· Public charity
Athens Thrift Store Inc
Athens thift store, inc.'s purpose is to strengthen nonprofit organizations in the community through grants and distributions derived from the sale of donated goods from the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK HILL BAPTIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ATHENS | $30,000 |
| ATHENS SAMARITANS INC | $15,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $15,000 |
| LILA LANE OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| IN HIS HANDS CHILDRENS HOME | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PEACE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE KINGS REIN INC | $15,000 |
| CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY | $15,000 |
| FAITH IN ACTION OUTREACH INC | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| DISCIPLES CLINIC | $15,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS COALATION OF HENDERSON C | $15,000 |
| ARK CAMPUS MINISTRY | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HCHENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +107%
- ETEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $64k · revenue +85%
- HCHenderson County Homeless Ministry6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- FHFOUNDRY HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $8k
- HCHENDERSON COUNTY YOUNG LIFEone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
Assistance with housing for homeless clients. This can include rent, utilities or deposits. We provided assistance for over 250 clients
Provide emergency shelter and meals, case management and assessment to homeless individuals and families from the ashtabula county and surrounding areas.
Provide temporary housing to people in crisis situations, provide counseling and other services 24 hours a day without regard to race, creed or religion
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To provide food and other basic necessities for those in need in henderson county north carolina.
Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area
To provide free food to jobless, homeless and needy.
To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others
Provide food and shelter for the homeless.
Provide meals to the needy
Its mission is to share the love of jesus as we provide food, clothing, housing, and hope to the hungry, homeless and hurting
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henderson County Help Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Peace Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County Homeless Ministry ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PEACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LILA LANE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS COALITION OF HENDERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ATHENS SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds DISCIPLES CLINIC OF ATHENS TEXAS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds IN HIS HANDS CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds ATHENS SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
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: East Texas Communities Foundation · Henderson County United Way · Effie and Wofford Cain Foundation · Tvec Charitable Foundation Inc · Ginger Murchison Foundation · Omega Foundation Inc · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Athens Thrift Store Inc 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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