North Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,746,013 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $-434823
What United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc does
Mission
To eradicate poverty and to increase social mobility through the power of partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community investment - funds allocated for distribution to various agencies and programs based on need and other criteria deemed appropriate by the board of directors.please visit www.unitedwaytriangle.org for more information about funded partners and the results and impact of our work together.
$5,071,943 spentof which $5,071,943 as grants62% of program spendingCommunity impact - funds raised and designated for other non-profits in the community, examining needs in each county and determining how organization resources can be maximized to achieve measurable results.
$2,965,943 spentof which $1,446,137 as grants$146,308 earned by the program36% of program spendingDirect services - activities that deliver services funded by other sources other than the annual campaign. United way 2-1-1: a community human services information and referral service which links individuals in need of services to those available services in the community.
$182,134 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,220,020.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $6.8M to $11M (+60%).
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 3% · 2021 0% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Eric Guckian
CEO
Board chair
Joan Nelson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $2.4M.
17 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.7M from 20 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
57% 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 UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 50% · 2019 29% · 2020 18% · 2021 11% · 2022 29% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC's funding base is broadening — from 16 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE 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 UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,746,013 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $16,746,013 in grants to UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 85 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