· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN'S RIVER VALLEY CAMP | $52,000 |
| NEIGHBORS NETWORK | $40,000 |
| CORINTH REFORMED CHURCH | $25,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $23,500 |
| AMVETS POST 76 | $18,000 |
| LINC | $18,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| CATAWBA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FDN | $10,000 |
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| NEWTON DEPOT AUTHORITY | $9,000 |
| SOLDIERS REUNION | $6,000 |
| WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY | $6,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| HICKORY MUSIC FACTORY | $5,000 |
| TRINITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $238k) 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 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 +30% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NNNEIGHBORS NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $389k · revenue +218% · 31% of their budget
- LILINC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +169%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- HMHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -10%
- TTTRAIN THEM UP CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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…
Sharing and preserving the history of woodstock vt through inspiring educational experiences and dynamic collections
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.
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
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…
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.
At heritage christian school, we exist to serve christ by partnering with parents to provide biblically faithful, academically excellent education.
To provide quality education with a christian foundation.
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 48 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 NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LINC INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Downtown Newton Development Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSIC FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON DEPOT AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Harp Society Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIQUE WORLD GIFTS INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Claude S Jr and Raenelle Aberne Testamentary Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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