· Public charity
The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc
To provide usable donated goods to the people in beaufort and jasper county, sc at a reasonable price or free for those in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $750,296 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $785,296 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $35,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $530k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKES PRESCHOOL | $68,000 |
| CHARACTER RESTORATION INITIATIVE | $50,319 |
| SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $45,000 |
| JERICHO MINISTERIES | $38,400 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $36,500 |
| OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC | $35,000 |
| VALENTINE PROJECT | $30,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $27,771 |
| OTHERS 5000 | $25,420 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOWCOUN | $25,000 |
| GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| HEROES OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $24,000 |
| POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE | $23,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $22,538 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JMJERICHO MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $293k · revenue +158%
- CRCHARACTER RESTORATION INTITIATIVE7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +99% · 85% of their budget
- SCSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY3× · 2021–2024 · $178k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CACARE AFRICA INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -16%
- COCIRCLE OF HOPE MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +59%
- BGBluffton Gullah Cultural Heritage Centerone grant, 2023 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County (HFHBC) is a community-level Habitat for Humanity organization that acts in partnership with and on behalf of Habitat for Humanity International. HFHBC seeks to put Gods love into action by brings…
HOPE Missions exists for all who are marginalized and living in poverty to experience acceptance in Christ, live in sustainable housing, and joyfully engage in supportive community.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
Dorchester habitat for humanity, inc.'s ("dhfh") mission statement is "putting god's love into action by bringing people together building homes and hope." dhfh was founded in 1993 and has built seventy-five (75) homes and three (3)…
To offer a christ centered way out of a seemingly hopeless situation for victims of domestic violence.
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 provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.
Collleton Fuller Center work in partenrship with God and People everywhere from all walks of life to develope decent communities. We will establish collaborate efforts with any and all agencies and individuals who can play a role in…
Helping families fight homelessness and find living hope.
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…
Safe Shelter - The LHWS provides unhoused single women and unhoused women with children safe shelter by providing onsite security at all three shelter locations. Keeping these shelters up to date with their proprety maintenance and basic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of the Lowcountry and the most unlike its peers is Inter-America Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JERICHO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER RESTORATION INTITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds LOVE AND GRACE MINISTRIES-HAITI ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER AND CLINIC OF THE LOW COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Heroes of the Low Country ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds REAL CHAMPIONS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OF BEAUFORT ↗
- Who funds Agape Family Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES FOUNDATION OF HILTON HEAD INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD REGIONAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LAMB INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HELPINGS ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD ↗
- Who funds NEW WINESKINS MISSIONARY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CARE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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 · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Bargain Box · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Lowcountry · Hilton Head Firefighters Association Inc · The Watterson Family Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.