South Carolina · Public charity
Second Chance Shop
The mission of second chance thrift shop is to generate funds through the sale of donated items. Generated funds are then distributed to local nonprofit organizations.
- $257k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $212k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $436k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Second Chance Shop funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 7 | $212k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $210k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $180k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $158k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meals on Wheels of Summerville Inc | $206,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Dorchester County Community Outreach | $173,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Doors to Freedom | $172,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Katie's Krops | $89,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Expanding the Table | $32,500 | 2 | 18% |
| Help of Summerville | $28,000 | 1 | 33% |
| Hearts for Summerville | $27,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Dorchester Seniors Inc | $22,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Magdalene House of Charleston | $10,000 | 1 | 8% |
Where it is load-bearing
Second Chance Shop supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Second Chance Shop
- How much does Second Chance Shop give?
- Second Chance Shop reported 7 itemized grants totaling $212,000, out of $256,626 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Second Chance Shop fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (43%), Housing & Shelter (23%), Crime & Legal (23%).
- Who are Second Chance Shop's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Meals on Wheels of Summerville Inc ($206k), Dorchester County Community Outreach ($173k), Doors to Freedom ($172k).
- Does Second Chance Shop fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Second Chance Shop?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Second Chance Shop based?
- Second Chance Shop is based in SC.
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