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The Monford D and Lucy L Custer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$118kArts & Culture$109kHealth$109kEducation$88kFood & Nutrition$40kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$10kOther$279k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER$25,000
SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC$12,500
PIN MINISTRY$12,500
SAFE SHELTER$10,000
MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM$10,000
ADULT CARE CENTER OF THE NSV$10,000
LOOP IT UP SAVANNAH$10,000
ARTS SOUTHEAST$10,000
TAMRA LEARNING ACADEMY$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACTION PLANNING TEAM ADAPT: $4k → 22%PIN MINISTRY: $13k → 10%ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE: $21k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$488k · 12 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$488k
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-32%

Still filing today

83%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TL
    THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE
    4× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +47%
  • BO
    BARNS OF ROSE HILL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • TM
    THE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • WE
    WINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -47%
  • RA
    ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +42%
  • AP
    A PLACE TO BE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hope House Day Care Center Inc

The purpose of the organization is to provide supportive social services to children and individuals affected by hiv and poverty in order to enhance the quality of their lives. the mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals…

Human Services
2
Hope Harbor Home Inc

Hope Harbor Home strives to break the cycle of domestic and sexual violence in Brunswick County, North Carolina.

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3
Sheffield Care Center Inc

At the sheffield care center our mission, through dedicated teamwork, is to provide all who enter our doors with a clean, comfortable, home-like atmosphere where honesty, dignity, respect and genuine compassion for one another prevails.

Human Services
4
The Child Care and Learning Center

The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.

Education
5
Virginia B Andes Volunteer Community Clinic Inc

Provide no-cost volunteer medical, pharmacy and wellness services to the under-served in charlotte county

Health
6
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
7
Sunset Community Health Center

To deliver comprehensive and preventive primary care in a culturally sensitive, compassionate and professional manner, ultimately improving the health of our patients and responding to the health and education needs of our communities.

Health
8
Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc

It is the purpose of the Center to deliver the highest quality childcare, youth and adult development services to lower income families and the growing immigrant population in Bridgehampton and surrounding communities through educational…

Human Services
9
Loudoun Community Health Center Healthworks for Northern Virginia

To provide excellent and affordable medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare to those who have limited or no health insurance by being compassionate, culturally competent and accessible to all.

Health
10
New Leaf Behavioral Health

New leaf behavioral health believes quality mental health care should be accessible to all in need in our community. we strive to make this vision a reality by providing innovative access to cutting edge outpatient clinical services.

Health
11
Margaret B Shipley Child Health Clinic Inc

The margaret b. shipley child health clinic is a nonprofit, safety-net community pediatric clinic offering best-in-class healthcare to children with the aim to improve health equity for all.

Health
12
Stevens Center

Providing personalized support for individuals with developmental disabalities to live fulfilling lives in a welcoming community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockbridge Area Hospice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
10/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF ROANOKE — $70,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ROANOKEBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMARILLO — $59,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMARILLOIndividual grant recipient — $21,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientA PLACE TO BE — $20,000 · OtherA PLACE TO BEMARBRIDGE HOME — $17,000 · OtherMARBRIDGE HOMEVIRGINIA BEACH SAMARITAN HOUSE — $15,000 · OtherVIRGINIA BEACH SAMARITAN HOUSEHOOFS 4 HEALING EQUESTRIAN SERVICES INC — $13,000 · OtherCORY JOSEPH WILSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · OtherADULT CARE CENTER OF THE NSV — $10,000 · OtherSAFE SHELTER — $10,000 · OtherTAMRA LEARNING ACADEMY — $10,000 · Other+4 more — $20,265 · Other+4 moreTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $70,400 · Human ServicesTHE LAUREL CENTER…ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesROCKBRIDGE AREA H…PIN MINISTRY — $12,500 · Human ServicesPIN MINISTRYSTEP UP VENTURA — $10,000 · Human ServicesSTEP UP VENTURAAMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACTION PLANNING TEAM — $4,000 · Human ServicesBARNS OF ROSE HILL — $50,000 · Arts & CultureBARNS OF ROSE H…ARTS SOUTHEAST INC — $20,575 · Arts & CultureARTS SOUTHEAST …TEMPLE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $14,590 · Arts & CultureTEMPLE CHILDREN…CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHANNEL ISLANDS…LOOP IT UP SAVANNAH INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLOOP IT UP SAVA…SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HOPE CLINIC INC — $52,000 · HealthNEW HOPE CLINIC…LEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 · HealthLEARY EDUCATION…DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC — $12,500 · HealthDR TERRY SINCLA…HOPE HOUSE INC — $12,000 · HealthHOPE HOUSE INCTHE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC — $35,000 · EducationTHE MATTHEW …WINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationWINCHESTER E…FREMONT STREET NURSERY — $23,000 · EducationFREMONT STRE…AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$278,865Human Services$117,900Arts & Culture$109,165Health$108,500Education$88,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $70,400 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMARILLO — $59,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW HOPE CLINIC INC — $52,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBARNS OF ROSE HILL — $50,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MATTHEW REARDON CENTER FOR AUTISM INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLEARY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFREMONT STREET NURSERY — $23,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE INC — $21,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetARTS SOUTHEAST INC — $20,575 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetA PLACE TO BE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTEMPLE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $14,590 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPIN MINISTRY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOOP IT UP SAVANNAH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACTION PLANNING TEAM — $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of Clarke Co…American Woodmark Fou…The Community Foundat…United Way of Norther…The Clara Weiss FundThe Community Foundat…Ridgeway Em-CharittuwJohn L Harrell & Marg…Andrew U Ferrari Foun…Borden FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
The Bank of Clarke County FoundationVA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · The Clara Weiss Fund · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Ridgeway Em-Charittuw · John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · Borden Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 The Monford D and Lucy L Custer Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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