· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $454k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $42,500 |
| HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT | $35,000 |
| HOPEFUL HORIZONS | $35,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE HILTON HEAD ISLAND | $30,000 |
| COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $26,000 |
| LOW COUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS | $19,500 |
| HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $19,000 |
| HILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION ASSOCIATION | $18,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND | $17,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION | $15,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $15,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY GULLAH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $15,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $629k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
52 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $343k · revenue +49%
- HHHOPEFUL HORIZONS9× · 2017–2025 · $306k · revenue +42%
- HHHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TCTECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE LOWCOUNTRYone grant, 2017 · $13k
- TFTCL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
- HCH&H COALLITION - BACKPACK BUDDIES OF HILTON HEADone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
To deliver nutritious meals and reduce isolation for elderly, ill, disabled, and homebound individuals in bluffton and hilton head, on a temporary or long-term basis.
To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
Provide free medical care for those without resources to pay in the Charleston Tricounty area.
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.
Lowcountry Veterans Home provides transitional housing and individualized support for homeless veterans, working to restore stability, dignity, and independence. Through case management, peer support, transportation, and strong community…
To prevent domestic animal overpopulation through spaying and neutering programs, to place animals into proper homes, to educate the public on responsible pet ownership, and assist at the animal shelter.
The mission is to feed the hungry and eliminate hunger in our community. last year, we fed over 101,000 adults in our general feeding program and nourished 32,644 children in our childrens hunger initiative program (chip). every person who…
To provide one week dream vacations for families with terminally ill children on hilton head isalnd, sc
To provide affordable housing for low-income families in darlington county, sc
To eliminate food insecurity and to fight hunger by providing access to nutritional food and meals to those who need our services on Hatteras Island.
Helping Hands is a crisis food pantry providing groceries and resources to Lowcountry families facing food insecurity.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 65 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.
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Outreach Connection ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Educational Excellence ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND RECREATION ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER COALITION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES ON HORSEBACK ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Heroes of the Low Country ↗
- Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lowcountry Gullah Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NAMI LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Bluffton Community Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY AUTISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bargain Box funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bargain Box. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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