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Triad Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16M
Granted FY2022
479
Grants FY2022
32
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$9.9MArts & Culture$2.4MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$2.0MAnimals$1.6MScience & Tech$1.5MYouth Development$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.2MOther$0
02FY2022 · 479 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 479 grants below total $12,813,223 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,123,223 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,310,000 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k155 grants · $632k
  • $10k–50k259 grants · $4.7M
  • $50k–250k57 grants · $4.7M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.7M
$10,000
Median grant
32
States reached
$375M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Hussman School of Journalism and Media$600,000
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc.$400,000
CharMeck Family Justice Center, Inc$350,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Hussman School of Journalism and Media$300,000
Frameworks of Tampa Bay, Inc.$277,500
Cornell University/Johnson Graduate School of Management$272,500
Cornell University/Johnson Graduate School of Management$272,500
Cornell University/Johnson Graduate School of Management$272,500
Humane Society of Charlotte, Inc.$200,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/College of Arts and Sciences$200,000
Charlotte Country Day School$150,000
Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Inc.$150,000
American Enterprise Institute$150,000
Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, Inc.$150,000
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department$144,000
02Your 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 270 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

270 repeat relationships — 263 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

270
118

Total granted

$24M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+25%

Still filing today

84%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPublic BenefitOther

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

  • BT
    BOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
  • FO
    FRAMEWORKS OF TAMPA BAY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +2% · 38% of their budget
  • TM
    TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $513k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • TE
    THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $203k · revenue +56%
  • Queens University of Charlotte
    one grant, 2019 · $175k · revenue -5%
  • IP
    IDEA Public Schoolsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +44%

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

03Your 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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
3
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Center for American Progress

The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…

Civil Rights
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
12
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Accountability Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hubbard Rodeo Association. 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 backsteadyCharter and Independent Sch…Education Equity InitiativesCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Advocacy and …Veteran Support ServicesClassical Music OrchestrasCollege Foundation SupportFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Early Childhood Care CentersAddiction & Mental Health T…Senior Support ServicesFood Pantries and AssistanceWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Developmental Disabilities …Volunteer Fire & RescueChristian Outreach Ministri…Community Literacy TutoringProfessional Dance CompaniesHospice and Palliative CarePublic Library SupportFaith-Based Senior LivingGirls Stem Education Progra…Affordable Housing Construc…Civil Legal ServicesUrban Agriculture EducationYouth Development CentersDomestic Violence and Sexua…Christian Youth CampsLocal History MuseumsGovernment Accountability &…Community Hospital SystemsCommunity Theater CompaniesCommunity Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsChildhood Cancer SupportUnited Way AffiliatesYmca Community CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%6/409
the rest of the field
10%
11,855/120,351

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.

03the grantee network

385 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. 385 of the 483 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
86
Early backer (in before they grew)
377/385
Grantees still filing
273/385
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Hussman School of Journalism and Media — $2,841,000 · OtherUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Hussman School of Jour…Cornell University/Johnson Graduate School of Management — $1,937,426 · OtherCornell University/Johnson Graduate School of ManagementUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $585,813 · OtherFRAMEWORKS OF TAMPA BAY INC — $1,070,409 · OtherFRAMEWORKS OF TAMPA BAY INC+103 more — $8,691,554 · Other+103 moreCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $490,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUN…ACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA INC — $352,487 · EducationACADEMY PREP C…FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $250,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR…Emergent Order Foundation Inc — $200,000 · EducationEmergent Order…Queens University of Charlotte — $175,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $161,000 · EducationIDEA Public Schools — $125,000 · EducationTHE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationConservative Partnership Institute — $112,500 · Education+22 more — $1,247,660 · Education+22 moreSOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC — $313,707 · Arts & CultureFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Arts & CultureMainspring Narrative Films Inc — $125,000 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER — $96,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCENTER DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $80,500 · Arts & CultureOPUS ITHACA SCHOOL OF MUSIC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR CULTURAL REVIEW — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $53,400 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $323,216 · Arts & CultureBOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC — $1,441,150 · Science & TechTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $513,400 · Human ServicesFAMILY FIRST INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INC — $108,000 · Human ServicesCLOTHES TO KIDS INC — $64,520 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN- TAMPA BAY INC — $51,000 · Human ServicesPAWS4PEOPLE INC — $51,000 · Human ServicesFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc — $50,000 · Human Services+6 more — $192,467 · Human ServicesPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $420,000 · HealthCAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $250,600 · HealthARISE ALLIANCE INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 · HealthCancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes — $110,000 · HealthCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $61,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $53,500 · HealthANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Health+7 more — $217,500 · HealthHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $462,904 · AnimalsLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — $235,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK INC — $145,000 · AnimalsHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc — $140,500 · AnimalsWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary — $85,000 · AnimalsTHE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY — $60,000 · AnimalsMercy Full Project Inc — $45,726 · Animals+4 more — $125,000 · Animals
Other$15,126,202Education$3,363,647Arts & Culture$1,576,823Science & Tech$1,441,150Human Services$1,435,387Health$1,412,600Animals$1,299,130

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBOYCE THOMPSON INSTITUTE FOR PLANT RESEARCH INC — $1,441,150 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetFRAMEWORKS OF TAMPA BAY INC — $1,070,409 over 2y, 38% of budgetTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $513,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $502,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC — $494,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $490,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $462,904 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $420,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSTARTING RIGHT NOW — $357,890 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetACADEMY PREP CENTER OF TAMPA INC — $352,487 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance — $350,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetSOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS INC — $313,707 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $255,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAYUGA MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $250,600 over 3y, 30% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc — $235,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC — $206,200 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $203,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC — $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFAMILY FIRST INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetEmergent Order Foundation Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTOMPKINS CORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $178,825 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte — $175,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $161,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $160,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARISE ALLIANCE INSTITUTE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK INC — $145,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHumane Society of Tampa Bay Inc — $140,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS — $140,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIDEA Public Schools — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMainspring Narrative Films Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetTHE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute — $112,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes — $110,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY — $110,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC — $108,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC — $103,400 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ITHACA AND TOMPKINS COUNTY — $100,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMPIONS FOR CHILDREN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Community Foundation …Legacy Foundation of …Donors Trust IncSarah Scaife Foundati…Park Foundation IncTompkins Charitable G…Vinik Family Foundati…Bradley Impact Fund I…JM McDonald Foundatio…Debartolo Family Foun…The Lynde and Harry B…The Dunn Foundation
Community Foundation of Tompkins County IncNY81.2× affinity41 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Donors Trust Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Park Foundation Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · Vinik Family Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · The Dunn 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.

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 483 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $15M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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