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TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,244,620 to it, the largest being TCF REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION INC ($4,850,574). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year. TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$43M
Revenue FY2025
42
Funders on record
$15M
Grants received
$317M
Net assets
19/42 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programTRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$224M

Recipients

1,544

Contributions on record

$16M

Donors on record

48

Payments out run 13.9x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($33M) Expenses 100 ($29M) Net assets 100 ($206M)2018 Revenue 136 ($46M) Expenses 101 ($29M) Net assets 110 ($226M)2019 Revenue 69 ($23M) Expenses 100 ($29M) Net assets 107 ($221M)2020 Revenue 122 ($41M) Expenses 112 ($33M) Net assets 110 ($226M)2021 Revenue 85 ($28M) Expenses 91 ($27M) Net assets 137 ($282M)2022 Revenue 163 ($54M) Expenses 121 ($35M) Net assets 123 ($252M)2023 Revenue 91 ($30M) Expenses 108 ($32M) Net assets 128 ($263M)2024 Revenue 136 ($45M) Expenses 104 ($30M) Net assets 143 ($293M)2025 Revenue 128 ($43M) Expenses 117 ($34M) Net assets 154 ($317M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (128)Expenses (117)Net assets (154)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.1M
’17
$16M
’18
−$6.1M
’19
$8.0M
’20
$1.5M
’21
$19M
’22
−$1.4M
’23
$15M
’24
$8.5M
’25
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 16 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $3.3M → $2.4M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Aj Fletcher Foundationunclassified
$100k
Duke Universityunclassified
$77k
funders
16
3
9
14
14
13
11
7
4

14 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $871k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc); $37k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Micah 68 Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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.

Where its funders are

55% of TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

VT
WA
IL
MA
NV
NJ
DE
AR
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 42 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

66%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Durham Arts Council Endowment Fund · exempt
  • Tcf Real Estate Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,244,620 to it, the largest being TCF REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION INC ($4,850,574). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year. TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $15,244,620 in grants to TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
TCF REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,850,574 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

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 42funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing