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The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$273k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$52,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 25
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$273k4%
FY202425$241k4%
FY202324$271k21%
FY202222$298k9%
FY202122$287k18%
FY202021$242k24%
FY201919$265k11%
FY201823$286k22%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$451kReligion$446kHuman Services$419kCrime & Legal$168kArts & Culture$157kRecreation & Sports$139kEnvironment$123kHealth$77kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Neighbors Network Inc$389,418931%
Linc Inc$185,50091%
Wake Forest University$147,50090%
Classroom Connections$146,500940%
Catawba College$114,00090%
Young Life$57,50090%
Downtown Newton Development Association$44,50082%
University Christian High School$32,00030%
Hart Square Foundation Inc$25,50032%
Hickory Music Factory Inc$25,00054%
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All grantees of The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Neighbors Network Inc$389,418931%
Linc Inc$185,50091%
Wake Forest University$147,50090%
Classroom Connections$146,500940%
Catawba College$114,00090%
Young Life$57,50090%
Downtown Newton Development Association$44,50082%
University Christian High School$32,00030%
Hart Square Foundation Inc$25,50032%
Hickory Music Factory Inc$25,00054%
Newton Depot Authority$23,80063%
Carolina Thread Trail$21,00081%
Western Piedmont Symphony Inc$16,50041%
Soldiers Reunion Inc$16,0003n/a
Hickory Museum of Art Inc$10,00011%
Hickory Landmarks Society Inc$6,50032%
Asheville School Inc$6,00010%
Pregnancy Care Center Inc$5,30022%
American Harp Society Inc$5,0001n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Catawba Valley Inc$4,00010%
Unique World Gifts Inc$4,00024%
Piedmont Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 420$3,50030%
Adventures in Missions Inc$1,0001n/a
The Corner Table Inc$70020%
Adult Life Programs Inc$50010%
United Arts Council of Catawba County Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNeighbors Network Inc: $389,418 over 9y, 31% of budgetLinc Inc: $185,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetWake Forest University: $147,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetClassroom Connections: $146,500 over 9y, 40% of budgetCatawba College: $114,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life: $57,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDowntown Newton Development Association: $44,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity Christian High School: $32,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHart Square Foundation Inc: $25,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHickory Music Factory Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetNewton Depot Authority: $23,800 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCarolina Thread Trail: $21,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWestern Piedmont Symphony Inc: $16,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHickory Museum of Art Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHickory Landmarks Society Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAsheville School Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPregnancy Care Center Inc: $5,300 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Catawba Valley Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnique World Gifts Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPiedmont Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 420: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Corner Table Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAdult Life Programs Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Arts Council of Catawba County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

George Foundation IncNC32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust

How much does The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust give?
The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust reported 25 grants totaling $272,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Religion (21%), Human Services (19%).
Who are The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Neighbors Network Inc ($389k), Linc Inc ($186k), Wake Forest University ($148k).
Does The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George Foundation Inc, Beaver Family Foundation Inc, The Bolick Foundation.
Where is The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust based?
The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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