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TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE

TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,086,383 to it, the largest being TOWNEBANK FOUNDATION ($600,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.9M
Revenue FY2024
54
Funders on record
$3.1M
Grants received
$8.8M
Net assets
29/54 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE has grown faster than half of the 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($822k) Expenses 100 ($604k) Net assets 100 ($782k)2018 Revenue 112 ($920k) Expenses 119 ($717k) Net assets 123 ($961k)2019 Revenue 433 ($3.6M) Expenses 139 ($840k) Net assets 474 ($3.7M)2020 Revenue 130 ($1.1M) Expenses 157 ($950k) Net assets 490 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 383 ($3.1M) Expenses 203 ($1.2M) Net assets 736 ($5.8M)2022 Revenue 281 ($2.3M) Expenses 271 ($1.6M) Net assets 820 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 288 ($2.4M) Expenses 255 ($1.5M) Net assets 943 ($7.4M)2024 Revenue 237 ($1.9M) Expenses 353 ($2.1M) Net assets 1124 ($8.8M)
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Revenue (237)Expenses (353)Net assets (1124)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$218k
17
$203k
18
$2.7M
19
$118k
20
$1.9M
21
$668k
22
$832k
23
$188k
24
3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $87k → $454k.

16 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)39% 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 GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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 GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

62% 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 GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE.

19%
largest funder
40%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 82% · 2019 36% · 2020 31% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 22%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

32% of TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 12 states in all.

WI
NY
MA
NV
PA
CA
VA
MD
DE
NC
TX
FL

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. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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 54 funders put you typical 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.

Organizations like TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 9%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

80%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE 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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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 GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE?
TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE (North Carolina) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,086,383 to it, the largest being TOWNEBANK FOUNDATION ($600,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE have?
IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $3,086,383 in grants to TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRIANGLE?
TOWNEBANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRIANGLE GOLF FOUNDATION INC DBA THE FIRST TEE OF THE 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 54funders 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