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Custos Foundation

The Custos Foundations mission is to support the worldwide operations and activities of the Catholic Church by educating the public on and preserving the five main pillars of the Christian faith: the Christian Tradition the family ethos dignity and sacredness of life western thought and all forms of sacred art.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$7.0MReligion$289kHuman Services$143kPhilanthropy$25kArts & Culture$11kInternational$10k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $4,035,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,235,459 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $199,659 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $278k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.7M
$22,300
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Syracuse University$3,660,000
Friends of the Consoling Sisters$200,000
International Institute for Culture Inc$77,500
Friends of Aventine Hill Foundation$25,000
Equestrian Order of Holy Sepulchre-Jersusalem$22,300
Elm Institute Inc$20,000
Catholic Sacred Music Project Inc$11,000
Catholic Near East Welfare Association$10,000
Permanent Observer Mission of the Holly See$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%International Institute for Culture Inc: $78k → 22%Elm Institute Inc: $20k → 12%International Institute of Culture Inc: $25k → 22%International Institute for Culture: $10k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 3 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$7.1M
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $276k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +13%
  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +7%
  • TA
    THE ASSOCIATION OF KNIGHTS AND LADIES ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TN
    The Neumann Forum Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · 38% of their budget
  • PF
    PRIESTLY FRATERNITY OF ST PETER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CI
    CARITAS IN VERITATE - CIV USA
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 13 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $7,000,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYFriends of the Consoling Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Inc: $200,000 · ReligionThe Neumann Forum Inc: $35,000 · ReligionINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE INC: $112,500 · Human ServicesElm Institute Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE ASSOCIATION OF KNIGHTS AND LADIES ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM: $27,800 · OtherFriends of Aventine Hill Foundation: $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC SACRED MUSIC PROJECT INC: $11,000 · OtherPermanent Observer Mission of the Holly See: $10,000 · OtherPRIESTLY FRATERNITY OF ST PETER INC: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE ASSOC INC: $10,000 · OtherPRESERVE THE LATIN MASS INC: $6,000 · OtherCARITAS IN VERITATE - CIV USA: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Education$7,000,000Religion$235,000Human Services$132,500Other$99,800Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $7,000,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Consoling Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CULTURE INC: $112,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetThe Neumann Forum Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF KNIGHTS AND LADIES ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM: $27,800 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetElm Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCARITAS IN VERITATE - CIV USA: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Custos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Custos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Custos Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Custos Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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