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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.

$263k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$152k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MPhilanthropy$810kHealth$258kCrime & Legal$181kInternational$174kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $243,874, the rows itemized in this filing. The $263,061 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,187 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $224k
$71,700
Median grant
2
States reached
$947M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$152,174
UNITED WAY$71,700
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTAL PLAINS$10,000
DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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 NATIONAL RED CROSS: $152k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CRO: $61k → 8%American Red Cross: $123k → 14%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
MA
WY
IA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 25 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
43

Total granted

$2.7M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+19%

Still filing today

84%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +46%
  • THE DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP
    6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +100%
  • FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • NI
    NCINNOVATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2.9M · revenue ×26 · 28% of their budget
  • DT
    DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -59%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
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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4
The Family Violence Prevention Center Inc

Dedicated to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in wake county, nc. interact is a private, nonprofit agency that saves lives, rebuilds lives, and secures safer futures for victims, survivors, and their families. the agency…

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5
Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food to cultivate community and alleviate hunger. through community food access, agriculture, education, and strategic partnerships, we work toward a…

Food & Nutrition
6
Durham's Partnership for Children

To ensure every child in durham enters school ready to succeed, we lead community strategies for children birth to 5, and their families that promote healthy development and learning and echance access to high quality care.

Education
7
Public School Forum of Nc Inc

All north carolina children shall have the opportunity to reach their full potential through equitable and meaningful public education that nourishes our state's civic and economic vitality.to provide trusted, nonpartisan, evidence-based…

Education
8
The Partnership Inc

The mission of the partnership, inc. is to ensure and enhance economic competitiveness by attracting, developing, retaining, and convening executives and professionals of color so that both individuals, and the companies they work for,…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc. mobilizes volunteers and resources to provide supplemental food assistance to the 1 in 5 children in New Hanover County who struggle with hunger. NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to enhance children's health and well-being by…

Food & Nutrition
11
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
12
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. Our staff of more than 3,700 provides research and technical (continued on…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NCINNOVATION INC: $2,900,000 · EducationNCINNOVATION INC+6 more: $98,409 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,113,272 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red…+7 more: $69,250 · Human Services+7 moreUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC: $845,513 · 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: $60,000 · OtherTHE DURHAM…NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER: $25,000 · Other+29 more: $281,250 · Other+29 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$1,182,522Philanthropy$875,696Other$572,910Health$227,500Civil Rights$189,972International$173,554

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNCINNOVATION INC: $2,900,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,113,272 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC: $845,513 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $151,799 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DURHAM JAZZ WORKSHOP: $60,000 over 6y, 5.1% 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 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 budgetNo One Left Behind: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADRE INC: $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 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 budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLAYTON AREA MINISTRIES INC: $12,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOAK CITY CARES INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOOKS FOR KEEPS INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $10,289 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGELLAN CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetNOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWADE EDWARDS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLifting Individuals and Families to Exce: $6,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPartners for Youth Opportunity: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUNG CANCER INITIATIVE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Research Triangle Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Research Triangle Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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