North Carolina · Nonprofit
AIA TRIANGLE
AIA TRIANGLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,850 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ($14,850). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $363k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $550k
What Aia Triangle does
Mission
Aia Triangle champions local architects and design professionals by advocating for our profession and promoting sustainable and inclusive design to strengthen our community
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Aia Triangle hosts an annual golf tournament which brings together architects and others in the design/build community for a day of community and fellowship. Profits from this annual event are used to provide scholarships for students attending the college of design - school of architecture at north carolina state university and for students in the architectural technology program at wake tech community college. In 2023, 10 students received scholarship assistance totaling $16,000.
Aia Triangle recognizes the value of design and the contributions our members make to the design and build communities at our annual membership meeting. Average attendance is 185 people.
The american institute of architects is the leading professional membership association for licensed architects, emerging professionals, and allied partners. The Aia Triangle section is the local voice of the architecture profession dedicated to serving 900+ members by expressing their commitment to excellence in design and improving the quality and livability of our built environment. The Aia Triangle section encompasses a ten county area, engaging members in wake, durham, orange, lee, chatham, franklin, warren, vance, granville, and person counties.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $428k to $502k (+17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of AIA TRIANGLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Linda Frenette
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of AIA TRIANGLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AIA TRIANGLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AIA TRIANGLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AIA TRIANGLE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AIA TRIANGLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AIA TRIANGLE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AIA TRIANGLE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AIA TRIANGLE?
- AIA TRIANGLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,850 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ($14,850). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AIA TRIANGLE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,850 in grants to AIA TRIANGLE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AIA TRIANGLE?
- THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS is the largest funder on record, with $14,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AIA TRIANGLE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing