· Private foundation
Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer
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 $10k20 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $274k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $124k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGE TO DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE INC | $72,000 |
| HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA | $51,500 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY COLUMBUS | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $34,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY | $25,000 |
| CHAIN BREAKER MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD | $20,000 |
| CASA | $17,000 |
| JUST FRIENDS INC | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH OF BARTHOLOMEW | $15,000 |
| LOVE CHAPEL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF COLUMBUS ANIMAL CARE SERVICES | $12,000 |
| MILL RACE CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,000 |
| COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $465k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +38% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 9 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- OHOUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +42%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +208%
- BTBRIDGE TO DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $112k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- EAECUMENICAL ASSEMPLY OF BARTHOLOMEWone grant, 2020 · $20k
- KKIDSCOMMONone grant, 2020 · $8k
- CCCOLUMBUS CHILD CARE CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -50%
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.
The organization was established to support the heritage fund - the community foundation of bartholomew county, inc., the city of columbus and bartholomew county in indiana by preserving and maintaining land and buildings of historic or…
Inspiring life journeys
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.
Our mission is to inspire and enable youth ensuring they have the resources and opportunities to grow, learn, and thrive.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
To provide for the humane treatment of animals in clinton county, indiana
To serve as advocates for the needs and interests of community-based mental health providers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Bartholomew County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Seymour Trust Fund. 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 46 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 104 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 OUR HOSPICE OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO DOVE RECOVERY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds MILL RACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FIREMAN'S CHEER FUND ↗
- Who funds Family Service of Bartholomew County Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAIN BREAKER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS INDIANA ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Elizabeth Ruddick Nugent Foundation · Heritage Fund - the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County Inc · Carl Marshall Reeves and Mildred Almen Reeves Foundation Inc · United Way of Bartholomew County Inc · Hazel M Teegarden Foundation Inc · Robert & Helen Haddad Foundation · Centra Foundation Inc · Repp Associates Foundation · Columbus Regional Hospital Foundation Inc · Visitors Center Inc · The Conover Foundation Inc Agt · The Presbyterian Foundation of Columbus Indiana
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 Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer 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.
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