North Carolina · Nonprofit
RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP
RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being DUKE UNIVERSITY ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $439k
What Research Triangle Regional Partnership does
Mission
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 providing support to and facilitating collaboration among its member institutions and a wide range of partners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Research Triangle Regional Partnership (rtrp) leads economic development for the research triangle region of north carolina. Rtrp works to generate competitive advantage and economic growth for member counties and investors. Member counties include: chatham, durham, franklin, granville, harnett, johnston, lee, nash, orange, person, vanke, wake, warren and wilson.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $605k to $444k (−27%).
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: 2024 8% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Ryan Combs
Executive director
Board chair
Chris Bell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $773k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce Community Development Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP raised.
From the IRS filings of RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP’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.
Where its funders are
100% of RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
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.
Government funding RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$60k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP
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
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Research Triangle Retional Partnership Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: 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 RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP?
- RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being DUKE UNIVERSITY ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP.
- Who is the largest funder of RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP?
- DUKE UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESEARCH TRIANGLE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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