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Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice.

$535k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$3.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MPhilanthropy$810kHealth$258kCrime & Legal$181kInternational$174kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$86kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $250,808 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $535,295 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $284,487 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$936M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CRO$101,325
UNITED WAY$81,983
PROJECT CURE$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA$7,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Monsoon Asians and Pacific Islanders: $23k → 10%American Red Cross: $214k → 14%American Red Cross: $168k → 14%WOMEN'S CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $6k → 8%American Red Cross: $123k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CRO: $61k → 8%American National Red Cross: $121k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CRO: $101k → 14%American National Red Cross: $95k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CRO: $78k → 14%NOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $6k → 11%Lifting Individuals & Fam: $6k → 11%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $7k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ID
NY
MA
WY
IA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA

Grants abroad, by region — $56k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$37k · 66% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

Sub-Saharan Africa$12k · 22% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

East Asia and the Pacific$7k · 13% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 25 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
43

Total granted

$2.5M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+11%

Still filing today

84%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2024 · $961k · revenue +46%
  • FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +98%
  • CI
    CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $57k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • NI
    NCINNOVATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2.9M · revenue ×26 · 28% of their budget
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -62%
  • DT
    DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
2
The Resiliency Collaborative Inc

Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.

Education
3
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
4
Triangle Family Services Inc

Triangle family services fulfills its mission of building a stronger community by strengthening the family through services in the following core program areas: family safety, financial stability, housing security, and mental health.

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5
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
6
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
7
The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Nccadv leads the state's movement to end domestic violence and to enhance work with survivors through collaborations, innovative trainings, prevention, technical assistance, state policy development and legal advocacy.

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8
Nc Budget & Tax Center

As a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, we work to document and analyze fiscal and economic conditions in partnership with community leaders and north carolinians with lived experience of poverty to advance systemic solutions through…

Civil Rights
9
Justicematters Inc

Justicematters addresses the roots and repercussions of human trafficking. we do this by providing trauma-informed legal services throughout north carolina and promoting just policies and practices impacting our clients and community. our…

Crime & Legal
10
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc

Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…

Human Services
11
Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

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12
Raleigh County Community Action Association Inc

Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Triangle East Chapter 100 Black Men of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportDomestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Community Food PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringYouth Mentoring ProgramsSchool District FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%2%<5yr16%13%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr12%27%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%51%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr12%6%35–55yr12%19%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/73
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,107

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
38/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NCINNOVATION INC — $2,900,000 · EducationNCINNOVATION INC+6 more — $98,409 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $961,098 · Human ServicesAmerican National R…+7 more — $69,250 · Human Services+7 moreUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC — $773,813 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF T…+4 more — $30,183 · PhilanthropyAmerican Red Cross Metro Atlanta Chapter — $55,000 · OtherAmerican R…DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $50,000 · OtherDURHAM TEC…ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $23,660 · OtherWAKEMED — $20,000 · OtherFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $58,000 · OtherFOOD BANK …THE DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP — $50,000 · OtherTHE DURHAM…NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER — $25,000 · Other+28 more — $271,250 · Other+28 moreBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $140,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $56,500 · Health+5 more — $31,000 · HealthEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $151,799 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $38,173 · Civil RightsUnited States Association for UNHCR — $50,000 · InternationalRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC — $47,610 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $25,444 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · InternationalGo Global NC Council Inc — $15,500 · InternationalMADRE INC — $15,000 · International
Education$2,998,409Human Services$1,030,348Philanthropy$803,996Other$552,910Health$227,500Civil Rights$189,972International$173,554

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNCINNOVATION INC — $2,900,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $961,098 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC — $773,813 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $151,799 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC — $58,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $56,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP — $50,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC — $47,610 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $38,173 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $25,444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND — $23,660 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONSOON ASIANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN SOLIDARITY — $23,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $21,620 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORCH CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO — $17,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGo Global NC Council Inc — $15,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMADRE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNo One Left Behind — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD — $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $12,890 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLAYTON AREA MINISTRIES INC — $12,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOAK CITY CARES INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOOKS FOR KEEPS INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund — $10,289 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S BIRTH AND WELLNESS CENTER INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpstream Works — $6,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARIAM CLINIC — $6,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLifting Individuals and Families to Exce — $6,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetSAFECHILD — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRIANGLE NONPROFIT & VOLUNTEER LEADERSHIP CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLUNG CANCER INITIATIVE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Triangle Community Fo…United Way of the Gre…Duke UniversityAj Fletcher FoundationDuke University Healt…North Carolina Commun…Duke Energy FoundationCarolinas Credit Unio…W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…The Mary Duke Biddle …Credit Suisse America…The Leon Levine Found…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC49.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Carolinas Credit Union Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Research Triangle Institute funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Research Triangle Institute?

Find your warmest path to Research Triangle Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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