· Public charity
Country Closet Thrift Shop Inc
Selling new and used items to support local and global non-profit organizations.
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.
The 12 grants below total $593,510 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $612,271 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,761 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
- $250k+1 grant · $384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE | $383,985 |
| DAILY NEEDS ASSISTANCE | $65,220 |
| LOVING CARE HOSPICE INC | $30,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY JA | $22,000 |
| AGORA CHRISTIAN | $18,980 |
| NEW PATH PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $14,000 |
| ROSEDALE BIBLE COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| SHE DREAMS AGAIN | $12,000 |
| SUFFICIENT GRACE | $10,675 |
| HOPE'S LANTERN | $10,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY FAIRBANKS | $7,500 |
| PLAIN CITY CHURCH FELLOWSHIP | $7,150 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- DNDaily Needs Assistance Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $377k · revenue +463%
- LILIFEWISE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $79k · revenue ×19
- SDSHE DREAMS AGAIN4× · 2021–2024 · $66k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF PRAISE CHURCH MISSIONone grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue -34%
- IFInternational Friendships Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +47%
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.
Pastoral care
Provide meals to the needy and provide housing for indiviuals/families who wish to leave homelessness and enable themselves to enter or re-enter the workforce.
Minstry for christ to the needy
Church, religious
Feeding the hungry
Church with food pantry
Christian ministry
Rescue renew and restore substance addicted women to independent living through Christian faith-based activities and program.
Cared for elderly, sick and poor. taught sunday school to children, mentored young adults, taught adults on sunday and counseled people on spiritual and family issues. assisted orphanage in india and missionairies in phillipines.
Faith services
Providing food church and education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifewise Inc and the most unlike its peers is She Dreams Again. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 Daily Needs Assistance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOVING CARE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFICIENT GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds SHE DREAMS AGAIN ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF UNION COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF PRAISE CHURCH MISSION ↗
- Who funds MARYSVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds International Friendships 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: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Country Closet Thrift Shop 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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