· Public charity
Second Chance Shop
The mission of second chance thrift shop is to generate funds through the sale of donated items.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SUMMERVILLE INC | $50,000 |
| KEYS TO CHANGE | $45,000 |
| DOORS TO FREEDOM | $45,000 |
| KATIE'S KROPS | $25,000 |
| EXPANDING THE TABLE | $20,000 |
| HEARTS FOR SUMMERVILLE | $15,000 |
| DORCHESTER SENIORS INC | $12,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF SUMMERVILLE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $206k · revenue +89%
- DCDORCHESTER COUNTY COMMUNITY OUTREACH4× · 2022–2025 · $173k · revenue +313%
- DTDOORS TO FREEDOM4× · 2022–2025 · $172k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HOHELP OF SUMMERVILLEone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue +22% · 33% of their budget
- MHMAGDALENE HOUSE OF CHARLESTONone grant, 2024 · $10k · 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.
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.
Providing meals to the elderly and needy
Serving older individuals
Meals for elderly
Provide 115+ local shut-in seniors with hot lunches 5 days a week
Senior Center facility for the local Meals on Wheels production.
Adults day care
Food to poor and elderly
The mission of the food cupboard is to nourish and feed those in our community who are unable to do so on their own primarily due to limited financial resources.
Provide transportation and meals and additional assistance to elderly
Assisting and housing females in recovery
To reduce hunger and poverty in the Tri-County Area by providing individuals and families with food, clothing, shelter, resource and spiritual support while striving to employ, educate and empower.
To delivery hot meals to those unable to leave their homes. we also assist with rent and utlitilies to families in need.
How this is measured
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 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Second Chance Shop funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Second Chance Shop. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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