North Carolina · Nonprofit
Athena of the Triangle Inc
Athena of the Triangle Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,079 to it, the largest being Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Athena of the Triangle Inc does
Mission
ATHENA of the Triangle develops, honors, and supports established and emerging women leaders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Awards Reception & Luncheon: ATHENA of the Triangle hosted 300 attendees at their annual ATHENA Awards Reception and Luncheon where the organization honored local leaders for their professional excellence, community service, and for actively assisting women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills.
$8,750 spent17% of program spendingThe ATHENA in STEM program focuses on building the pipeline of young women in STEM related fields. ATHENA of the Triangle partners with The Wake Young Women's Leadership Academy to provide a continuous leadership and mentoring programming from eighth through tenth grade students to expose them to STEM related career opportunities and outings.
$30,404 spent58% of program spendingATHENA Leadership Conference: ATHENA of the Triangle hosted its 4th Annual ATHENA Leadership Conference in partnership with SAS. This full-day conference was structured around theme, People, Purpose, Passion and utilized the ATHENA Leadership Model with breakout sessions, workshops, and networking. The sessions addressed leadership challenges faced by women business owners, professionals, and male allies.
$8,807 spent17% of program spendingATHENA Enlightened Leaders: This leadership development program is a series of highly interactive workshops each focused on an ATHENA Leadership Principle. The program is open to any woman, whether early in her career or who already has some leadership experience, who wants to improve her leadership skills while supporting a network of like-minded leaders.
$4,160 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $52,121.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $98k to $69k (−29%).
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.
79% of Athena of the Triangle Inc’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. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dr Atoya Hodges
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $20k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Athena of the Triangle Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
Athena of the Triangle Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 Athena of the Triangle Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 85% · 2023 75% — diversifying over time.
“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
Athena of the Triangle Inc draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
Athena of the Triangle Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Athena of the Triangle Inc
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.
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Athena of the Triangle Inc?
- Athena of the Triangle Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,079 to it, the largest being Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Athena of the Triangle Inc have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $98,079 in grants to Athena of the Triangle Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Athena of the Triangle Inc?
- Merck Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Athena of the Triangle Inc 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 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