How much did Triangle Community Foundation grant in FY2025?

Triangle Community Foundation reported 599 itemized grants totaling $26,683,150, out of $29,020,082 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is Triangle Community Foundation based?

Triangle Community Foundation is based in Durham, NC.

Triangle Community Foundation

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Durham, NC · Community foundation

Triangle Community Foundation

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$29M

Granted FY2025still arriving

599

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.4M

Largest

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 FY2017–2025.

Education$53MEnvironment$25MPhilanthropy$24MReligion$20MHealth$18MArts & Culture$16MHuman Services$14MHousing & Shelter$10MOther$0

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2025 · 599 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 599 grants below total $26,683,150 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,020,082 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,336,932 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.

Grant-size mix · FY2015–FY2023

FY15

34%

38%

25%

$18.7M

FY16

24%

32%

41%

$24.7M

FY17

28%

23%

44%

$23.2M

FY18

28%

29%

39%

$23.9M

FY19

25%

35%

$24.4M

FY20

31%

41%

21%

$22.5M

FY21

23%

30%

44%

$30.1M

FY22

27%

39%

31%

$25.5M

FY23

27%

45%

24%

$23.4M

Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2015, 25% of your dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2023 that was 24%. Each year’s bar is its own 100%, so the bands show the mix, not the total.

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$336M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST	$1,393,677
UNC CHAPEL HILL OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT	$1,331,012
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA	$650,186
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF WINSTON SALEM	$540,000
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY	$516,401
DUKE UNIVERSITY	$383,768
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC	$346,780
ENO RIVER UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP	$337,500
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION	$330,500
MEREDITH COLLEGE	$311,632
YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA	$269,413
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC (DBA DAFGIVING360)	$261,903
PERSPECTIVES CHARTER SCHOOLS	$258,000
LATINXED	$250,000
DURHAM ACADEMY	$229,500

02The need

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 (FY16–24, $11.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

The hardship those neighborhoods carry, beyond income:

Adults without health insurance:reaches 26.8% in some neighborhoods (typically 9.3%)(CDC, modeled)
Food access:8 of 60 neighborhoods are USDA-designated food deserts(USDA, 2019)

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.

03Your edge

The orgs you fund vs the ones you don’t

You back the full breadth of your community — and the organisations you fund hold up better than the rest.

As a community foundation you fund inclusively across the local sector — established institutions and scrappy new efforts alike — which is the mission, not a hedge. Even so, the organisations you back are less fragile than comparable nonprofits nearby that you don't fund.

The kind of organization you back

60% of the organizations you back live mainly on donations, against 43% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don’t fund. 33% of the ones you pick are financially resilient, against 22% of that field, and fewer show the warning signs below.

What they work on

Arts & Culture10% vs 7%

How they hold up

Lean on a single income source43% vs 51%

you fund (131) you don’t (334)· share of each group

You fund (131)You don’t (334)

Median size (revenue)$1.4M$400k

Operating margin6%4%

Financially fragile66%75%

Comparison vs unfunded, size/cause-matched nonprofits in your county. Association, not proof — the funder enables, it does not solely cause.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$188M · 926 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

926 repeat relationships — 468 still active in FY2025, 458 since wound down; 104 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

Of your 927 multi-year relationships, 188 repeat the same amount every year (6% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment. The rest vary year to year. Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; this is inferred from the payment pattern.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

926

543

Total granted

$188M

$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+14%

Still filing today

82%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
5× · 2017–2021 · $5.6M · revenue +123%
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +528%
DUKE UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $3.9M · revenue +51%

Funded once

TU
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $432k · revenue -58%
AD
ALPHA DELTA FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $391k · revenue -89% · 57% of their budget
BS
BAPTIST STATE CENVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA
one grant, 2022 · $305k

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

Activities, outputs, outcomes

Most can say what their work is for. Few can show it changed. Click an area to step through it.

Of 49 organizations, 7 show a change. The rest report what they did, or only what they hope it’s for.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

Read from 49 of the 423 organizations you fund across these 5 areas— those you fund most heavily — in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

One relationship, up close

One you funded repeatedly, traced through its own filings and the public record.

North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the D

Conviction

Sustained bet on expanding advocacy

Triangle Community Foundation has partnered with the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty five times between 2020 and 2024, contributing $80,000 and representing as much as 82% of their budget at peak. Alongside that sustained support, the coalition's revenue has grown 1,269% since the first grant at a 20% CAGR — a period that saw landmark advocacy including the Commutations Campaign and extensive statewide educational programming with students, faith communities, and families on both sides of the death penalty. Recurring deficits and shrinking net assets signal that the coalition's expanding mission continues to outpace funding diversification, making continued partnership especially meaningful.

6× · 2020–2025

Funded

$95k

You committed

82%

Peak share of budget

×14

Their revenue since

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source, not a return on these grants: we date what happened after a grant, and do not claim the grant caused it.

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.

North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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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

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech

Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education

North Carolina Bar Association

The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…

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North Carolina Council On Economic Education Inc

The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…

Social Science

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

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Inc

Our mission is to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for all north carolinians. we do this by collaborating with state, regional, local, and private-sector partners in new business recruitment, existing employer support,…

Community Improvement

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

Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina and the most unlike its peers is Recovery Communities of North Carolina 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.

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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%20/1,544

the rest of the field

15%

7,944/51,636

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.

05the grantee network

1310 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. 1310 of the 1,626 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

360

Early backer (in before they grew)

1266/1310

Grantees still filing

889/1310

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$69,745,749Education$31,354,746Philanthropy$18,614,551Environment$17,091,180Human Services$10,601,373Health$6,690,478Arts & Culture$5,448,242

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

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.

56 internal · 3 shared anchors

Your portfolio is already a network

Coalition member working together to end the death penalty and reform the criminal justice system in North Carolina. It’s one of 56 direct ties among 88 of your grantees, who also cluster around 3 shared regional anchors.

Ties are read from news and organization websites, so they’re directional, not exhaustive; each links to its source.

Grantees connected

Grantee↔grantee ties

Shared anchors (2+ grantees)

152

External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations — shared anchors pull toward the center

min. connectionstheme37 shown · 20 ties

grantee you fund external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations — or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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explicit Coalition
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explicit Coalition
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explicit Joint program
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explicit Coalition
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explicit Joint program

Anchors several grantees share

6 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees

Joint program 98Affiliation 55Coalition 33Funding 15Referral network 4Shared facility 2Merger / affiliation 1Collaboration 1

Partnerships are LLM-extracted from news and organisation websites, not from tax filings — directional, not exhaustive. Each edge links to its source; corroborated edges were named independently by both organisations.

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.

United Way of the Greater Triangle IncNC209.5× affinity151 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke University · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Strowd Roses Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · John Rex Endowment

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 Triangle Community Foundation 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 moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

71report 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines