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Recent news about the Custodes Libertades Memorial Foundation

Join the CLMF Carry the Load Team

02 Apr 2024

Join the Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation (CLMF) as we walk in relays across the country this April and May! Consider walking in one of the relay cities this year to show support for the children of our fallen Naval Academy alumni.

Join our Carry the Load team by clicking here. All donations through the Custodes team page will be donated from Carry the Load directly to CLMF.

A detailed set of instructions as well as a list of cities holding relays (in-person group walk event) is attached to this message.

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Custodes Libertades Memorial Foundation is partnering with Carry the Load in 2024!

20 Jan 2024

Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation is grateful to be named a Carry the Load Nonprofit Partner for a 6th consecutive year.

Press Release

Sign-ups for the national relay and Memorial May rallies across the country will begin soon.


Join our Carry the Load team

30 Mar 2021

Please sign up to participate on the Custodes Libertatis team for Carry the Load’s Memorial May national relay! Every dollar our team raises through its Carry the Load participation will be received directly by Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation. Join our team here: carrytheload.org/custodes.


Custodes Libertatis will partner with Carry the Load for the 4th consecutive year!

30 Jan 2021

Custodes Libertatis will partner with Carry the Load for the 4th consecutive year!


Alumni Association's Council of Class Presidents presentation

23 Mar 2020

Custodes Libertatis will present to members of the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association’s Council of Class Presidents at 12:45pm EST on April 29th, 2021


Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation will partner with Carry The Load in 2019!

11 Feb 2019

Click here to join our team at rallies and marches throughout the country in April and May. Join team “Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation” at http://www.carrytheload.org/site/PageServer?pagename=relay


Custodes Libertatis has been selected as a beneficiary of The Tailgate With A Cause!

24 Sep 2018

Custodes Libertades Memorial Foundation is partnering with Carry the Load!

09 Jun 2018


Custodes Libertatis Memorial Fund Launches New Initiative for Children of Fallen U.S. Naval Academy Alumni

17 Jan 2017

Greetings and best wishes in this New Year. The Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation (the “Foundation”) was established to support the families of those Naval Alumni who sacrificed life and limb in defense of our country and our way of life.

The Foundation is a newly formed tax exempt nonprofit corporation chartered in the state of Delaware. The Foundation was granted tax exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. The undersigned are founding members of the organization and comprise the current Board of Directors. Per its charter, and by design, the Foundation is neither able to profit from its activities, nor able to compensate any member or volunteer in the course of its operation. Current and future funds controlled by or entrusted to the Foundation will support the Foundation’s mission.

The mission of the Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation is to provide financial benefits for the purpose of education to the immediate family members of Naval Academy alumni who have been killed or injured on or after September 11, 2001 in U.S. military combat or training, in service with U.S. intelligence agencies, law enforcement or as a first responder. We found relevant meaning in our Class of 2006 motto, “Custodes Libertatis,” as we sought to name this effort to honor and memorialize those “Guardians of Freedom” who have sacrificed so much in our defense. While other organizations exist to benefit wounded or deceased West Point alumni, Special Operations personnel and other groups, the Naval Academy was in need of an organization or mechanism to provide financial benefits for education to the families of wounded or deceased post-9/11 alumni across all eligible graduating classes. The Custodes Libertatis Memorial Foundation will provide such assistance, regardless of the graduate’s class.

If you are willing to assist in providing benefits from the Foundation to the children of our courageous shipmates, please contact us to volunteer your time or make a donation today.

This site will provide updates to upcoming events being planned throughout the United States, and will release more details on timing for this summer’s initial round of scholarships. We look forward to hearing from you and working together to help those who have given so much in our defense.

Sincerely,

Justin Freeh, President

Daniel Runzheimer, Secretary and Treasurer

Samuel Spletzer, Director