· Private foundation
Ketner Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k13 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| GRANTS-PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN CO | $5,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| GRANTS-DUKE UNIVERSITY LAW SC | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,500 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES CAROLINAS | $2,500 |
| ST JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| LEE STREET THEATRE | $1,500 |
| GRANTS-ROWAN-CABARRUS YMCA | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NOVANT HEALTH ROWAN | $1,000 |
| GRANTS-ROWAN ARTS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| GRANTS-NC TRANSPORTATION HIST | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $20k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCATAWBA COLLEGE3× · 2024–2026 · $45k · 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%
- PDPROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
- PIPARTNERS IN LEARNINGone grant, 2022 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
A theater for community theatrical groups, cultural, performance and other cultural or historical activities.
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…
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…
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
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.
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
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.
To provide monetary support to the rowan county public library.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds ROWAN ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NC TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POPS AT THE POST INC ↗
- Who funds LEE STREET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ketner Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ketner Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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