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· 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$560k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$5.3M
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $965,451, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,222,561 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $257,110 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $278k
  • $250k+1 grant · $560k
$42,563
Median grant
5
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 31% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UCLA HOUSE: $42k → 14%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $1.0M → 5%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $170k → 17%TBHC MICHIGAN HOUSE: $162k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE: $6k → 16%KANSAS CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE: $6k → 15%WISCONSIN TRIANGLE BUILDING CO: $43k → 10%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $47k → 17%ILLINOIS HOUSE LLC: $510k → 5%ROSE CHAPTER ALUMNI BOARD: $17k → 19%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%ARMOUR ALUMNI: $6k → 14%ILLINOIS HOUSE LLC: $560k → 19%FIRST CHESAPEAKE DBA VIRGINIA FIRST: $5k → 9%UCLA HOUSE: $12k → 14%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $192k → 5%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $120k → 17%MICHIGAN CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE: $7k → 14%WISCONSIN TRIANGLE BUILDING CO: $9k → 10%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $23k → 17%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $272k → 5%ARMOUR ALUMNI: $5k → 14%ILLINOIS HOUSE LLC: $234k → 19%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $117k → 17%WISCONSIN TRIANGLE BUILDING CO: $6k → 10%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $19k → 17%ILLINOIS HOUSE LLC: $261k → 5%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $91k → 17%MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $252k → 5%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $9k → 17%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $204k → 5%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $187k → 5%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $181k → 5%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $154k → 5%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $151k → 5%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $128k → 5%TRIANGLE FRATERNITY: $84k → 5%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

IL
WI
MI
IA
IN
CA
VA
KS
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 8 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$5.3M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+73%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

  • IS
    IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.7M · revenue -11% · 50% of their budget
  • TF
    TRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +10%
  • IH
    ILLINOIS HOUSE LLC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.6M

Funded once

  • TF
    TRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL KANSAS CHAPTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +73%
  • V
    VIRGINIAFIRST
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +23%
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
Phi Kappa Psi - Oregon Alpha Chapter S&T Fraternity Management

Housing for college fraternity

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2
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity - Ohio Delta Chapter

College Fraternity

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3
Georgia Tech Chapter of Delta Chi Fraternity Housing Corporation

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.

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4
Theta Xi Fraternity

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.

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5
Twin City Alumni of Alpha Chi Sigma

To provide a home in the vicinity of the university of minnesota for fraternity members.

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6
Phi Sigma Kappa

To maintain and grow the Phi Sigma Kappa chapter at RPI.

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7
Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Gamma Gamma Chapter Rose Hulman

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…

Education
8
Delta Tau Delta Beta Delta Chapter

Preparing young men to be future leaders.

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9
The Triangle Fund
Philanthropy
10
Phi Delta Theta Alumni Associa

Fraternity organization providing meeting space chapter activities and lodging

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11
Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity Missouri

Collegiate social fraternity at the University of Missouri who attracts members who have demonstrated strength and achievement in character, academics, leadership, and services to others.

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12
Triangle East Chapter 100 Black Men of America Inc

Provided college scholarships to graduating high school seniors.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Fraternity National Council; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $1,698,382 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INCTRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCIL: $1,612,214 · OtherTRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCILILLINOIS HOUSE LLC: $1,564,624 · OtherILLINOIS HOUSE LLC+8 more: $371,556 · Other+8 moreTRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCIL: $57,143 · EducationVIRGINIAFIRST: $5,000 · Education
Other$5,246,776Education$62,143

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF TRIANGLE INC: $1,698,382 over 7y, 50% of budgetTRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCIL: $1,612,214 over 9y, 23% of budgetTRIANGLE FRATERNITY MICHIGAN: $169,131 over 2y, 41% of budgetTRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL COUNCIL: $57,143 over 3y, 34% of budgetTRIANGLE FRATERNITY NATIONAL KANSAS CHAPTER: $5,928 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetVIRGINIAFIRST: $5,000 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.

  • 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 13 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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