California · Public charity
Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop
Organization's mission is to provide revenues to other non-profits that support children's special needs predominantly in the local community.
- $576k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $553k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $329k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $523k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $520k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $499k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $470k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $207k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $40k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $216k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of Santa Cruz County | $220,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Coastal Kids Home Care | $220,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Partnership for Children | $200,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County | $145,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Monarch Services-Servicios Monarca | $140,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Special Parents Information Network of Santa Cruz County | $125,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Community Bridges | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Teen Kitchen Project | $109,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Walnut Avenue Family & Womens Center | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 37 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · East Bay Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · Dignity Health · The Nicholson Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Rotary Club of SC Sunrise Foundation
How this is measured
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About Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop
- How much does Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop give?
- Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop reported 30 itemized grants totaling $552,500, out of $575,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (32%), Health (29%), Food & Nutrition (18%).
- Who are Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hospice of Santa Cruz County ($220k), Coastal Kids Home Care ($220k), Partnership for Children ($200k).
- Does Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County.
- Where is Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop based?
- Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop is based in CA.
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