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Mary Martha Thrift Shop

To provide assistance to individuals and families in need in the surrounding community through the efforts of an all volunteer workforce.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$189kHuman Services$139kReligion$86kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $169,704, the rows itemized in this filing. The $217,632 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $47,928 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.
$8,856
Median grant
1
States reached
$775k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Caring and Sharing Food Pantry$9,264
Operation Food Search SCC$9,264
Hope Food Pantry of OFallon$9,264
Chapel of the Lake Food Pantry$9,264
Community Council of SCC Food Pantry$9,264
St Vincent DePaul Society St Particks$9,264
LINC Food Pantry Wentzville$9,264
Salvation Army Food Pantry$9,264
Dardenne Presbyterian Church$8,856
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church$8,856
United Methodist Church of Wentzville$8,856
Immanuel Lutheran Church$8,856
St Patricks Catholic Church$8,856
St Johns United Church of Christ$8,856
Faith United Church of Christ$8,856
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%St Johns United Church of Christ: $9k → 5%Sleep in Heavenly Peace: $5k → 10%Operation Food Search SCC: $9k → 11%St Johns United Church of Christ: $8k → 5%Operation Food Search SCC: $9k → 11%St Johns United Church of Christ: $8k → 5%Operation Food Search SCC: $8k → 11%Dardenne Presbyterian Church: $9k → 5%Immaculate Conception Catholic Church: $9k → 5%Immaculate Conception Catholic Church: $8k → 5%Dardenne Presbyterian Church: $8k → 5%Dardenne Presbyterian Church: $8k → 5%Immaculate Conception Catholic Church: $8k → 5%Luke 923 Ministry: $7k → 5%Luke 923 Ministry: $6k → 5%The Sparrows Nest: $5k → 5%Habitat for Humanity: $5k → 5%Hope Food Pantry of OFallon: $9k → 5%Salvation Army Food Pantry: $9k → 5%Salvation Army Food Pantry: $9k → 5%Salvation Army Food Pantry: $8k → 5%Salvation Army E-Lodge: $5k → 5%LINC Food Pantry Wentzville: $9k → 5%St Vincent DePaul Society St Particks: $9k → 5%Caring and Sharing Food Pantry: $9k → 5%St Patricks Catholic Church: $9k → 5%United Methodist Church of Wentzville: $9k → 5%Faith United Church of Christ: $9k → 5%Immanuel Lutheran Church: $9k → 5%St Vincent de Paul Society - St Patrick: $9k → 5%Caring and Sharing Food Pantry: $9k → 5%LINC Food Pantry: $9k → 5%St Vincent de Paul Society Food Pantry: $8k → 5%Caring and Sharing Food Pantry: $8k → 5%LINC Food Pantry Wentzville: $8k → 5%Immanuel Lutheran Church: $8k → 5%Faith United Church of CHrist: $8k → 5%St Patricks Catholic Church: $8k → 5%Faith United Church of Christ: $8k → 5%St Patricks Catholic Church: $8k → 5%Chapel of the Lake Food Pantry: $9k → 5%United Methodist Church of Wentzville: $8k → 5%First Baptist Church of Lake Saint Louis: $8k → 5%Immanuel Lutheran Church: $8k → 5%First Baptist Church of Lake St Louis: $8k → 5%Aging Ahead: $6k → 5%Chapel of the Lake Food Pantry: $8k → 5%Aging Ahead: $6k → 5%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$330k · 15 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$330k
$50k

Still filing today

7%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
ReligionHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CC
    Community Council of SCC Food Pantry
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k
  • CA
    Caring and Sharing Food Pantry
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k
  • SA
    Salvation Army Food Pantry
    3× · 2023–2025 · $26k

Funded once

  • LF
    LINC Food Pantry
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • SV
    St Vincent de Paul Society - St Patrick
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • SV
    St Vincent de Paul Society Food Pantry
    one grant, 2023 · $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
04the grantee network

3 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. 3 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Council of SCC Food Pantry: $26,044 · OtherCommunity Council of SCC Food PantryCaring and Sharing Food Pantry: $26,044 · OtherCaring and Sharing Food PantrySalvation Army Food Pantry: $26,044 · OtherSalvation Army Food PantryOperation Food Search SCC: $26,044 · OtherOperation Food Search SCCDARDENNE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $24,983 · OtherDARDENNE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $24,983 · OtherIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHSt Johns United Church of Christ: $24,983 · OtherSt Johns United Church of ChristSt Patricks Catholic Church: $24,983 · OtherSt Patricks Catholic ChurchFaith United Church of Christ: $24,983 · OtherFaith United Church of ChristImmaculate Conception Catholic Church: $24,983 · OtherImmaculate Conception Catholic ChurchLINC Food Pantry Wentzville: $17,544 · OtherChapel of the Lake Food Pantry: $17,055 · OtherUnited Methodist Church of Wentzville: $16,838 · Other+11 more: $90,828 · Other+11 moreLUKE 923 MINISTRY: $12,565 · ReligionTHE SPARROWS NEST: $5,400 · HealthSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5,200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$396,339Religion$12,565Health$5,400Housing & Shelter$5,200

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUKE 923 MINISTRY: $12,565 over 2y, 52% 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 LUKE 923 MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds THE SPARROWS NEST ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Mary Martha Thrift Shop funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Martha Thrift Shop. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    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 Mary Martha Thrift Shop?

    Find your warmest path to Mary Martha Thrift Shop 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 27 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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