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TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC

TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY ASSOCIATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$517k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$6k
Grants received
$4.8M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

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 ($204k) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 201 ($411k) Expenses 130 ($80k) Net assets 111 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 178 ($363k) Expenses 178 ($110k) Net assets 121 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 142 ($291k) Expenses 116 ($72k) Net assets 134 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 261 ($533k) Expenses 142 ($87k) Net assets 164 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 214 ($438k) Expenses 120 ($74k) Net assets 164 ($3.8M)2023 Revenue 204 ($417k) Expenses 558 ($344k) Net assets 173 ($4.0M)2024 Revenue 212 ($432k) Expenses 147 ($91k) Net assets 196 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 253 ($517k) Expenses 555 ($342k) Net assets 208 ($4.8M)
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Revenue (253)Expenses (555)Net assets (208)

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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$143k
17
$331k
18
$253k
19
$220k
20
$446k
21
$364k
22
$72k
23
$342k
24
$175k
25
4.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $5k.

Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Research Triangle Foundation of NC). These are real filings, and they are not money TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC raised.

From the IRS filings of TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES 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.

How concentrated its funding is

TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

83% 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 UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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

17
18
North Carolina out of state home

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.

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.

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 UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC

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

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 27%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Duke University · exempt
  • Nc State University · exempt
  • University of Nc at Chapel Hill · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES 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 UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC?
TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY ASSOCIATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,000 in grants to TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC.
Who is the largest funder of TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES INC?
INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRIANGLE UNIVERSITIES CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES 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 2funders 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