North Carolina · Nonprofit
TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION
TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,104 to it, the largest being THE MERICOS FOUNDATION ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $677k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $204k
- Net assets
- $137k
What Triangle Flying Disc Association does
Mission
To collaboratively build a community that emphasizes accessability, relationships, and engagement through learning, playing, and teaching the sport of Ultimate in the Triangle region of North Carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Summer Camps: Triangle Ultimate (TU) partnered with local professional ultimate teams, the Flyers and Radiance, to offer a one-week overnight camp branded as Carolina Ultimate Flight School. An elite coaching team served 64 Flight School Campers in the summer of 2025. TU also continued our collaboration with longtime partners, including Chapel Hill P&R, Carrboro P&R, Carolina Friends School, Orange Co, and Durham Academy to offer quality, affordable, local camps across the Triangle. We served 459 youth players this past summer through our recreational day camp programs.
$112,203 spent$135,258 earned by the program18% of program spendingJuniors and Youth Club programs (non-school based) Our competitive Summer Youth Club Championship (YCC) season served 163 youth across six teams. All teams attended the Southeast Showdown Tournament to compete regionally. Four elite teams also travelled to compete in USAUs Youth Club Championships in Aurora, CO. Triangle Ultimate has sent teams to the USAU YCC event every year since 2009.
$86,036 spent$185,943 earned by the program14% of program spendingSchool-Based programs: Triangle Ultimate continues to expand accessable playing opportunities through our school-based programs across the Triangle area. We operate the regions largest school ultimate leagues, serving 423 high school players across 29 teams in the fall, and 393 middle school players across 27 teams in the winter. These programs use our Pay-What-You-Can model, ensuring that financial accessibility is never a barrier to participation. We build and support programs at local schools where kids are, and compensate our coaches for their time to help grow the sport in an equitable way.
$42,471 spent$94,884 earned by the program7% of program spendingCombined program revenues and expenses from ~30 other ultimate programs
$379,006 spent$174,347 earned by the program61% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $619,716.
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 2021 to 2022, from $192k to $331k (+72%).
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% · 2021 11% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Lauren Fayn
Exec director
Board chair
Aaron Baer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $65k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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
TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 65% · 2019 73% · 2020 98% · 2021 88% · 2022 92% · 2023 54% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION
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.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION?
- TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $204,104 to it, the largest being THE MERICOS FOUNDATION ($75,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $204,104 in grants to TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION?
- THE MERICOS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRIANGLE FLYING DISC ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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