North Carolina · Nonprofit
TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC
TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being The Forest At Duke Inc ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $538k
What Triangle Research Libraries Network Inc does
Mission
Triangle research libraries network (trln) is a collaborative organization of duke university, north carolina central university, north carolina state university, and the university of north carolina at chapel hill, the purpose of which is to marshal the financial, human, and information resources of their research libraries through cooperative efforts in order to create a rich and unparalleled knowledge environment that furthers the universities' teaching, research, learning, and service missions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Implementation and management of a shared library catalog and of resource-sharing software systems and activities. The shared library catalog allows any user at the four trln member libraries to search for and request materials held at all four trln member institutions.
$1,814,609 spent$1,540,399 earned by the program98% of program spendingMember institutions and trln all pay annually towards a courier van service that delivers library materials requested through the shared library catalog to member campuses.
$19,500 spent1% of program spendingTrln annual meeting. On july 29, 2024, trln held a meeting with 292 registrants. There was one keynote speaker, a leadership panel, and a variety of presentations and workshops across a range of topics focused on the themese of mentorship, library systems migration (alma implementation), interdisciplinary research, civic engagement and ai. A full schedule and more event information can be found at https://trln.org/event/2024-trln-annual-meeting.
$18,949 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,853,058.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $150k to $1.0M (+568%).
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.
25% of TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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
Lisa Croucher
Executive director thru 04/25
Board chair
Warwick A Arden
Chair
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.
From the IRS filings of TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC’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 TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC'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.
Against its field
TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC?
- TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being The Forest At Duke Inc ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC?
- The Forest At Duke Inc is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK 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.
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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 2020–2025), 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