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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.
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.
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.
- Duke University Health System Incshared funders
- Pga Foundation Incportfolio match
- Durham Sports Commissionportfolio match
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.
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Duke University Health System Incshared fundersNC · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Pga Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Durham Sports Commissionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ncga Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Junior Golf Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation D/B/A Wyndham Championshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joseph M Bryan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Greater Triangle Incshared fundersNC · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- John William Pope Foundationshared fundersNC · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Duke Universityshared fundersNC · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Incshared fundersNC · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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.
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