape Fear Area (UWCFA) mission is to work with our community to leverage resources to improve the lives of local people. The last two years UWCFA leveraged more resources and invested them into the community than any other time in the history of the organization.

Activities or mission (Part I)

52,215 lives impacted by investing $2,870,262 in 71 local programs. Our vision is a united community that is healthy, safe and prosperous for everyone. United Way of the Cape Fear Area (UWCFA) serves Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover and Pender Counties. As an independent, locally owned and operated nonprofit UWCFA customizes program investments to address the most critical needs of our community. Each year, our teams of local volunteers determine the best social return on investments of time, treasure and talent.

  • Senior Community Service Employment program (SCSEP) has been affiliated with the United Way of the Cape Fear Area for more than 30 years. This Federally funded program trains and prepares low-income senior workers (55 and older) for entry or re-entry into the workforce.

    Expenses $653,583

  • The Marketing and Communications program supports key functions within UWCFA's structure including: community impact; resource development; SCSEP; and other critical initiatives identified by the community. UWCFA Marketing works to build awareness and visibility of the brand as a way to continually educate and inform the general public about what UWCFA and it's member agencies do and how this system of services are intertwined in the community. UWCFA uses visual and written communications and a variety of different advertising vehicles including: print, digital and social media avenues.

    Expenses $5,254

  • UWCFA, a local independent, autonomous 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is affiliated with United Way Worldwide. To maintain this membership, UWCFA adheres to numerous performance standards designed to ensure good volunteer governance, financial accountability and overall transparency. These standards are integrated with UWCFA's business model to assure the use of efficient administrative practices that maximize community impact. Community impact is the means by which donors can invest their charitable gifts in addressing the community's most critical issues and challenges and actually see measurable results of 71 local programs and initiatives that are changing lives. UWCFA provided your community with $2,386,641 in grants and allocations between July 1st 2024 and June 30th 2025. Each year, over 600 volunteer hours are invested in making sure each 3-year investment provides the best social return on the donation for the contributions.

    Expenses $1,727,804 · Grants $1,499,324

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Andy Almeter

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Doug Foreman

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Nicole Haverly

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Judge Quintin McGee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Pam Hardy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Caress Clegg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jonathan David

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Natalie English

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • LS Dean

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Chad McEwen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Tony McEwen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Billy Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Leah Mayo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • George Greenleaf

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Nathaniel Coleman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Bryce Dill

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Greg Holmes

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Cindy Jacobs

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Sarah Wright

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Tommy Taylor

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $98,296
    From this org
    $98,296
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,694,717
    Expenses
    $2,948,814
    Contributions
    $3,431,534
    Grants paid
    $1,499,324
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,179,616
    Expenses
    $3,408,834
    Contributions
    $2,936,552
    Grants paid
    $710,112
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,314,531
    Expenses
    $3,698,241
    Contributions
    $3,166,937
    Grants paid
    $2,148,042

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,093,133
    Expenses
    $2,601,532
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,529,651

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,563,696
    Expenses
    $2,700,532
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,840,899

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,014,019
    Expenses
    $2,997,045
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,004,767

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,421,092
    Expenses
    $3,982,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,253,894

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,974,413
    Expenses
    $3,096,064
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,617,032

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,057,325
    Expenses
    $3,224,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,759,345

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,057,325
    Expenses
    $3,224,095
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,759,345

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,084,858
    Expenses
    $3,216,320
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,878,053

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,323,281
    Expenses
    $3,298,974
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,020,334

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,834,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,969,146

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.