· Public charity
Triangle Education Foundation
To operate for the furtherance of education by making loans, grants or scholarships to worthy students, the providing and enhancement of educational programs, facilities, techniques and curricula, or otherwise manage funds and gifts to achieve these purposes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $965,451 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,222,561 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $257,110 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $278k
- $250k+1 grant · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS HOUSE LLC | $559,558 |
| TRIANGLE FRATERNITY | $186,948 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC | $91,079 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $47,242 |
| WISCONSIN TRIANGLE BUILDING CO | $42,563 |
| ROSE CHAPTER ALUMNI BOARD | $16,923 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $10,048 |
| MICHIGAN STATE | $5,867 |
| ARMOUR ALUMNI | $5,223 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 31% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
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
- ISIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue -11% · 50% of their budget
- TFTRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +10%
- IHILLINOIS HOUSE LLC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M
Funded once
- TFTRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL KANSAS CHAPTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +73%
- VVIRGINIAFIRSTone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Housing for college fraternity
College Fraternity
Chapter housing leased to members to provide an environment for study, sleep, hygiene, meals and fellowship, suitable for the development of men attending the institute for education.
To provide a college home environment for its active members in which fellowship and alumni guidance lead to wholesome mental, moral, physical, and spiritual growth.
Provide room and board to undergraduate members attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston area schools
To provide a home in the vicinity of the university of minnesota for fraternity members.
To maintain and grow the Phi Sigma Kappa chapter at RPI.
To promote and cultivate social interaction, education, training, and development of proper values and service to the community. the organization conducts this purpose by providing and maintaining a chapter house for the students of…
Preparing young men to be future leaders.
Fraternity organization providing meeting space chapter activities and lodging
Provided college scholarships to graduating high school seniors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Fraternity National Council and the most unlike its peers is Virginiafirst. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FRATERNITY MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Triangle Fraternity ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FRATERNITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL KANSAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIAFIRST ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Triangle Education 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.
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.