The Triad Foundation is an American nonprofit foundation formed in 2003 as a spin-off of the Park Foundation. The triad in the newer foundation's title refers to Park Jr. and his children Roy Park III and Elizabeth Park Fowler. The foundation's endowment comes from the estate of entrepreneur and media mogul

Roy H. Park Roy Hampton Park (15 September 1910 – 25 October 1993) was an American media executive and entrepreneur. He is known for creating the Duncan Hines brand of packaged food products, and for his television/radio/newspaper conglomerate, Park Commun ...

. The foundation supports a series of Roy H. Park Fellowships at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and at

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which r ...

's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It is based in

Ithaca, New York Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York (state), New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County, New York, Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca m ...

and is chaired by Park's son, Roy H. Park, Jr. At the end of 2013, the foundation reported having $291 million in assets.

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