· Private foundation
Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer
Its FY2025 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 · 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 |
| CHAIN BREAKER MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD | $20,000 |
| CASA | $17,000 |
| LOVE CHAPEL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH OF BARTHOLOMEW | $15,000 |
| JUST FRIENDS INC | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF COLUMBUS ANIMAL CARE SERVICES | $12,000 |
| COLUMBUS INDIANA PHILHARMONIC | $12,000 |
| BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,000 |
| MILL RACE CENTER INC | $12,000 |
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +39% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 104 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 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clarence E Custer and Inez R Custer. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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