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Country Closet Thrift Shop Inc

Selling new and used items to support local and global non-profit organizations.

$269k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$69k
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.

Religion$3.0MHealth$279kFood & Nutrition$275kYouth Development$79kCrime & Legal$66kEducation$45kHuman Services$23k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $253,654, the rows itemized in this filing. The $268,670 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,016 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
$13,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAILY NEEDS ASSISTANCE$69,389
LOVING CARE HOSPICE INC$33,000
AGORA CHRISTIAN$19,800
HOPE'S LANTERN$19,800
SHEKINAH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$17,865
LIFEWISE ACADEMY JA$13,400
SHE DREAMS AGAIN$13,200
LIFEPOINTE FAMILY CENTER INC$13,200
ROSEDALE BIBLE COLLEGE$13,200
NEW PATH PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER$13,200
LIFEWISE ACADEMY WEST JEFFERSON$9,900
LIFEWISE ACADEMY FAIRBANKS$9,900
FOR PLAIN CITY$7,800
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIFEPOINTE FAMILY CENTER INC: $13k → 10%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 13 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$4.0M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+47%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • DN
    Daily Needs Assistance Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $446k · revenue +463%
  • LI
    LIFEWISE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $112k · revenue ×19
  • SD
    SHE DREAMS AGAIN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF PRAISE CHURCH MISSION
    one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue -34%
  • IF
    International Friendships Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +47%
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
Hephzibah House Inc

Charitable support of Hope Baptist Church in Warsaw, Indiana for ministry, evangelism and education

Human Services
2
Fruitful Vine Ministry

Pastoral care

Religion
3
Life Seeds

Christian ministry

Human Services
4
Sonshine Ministries Inc

Through the vehicle of a year-round, all-day preschool and before and after school programs, we seek to live the love of jesus christ to children and their families and to encourage them to accept god's love and forgiveness into their…

Education
5
Shepherds Staff Ministries Inc

Meeting the physical needs of local needy families by providing emergency food and shelter. Assistance is also provided for families unable to pay for utilities and medical services.

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6
Likewise Ministries

To provide a hot meal to families struggling to feed their children

Food & Nutrition
7
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

—
8
Star of David Outreach Ministries

Church with food pantry

Food & Nutrition
9
Re-Entry Ministry Inc

Rescue renew and restore substance addicted women to independent living through Christian faith-based activities and program.

—
10
Pastors in Prayer Ministry Inc

We minister and give prayer support to pastors, their wifes, and staff.

—
11
Victory Life Church International

Church, religious

Religion
12
Sunarise International Ministries

Faith services

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifewise Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shekinah Christian School. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE U S: $2,427,366 · OtherMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE U SAGORA CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC: $157,570 · OtherAGORA CHRISTIAN SERVICES INC+7 more: $312,540 · Other+7 moreDaily Needs Assistance Inc: $445,948 · ReligionDaily Needs …+1 more: $8,000 · ReligionTHE LOVING CARE HOSPICE INC: $274,300 · HealthTHE LOVIN…PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $51,200 · HealthPREGNANCY…SUFFICIENT GRACE INC: $160,435 · Food & NutritionLIFEWISE INC: $111,800 · Youth DevelopmentSHE DREAMS AGAIN: $79,200 · Crime & LegalSHEKINAH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $17,865 · EducationLIFEPOINTE FAMILY CENTER INC: $13,200 · Human Services
Other$2,897,476Religion$453,948Health$325,500Food & Nutrition$160,435Youth Development$111,800Crime & Legal$79,200Education$17,865Human Services$13,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDaily Needs Assistance Inc: $445,948 over 9y, 14% of budgetTHE LOVING CARE HOSPICE INC: $274,300 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetSUFFICIENT GRACE INC: $160,435 over 8y, 22% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $111,800 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSHE DREAMS AGAIN: $79,200 over 5y, 15% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF UNION COUNTY: $51,200 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF PRAISE CHURCH MISSION: $27,800 over 1y, 20% of budgetLIFEPOINTE FAMILY CENTER INC: $13,200 over 1y, 18% of budgetMARYSVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $13,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetInternational Friendships Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 SHEKINAH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LIFEPOINTE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYSVILLE AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds International Friendships 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.

Columbus FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Columbus FoundationOH14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

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    How do I get to Country Closet Thrift Shop Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Country Closet Thrift Shop 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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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