· Private foundation
The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of THE CLAUDE S JR AND RAENELLE ABERNE TESTAMENTARY CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORS NETWORK | $40,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| THE GREEN ROOM | $32,000 |
| LINC | $27,500 |
| JOHN'S RIVER VALLEY CAMP | $17,000 |
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FDN | $10,000 |
| CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS | $9,000 |
| CORINTH REFORMED CHURCH | $9,000 |
| CATAWBA VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $6,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SOLDIERS REUNION | $5,000 |
| HICKORY MUSIC FACTORY | $5,000 |
| CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +30% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- NNNEIGHBORS NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $349k · revenue +218% · 31% of their budget
- LILINC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +169%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TTTRAIN THEM UP CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
- HMHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -10%
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.
To provide cultural enrichment on hilton head island and enable residents and visitors to have access to cultural activities.
The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…
A liberal arts college founded in 1849 and associated with the united methodist church, providing quality education for all students in an atomosphere that promotes intellectual pursuit, spiritual growth and personal responsibility.
Sharing and preserving the history of woodstock vt through inspiring educational experiences and dynamic collections
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Operation of a north carolina public charter school
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Culture and heritage commission (cmh) is a family of museums in york county, sc, which includes historic brattonsville, the mccelvey center, the museum of york county and the main street children's museum in old town rock hill. its vision…
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…
To provide high quality venues and performing arts for the Highlands - Cashiers community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hickory Music Factory Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 47 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 NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LINC INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Downtown Newton Development Association ↗
- Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSIC FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds NEWTON DEPOT AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Harp Society Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE WORLD GIFTS INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
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: George Foundation Inc · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · Underdown Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Harold and Margaret Deal Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Arts Council of Catawba County Inc
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 The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust 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.