Azalea Garden Tour Grants
For over 50 years, the Azalea Garden Tour, sponsored by Cape Fear Garden Club, has proudly returned thousands of dollars to New Hanover County. Tour profits benefit local community organizations through beautification and horticulture grants. In addition, funds support scholarships at UNCW and Cape Fear Community College and finance conservation efforts at Battery Island, a National Audubon Society sanctuary and the largest nesting site in North America for ibis, egrets and herons. Other special projects supported by the tour include garden therapy, youth gardener projects, and horticultural programs.
Grant Recipients 2019
$81,263 was Awarded on October 23, 2019
Ability Garden
The Airlie Gardens Foundation, Inc.
Renaissance Wilmington Foundation (Alliance for Cape Fear Trees)
Bellamy Mansion Museum
Bellevue Cemetery Foundation, Inc.
National Society of Colonial Dames of America (Burgwin-Wright House)
Cape Fear Clinic, Inc.
Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity
Cape Fear Museum Associates, Inc.
City of Wilmington – Maides Park
Codington Elementary School PTA
College Road Early Childhood Center (NHC Schools)
Community Enrichment Initiative, Inc.
Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington Foundation (GLOW)
Lower Cape Fear Historical Society (Latimer House)
Lower Cape Fear Hospice, Inc.
NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher
NC Coastal Federation, Inc.
NC Coastal Land Trust
Parks Conservancy of New Hanover County (Ogden Park)
Paws4People, Inc.
Rise Up Community Farm
Salvation Army of Cape Fear
Smart Start of New Hanover County
YMCA of Southeastern NC, Inc. (Midtown)
Standing Grants:
Audubon
Cape Fear Garden Club Endowed Scholarship – Cape Fear Community College
Cape Fear Garden Club Endowed Scholarship – University of North Carolina Wilmington