· Private foundation
Ketner Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN CO | $5,000 |
| PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES CAROLINAS | $2,500 |
| LEE STREET THEATRE | $1,500 |
| ROWAN CABARRUS YMCA | $1,500 |
| NOVANT HEALTH ROWAN | $1,000 |
| N C TRANSPORTATION MUSEM | $1,000 |
| ROWAN ARTS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF NC | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCATAWBA COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +159%
- LCLivingstone College7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +87%
- RAROWAN ARTS COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- BTBELL TOWER GREEN INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -83%
- PIPARTNERS IN LEARNINGone grant, 2022 · $3k
- SCSALISBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
Promote the industrial, commercial, agricultural, economic, civic and social welfare of the people of salisbury and rowan county north carolina
Promoting, enhancing and managing the development of the commercial, business, economic, residential, civic, and historical development of downtown salisbury, north carolina.
Salisbury-rowan community action agency is committed to providing education, child care, and other services to the underprivileged residents of salisbury, north carolina and two surrounding counties.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
A theater for community theatrical groups, cultural, performance and other cultural or historical activities.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Collect, preserve, research, exhibit, and educate the public about the history of rowan county and piedmont north carolina through the use of its properties, programs and collections.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
The carolinas gateway partnership is dedicated to the creation of community wealth through the retention, creation, and expansion of business opportunities in tarboro, rocky mount, and edgecombe county, north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Lee Street Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NC TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds POPS AT THE POST INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LEE STREET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOLE HOPE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Hurley-Trammell Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Bernheim Foundation Inc · Brady Foundation · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ketner Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.