Thanks to support from Hurricanes fans, partners, Season Ticket Members, players and staff, the Foundation had the biggest year of giving in its 25-year history in 2024-25. Among the funds issued last season, the Foundation’s grant to the Boys & Girls Club of Wake County supported that organization’s Academic Intervention Program, which provides intensive, individualized tutoring and case management for over 60 students across five Clubs in Wake County. The Foundations grant to GiGi’s Playhouse supported therapeutic and educational programming for children with Down syndrome, including 1:1 math and literacy tutoring, speech-language services, summer camp experiences and family support. A grant to Girl Scouts North Carolina Coastal Pines supported that organization’s Community Engagement Program, which brings leadership development and life skills programming to 2,000 underserved girls across 41 counties. And the Foundation’s grant to the Cape Fear Youth Hockey Association funded equipment that enables military families — who comprise 91% of the organization – to watch their children’s home games remotely via secure streaming, overcoming base access limitations.
Additional major grant recipients for the Hurricanes Foundation in 2024-25 were Arts For Life, Book Harvest, Carolina Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA), Carolina Junior Hurricanes Hockey Association, Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, LLC, Green Chair Project, Greensboro Youth Hockey Association, NeighborHealth Center, North Carolina Amateur Sports, North East Wake Backpack Buddies, Note in the Pocket, Table, Tammy Lynn Center, The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health Education, The Carying Place, The Foundation of Hope for Research & Treatment of Mental Illness, Triangle Special Hockey, Triangle Youth Hockey of North Carolina, United Arts Council, Wake Education Partnership, Wilmington Junior Seahawks, Winston-Salem Youth Hockey Association and YMCA of the Triangle.