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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.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$467kReligion$305kFood & Nutrition$195kHealth$140kHousing & Shelter$71kCrime & Legal$63kYouth Development$63k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $315k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$673k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ATHENS$30,000
ROCK HILL BAPTIST CHURCH$30,000
RUBY'S SAFE HAVEN$15,000
EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER$15,000
HEND CO COMM PTRS RAINBOW ROOM$15,000
LILA LANE OUTREACH$15,000
IN HIS HANDS CHILDRENS HOME$15,000
CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY$15,000
DISCIPLES CLINIC$15,000
ALZHEIMERS COALATION OF HENDERSON C$15,000
ATHENS SAMARITANS INC$15,000
YOUNG LIFE$15,000
FAMILY PEACE PROJECT$15,000
HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER$15,000
THE KINGS REIN INC$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%IN HIS HANDS CHILDRENS HOME: $15k → 13%IN HIS HANDS CHILDRENS HOME: $8k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER: $15k → 13%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $15k → 13%LOVE IN ACTION: $15k → 13%HEND CO COMM PTRS RAINBOW ROOM: $15k → 13%LILA LANE OUTREACH: $15k → 13%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $15k → 13%LOVE IN ACTION: $15k → 13%HEND CO COMM PTRS RAINBOW ROOM: $15k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER: $15k → 13%LILA LANE OUTREACH: $15k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER: $11k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $11k → 13%LILA LANE OUTREACH: $11k → 13%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $11k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER: $11k → 13%LOVE IN ACTION: $11k → 13%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 13%LILA LANE OUTREACH: $8k → 13%HEND CO COMM PTRS RAINBOW ROOM: $8k → 13%LOVE IN ACTION: $8k → 13%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $8k → 13%LILA LANE OUTREACH: $8k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER: $8k → 13%LOVE IN ACTION: $8k → 13%HEND CO COMM PTRS RAINBOW ROOM: $8k → 13%LOVE IN ACTION: $6k → 13%EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER: $6k → 13%HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER: $6k → 13%LILA LANE OUTREACH: $6k → 13%HEND CO COMM PTRS RAINBOW ROOM: $6k → 13%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 22 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
2

Total granted

$1.3M
$17k

Still filing today

73%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +107%
  • ET
    EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $64k · revenue +85%
  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $63k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY YOUNG LIFE
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • FH
    FOUNDRY HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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

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.

1
Henderson County Homeless Coalition

Assistance with housing for homeless clients. This can include rent, utilities or deposits. We provided assistance for over 250 clients

Human Services
2
Ashtabula Homeless Shelterinc

Provide emergency shelter and meals, case management and assessment to homeless individuals and families from the ashtabula county and surrounding areas.

Housing & Shelter
3
Samaritan Ministries

Provide temporary housing to people in crisis situations, provide counseling and other services 24 hours a day without regard to race, creed or religion

Philanthropy
4
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
5
My Fathers Storehouse the Storehouse

To provide food and other basic necessities for those in need in henderson county north carolina.

Human Services
6
Hendrick Home for Children
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7
Homeless Coalition of Dallas

Provide food and clothing to homeless in Dallas and Carrolton area

Human Services
8
Colton Helping Hands Inc

To provide free food to jobless, homeless and needy.

Food & Nutrition
9
God Provides Ministry

To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others

Food & Nutrition
10
Family Promise of Gainesville Florida Inc

Provide food and shelter for the homeless.

Human Services
11
His Supper Table

Provide meals to the needy

Food & Nutrition
12
Christian Helping Hands of Comanche

Its mission is to share the love of jesus as we provide food, clothing, housing, and hope to the hungry, homeless and hurting

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Henderson County Help Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ATHENS: $148,530 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ATHENSROCK HILL BAPTIST CHURCH: $85,665 · OtherROCK HILL BAPTIST CHURCHRUBYS SAFE HAVEN: $64,265 · OtherRUBYS SAFE HAVENATHENS SAMARITANS INC: $62,665 · OtherATHENS SAMARITANS INCARK CAMPUS MINISTRY: $54,265 · OtherARK CAMPUS MINISTRYHENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $46,535 · OtherHENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRYKINGS REIN INC: $23,000 · Other+3 more: $33,065 · Other+3 moreHENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC: $65,265 · Human ServicesHENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER …EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $64,265 · Human ServicesEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INCHENDERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM: $62,665 · Human ServicesHENDERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PA…Henderson County Homeless Ministry: $62,665 · Human ServicesHenderson County Homeless Min…LILA LANE OUTREACH INC: $62,665 · Human ServicesLILA LANE OUTREACH INCIN HIS HANDS CHILDRENS HOME: $23,000 · Human ServicesIN HIS HANDS CHILDRENS HOMEMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $62,665 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHE…FAITH IN ACTION OUTREACH INC: $62,665 · Food & NutritionFAITH IN ACT…ATHENS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $22,965 · Food & NutritionATHENS SOUP …ALZHEIMERS COALITION OF HENDERSON COUNTY: $62,665 · HealthALZHEIMERS…DISCIPLES CLINIC OF ATHENS TEXAS: $54,265 · HealthDISCIPLES …CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $62,665 · Civil RightsFAMILY PEACE PROJECT INC: $62,665 · Community ImprovementYOUNG LIFE: $54,265 · Youth Development
Other$517,990Human Services$340,525Food & Nutrition$148,295Health$116,930Civil Rights$62,665Community Improvement$62,665Youth Development$54,265

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 budgetHENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC: $65,265 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetEAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC: $64,265 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetALZHEIMERS COALITION OF HENDERSON COUNTY: $62,665 over 6y, 18% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM: $62,665 over 6y, 24% of budgetCASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC: $62,665 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILY PEACE PROJECT INC: $62,665 over 6y, 14% of budgetATHENS SAMARITANS INC: $62,665 over 6y, 10% of budgetHenderson County Homeless Ministry: $62,665 over 6y, 11% of budgetLILA LANE OUTREACH INC: $62,665 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $62,665 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION OUTREACH INC: $62,665 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetDISCIPLES CLINIC OF ATHENS TEXAS: $54,265 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $54,265 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $46,535 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetIN HIS HANDS CHILDRENS HOME: $23,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetATHENS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $22,965 over 3y, 22% 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.

  • Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY HELP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST TEXAS CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS COALITION OF HENDERSON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HENDERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF TRINITY VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PEACE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ATHENS SAMARITANS INC ↗
  • Who funds Henderson County Homeless Ministry ↗
  • Who funds LILA LANE OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH IN ACTION OUTREACH 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 ↗

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.

East Texas Communitie…Henderson County Unit…Effie and Wofford Cai…Tvec Charitable Found…Ginger Murchison Foun…Omega Foundation IncBen and Maytee Fisch …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
East Texas Communities FoundationTX30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Athens Thrift Store Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Athens Thrift Store Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Athens Thrift Store Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Athens Thrift Store Inc 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 24 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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