How much does The Triangle Fund give?

The Triangle Fund reported 31 grants totaling $350,157 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Triangle Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Youth Development (25%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are The Triangle Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hornell Area Concern for Youth Inc ($221k), Pro Action of Steuben and Yates Inc ($221k), Family Service Society Inc ($146k).

Does The Triangle Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Triangle Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is The Triangle Fund based?

The Triangle Fund is based in NY.

The Triangle Fund

The Triangle Fund at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Triangle Fund

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Triangle Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc, United Way of the Southern Tier Inc, Corning Incorporated Foundation.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$350k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$35k

Largest

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.

Human Services$804kYouth Development$555kArts & Culture$235kEducation$182kPhilanthropy$105kEnvironment$75kEmployment$54kAnimals$52kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $63k
$10k–50k18 grants · $287k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PROACTION OF STEUBEN AND YATES INC	$35,360
HORNELL AREA CONCERN FOR YOUTH INC	$32,825
HORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOUCE CENTER	$19,500
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER	$17,790
CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS	$16,000
FRIENDS OF ADDISON YOUTH CENTER INC	$15,600
YWCA OF ELMIRA AND THE TWIN TIERS	$15,500
SALVATION ARMY CORNING	$15,300
FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC	$15,300
Bradford Central School District	$13,800
NONNIE HOOD PARENT RESOURCE CENTER	$13,532
ROCKWELL MUSEUM OF ART	$12,000
TANGLEWOOD NATURE CENTER AND MUSEUM	$12,000
CORNING PRIDE	$11,500
Neighborhood Transformation Center	$11,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $622k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 36 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+5%

Still filing today

56%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

PA
PRO ACTION OF STEUBEN AND YATES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $221k · revenue +73%
FS
Family Service Society Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $146k · revenue +20%
HF
HORSEHEADS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +73%

Funded once

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE ELMIRA CORNING AREA
one grant, 2020 · $100k
WG
WATKINS GLEN SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2017 · $5k
UW
UNITED WAY OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +5%

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.

Suny Cortland Child Care Center Inc

The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…

Human Services

Cortland County Child Development - Day Care Program Inc

To provide daycare and child development services to residents of Cortland County

Human Services

Child Care Council of Dutchess and Putnam Inc

To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.

Human Services

Coshocton County Head Start Inc

Cchs is a comprehensive family and child development program committed to providing quality services that support and nurture the families we serve. our work connects through our community as we prepare our families and children for a…

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Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services

The Children's Ctr At Suny Morrisville State College Inc

The center's mission is to provide quality childcare services to the morrisville state college campus and the local community in a safe and nurturing environment which promotes the social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive…

Unclassified

Ithaca Community Childcare Center Inc

Committed to providing families with the highest standard of child-inspired, professionally-nurtured care and opportunities for learning.

Human Services

Cobleskill Campus Child Care Center Inc

To provide quality child care services for suny cobleskill employees and the public at large.

Human Services

Central Adirondack Partnership for the 21ST Century Inc

Forum for community concerns

Community Improvement

Community Child Care Center of the Third Ward Inc

Provide a safe, caring, and dynamic environment to help nurture the development of pre-school aged children.

Human Services

State University College At Oneonta Childrens Center Inc

Licensed daycare faciltiy. serving suny oneonta employees, students and the surrounding communities.

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Country Childrens Center Inc

To provide quality day care on a year round basis for children of working families.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services of Chemung County Inc; the most unlike its peers is True Christianity 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

28 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. 28 of the 59 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

18/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,116,166Human Services$621,736Youth Development$243,965Environment$75,252Arts & Culture$51,585Health$44,000Education$33,650

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

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.

Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes IncNY55.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes Inc · United Way of the Southern Tier Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Anderson Foundation Inc · Tioga Downs Regional Community Foundation Inc · Douglas G Anderson Leigh R Evans Foundation · The Hilliard Foundation Inc · The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc · Bobbie and John G Ullman Family Foundation Inc · Meadows Charitable Trust · ROTARY INTERNATIONAL Rotary Club of Corning NY · Meier Family 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 The Triangle Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Triangle Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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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.

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