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GM First & Second Thrift Store

To raise money for local nonprofit through the sale of donated goods; To work with social services and local churches to provide clothing and household goods to people in need; To decrease the amount of clothing and household goods going to a landfill; To offer a source of lightly used goods for a affordable price; To offer community…

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Religion$56kHuman Services$48kHousing & Shelter$43kArts & Culture$31kEducation$22kAnimals$18k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $151,450, the rows itemized in this filing. The $180,003 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,553 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 $10k8 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
$9,836
Median grant
1
States reached
$238k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hamilton Habitat$27,182
First Congregational Church$15,625
Grand Marais Playhouse$14,172
Arrowhead Animal Rescue$12,195
Violence Prevention Center$11,801
Bethlehem Lutheran Church$11,572
Care Partners of Cook County$9,836
Evangelical Free Church$8,830
Great Expectations Foundation$8,455
School District 166$8,394
Cook County Council on Aging$6,725
Tofte Historical Society$6,136
Great Expectations School$5,401
American Legion Auxiliary Post 413$5,126
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 (FY24–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Violence Prevention Center: $12k → 9%Care Partners of Cook County: $10k → 9%Violence Prevention Center: $8k → 9%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$165k · 7 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$165k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

57%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • HH
    HAMILTON HABITAT INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $43k · revenue 0%
  • FC
    First Congregational Church
    2× · 2024–2025 · $29k
  • GM
    Grand Marais Playhouse Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $24k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • CP
    Care Partners of Cook County
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • EF
    EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH
    one grant, 2025 · $9k
  • GE
    GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $8k · revenue 0%
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
Cook County Chamber
Philanthropy
2
Minnesota Association of Geriatrics Inspired Clinicians
Health
3
Greater Elgin Chamber of Commerce

To promote business and tourism in the Elgin area.

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4
Henry County Senior Citizens

Provide services to senior citizens in henry county, illinois.

Human Services
5
Citizens for Glen Ellyn Preservation

Preserving the historic character of Glen Ellyn, Illinois

Arts & Culture
6
Empty Bowls Cook County
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7
The Veterans Exchange

Employment support and exchange for veterans

—
8
Cook County Visitors Bureau

The corporation exists to promote and increase tourism within cook county, minnesota for the benefit of its members and their members, employees and communities. it will endeavor to efficiently use funds for its infrastructure and…

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9
Chicago Hyde Park Village Nfp

Founded in 2011, the mission of Chicago Hyde Park Village (CHPV) is to create a community of ?neighbors helping neighbors? on the south side of Chicago by providing opportunities for social engagement, educational programs, and…

Community Improvement
10
Grundy County Council On Aging Inc

Provide home delivered meals and congregated meals for area senior citizens

Human Services
11
Cook County Community Radio

Public service community radio station.

Arts & Culture
12
Shawchicago Theater Co

Performing arts

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Expectations School; the most unlike its peers is American Legion Auxiliary Post 413. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Congregational Church: $28,806 · OtherFirst Congregational ChurchBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH: $18,574 · OtherBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCHARROWHEAD ANIMAL RESCUE: $18,076 · OtherARROWHEAD ANIMAL RESCUECOOK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $13,343 · OtherCOOK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGEVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH: $8,830 · OtherEVANGELICAL FREE CHURCHCOOK COUNTY SCHOOLS-ISD #166: $8,394 · OtherCOOK COUNTY SCHOOLS-ISD #166TOFTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,136 · OtherTOFTE HISTORICAL SOCIETYAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY POST 413: $5,126 · OtherHAMILTON HABITAT INC: $42,528 · Housing & ShelterHAMILTON HABITAT INCViolence Prevention Center: $19,609 · Human ServicesViolence Preven…Care Partners of Cook County: $9,836 · Human ServicesCare Partners o…Grand Marais Playhouse Inc: $24,408 · Arts & CultureGrand Marais…GREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION: $8,455 · PhilanthropyGREAT EXPECTATIONS SCHOOL: $5,401 · Education
Other$107,285Housing & Shelter$42,528Human Services$29,445Arts & Culture$24,408Philanthropy$8,455Education$5,401

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAMILTON HABITAT INC: $42,528 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetGrand Marais Playhouse Inc: $24,408 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetViolence Prevention Center: $19,609 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCOOK COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $13,343 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCare Partners of Cook County: $9,836 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGREAT EXPECTATIONS FOUNDATION: $8,455 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGREAT EXPECTATIONS SCHOOL: $5,401 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.

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.

Lloyd K Johnson Found…Northland FoundationDuluth-Superior Area …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Lloyd K Johnson FoundationMN17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Northland Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community 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 GM First & Second Thrift Store funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from GM First & Second Thrift Store. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    4report 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, FY20–25
    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

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    How do I get to GM First & Second Thrift Store?

    Find your warmest path to GM First & Second Thrift Store 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 14 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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