How much does The Bargain Box give?

The Bargain Box reported 33 itemized grants totaling $509,600, out of $574,334 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Bargain Box fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are The Bargain Box's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Children's Center Inc ($343k), Hopeful Horizons ($306k), Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc ($280k).

Does The Bargain Box fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bargain Box?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Heritage Classic Foundation.

Where is The Bargain Box based?

The Bargain Box is based in SC.

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South Carolina · Public charity

The Bargain Box

THE BARGAIN BOX's mission is to raise funds from the sale of donated merchandise and distribute the funds to various local charitable organizations.

$574k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 33
Itemized grants FY2025: 33
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $510k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $12,608
Largest grant, FY2025: $42,500
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 46; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Bargain Box funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentEmploymentArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	32	$510k	6%
FY2024	33	$512k	0%
FY2023	31	$469k	6%
FY2022	28	$406k	11%
FY2021	27	$364k	0%
FY2020	39	$350k	10%
FY2019	46	$450k	17%
FY2018	38	$450k	11%

96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$661kHealth$448kArts & Culture$364kEducation$326kFood & Nutrition$289kEnvironment$275kReligion$271kRecreation & Sports$226kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Children's Center Inc	$342,500	9	3%
Hopeful Horizons	$305,500	9	1%
Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc	$280,000	9	1%
The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic	$240,000	9	1%
Coastal Discovery Museum	$237,000	9	2%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc	$222,300	9	1%
Second Helpings	$141,500	9	2%
Lowcountry Legal Volunteers	$116,000	9	4%
Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc	$114,000	9	1%
Family Promise of the Lowcountry	$109,000	8	4%

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All grantees of The Bargain Box by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Children's Center Inc	$342,500	9	3%
Hopeful Horizons	$305,500	9	1%
Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc	$280,000	9	1%
The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic	$240,000	9	1%
Coastal Discovery Museum	$237,000	9	2%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc	$222,300	9	1%
Second Helpings	$141,500	9	2%
Lowcountry Legal Volunteers	$116,000	9	4%
Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Inc	$114,000	9	1%
Family Promise of the Lowcountry	$109,000	8	4%
Memory Matters	$107,792	9	1%
Neighborhood Outreach Connection	$102,500	8	4%
Child Abuse Prevention Association	$95,500	8	1%
Bluffton Self Help Inc	$92,000	9	0%
Meals on Wheels Inc	$86,000	9	1%
Foundation for Educational Excellence	$81,000	9	74%
Hilton Head Island Recreation	$65,500	4	1%
The Hunger Coalition of the Lowcountry	$60,000	6	8%
Bluffton-Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine Inc	$60,000	6	3%
Heroes on Horseback	$57,000	8	4%
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina	$56,800	9	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empireinc	$55,000	6	1%
Antioch Educational Center	$53,750	8	n/a
Programs for Exceptional People	$49,500	7	1%
Heroes of the Low Country	$41,750	7	28%
Sandalwood Community Food Pantry	$41,700	6	2%
Port Royal Sound Foundation	$40,000	4	1%
Lowcountry Gullah Foundation	$40,000	3	10%
The Literacy Center	$36,000	4	4%
Nami Lowcountry	$30,000	4	4%
Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen	$28,108	4	4%
Lowcountry Autism Foundation Inc	$27,500	4	2%
Good Neighbor Free Medical Clinic of Beaufort	$19,500	3	1%
Born to Read Inc	$15,000	3	9%
Thumbs Up Inc	$12,000	4	4%
Help of Beaufort	$11,000	3	3%
Mirasol Health Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Lean Ensemble Theater	$5,500	2	2%
The Heritage Library Foundation Inc	$4,500	2	1%
Backpack Buddies of Greater Bluffton and Hardeeville	$2,775	1	2%
Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Circle of Hope Ministries Inc	$2,500	1	3%
Hilton Head Island Safe Harbourinc	$1,200	2	n/a
Med-I-Assist Inc	$1,000	1	n/a
Brain Gain of Hilton Head Island Inc	$600	1	n/a

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($460k), not named here.

The Bargain Box supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC87.6× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Heritage Classic Foundation · Wexford Foundation · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc · Palmetto Electric Trust · United Way of the Lowcountry · Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc · Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset · The Watterson Family Foundation · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528

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.

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About The Bargain Box

How much does The Bargain Box give?: The Bargain Box reported 33 itemized grants totaling $509,600, out of $574,334 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Bargain Box fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (11%).
Who are The Bargain Box's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Children's Center Inc ($343k), Hopeful Horizons ($306k), Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc ($280k).
Does The Bargain Box fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bargain Box?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Heritage Classic Foundation.
Where is The Bargain Box based?: The Bargain Box is based in SC.