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The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc at a glance

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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.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$873kEducation$584kInternational$266kFood & Nutrition$256kCrime & Legal$248kPhilanthropy$233kHealth$224kHuman Services$207kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $113,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $147,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $104k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUNG LIFE$23,000
ST LUKES CHURCH MISSIONS$20,000
ST LUKES PRESCHOOL$18,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLE$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE$15,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$13,000
OTHERS 5000$9,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $10k → 10%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $8k → 17%LOVE & GRACE MINISTRIES: $30k → 6%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $10k → 10%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $8k → 17%LOVE & GRACE MINISTRIES: $22k → 6%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $8k → 10%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $8k → 17%LOVE & GRACE MINISTRIES: $22k → 6%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $6k → 10%LOVING GRACE MINISTRIES: $18k → 6%AGAPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $6k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $23k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 10%HELPING HAND CENTER: $7k → 17%HELPING HAND CENTER: $7k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH CONNECTION: $8k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY: $12k → 10%PROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $6k → 10%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $6k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
PA
NJ
CA
MO
KY
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 38 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
24

Total granted

$3.5M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
0%

Still filing today

71%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionEducationCrime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JM
    JERICHO MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $293k · revenue +158%
  • CR
    CHARACTER RESTORATION INTITIATIVE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +99% · 85% of their budget
  • SC
    SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $178k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • HH
    HILTON HEAD REGIONAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • PF
    POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE
    one grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue 0%
  • CA
    CARE AFRICA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -16%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Habitat for Humanity of Berkeley County

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…

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2
Hope Missions of the Upstate

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.

Religion
3
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

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…

Human Services
4
House of Grace

To offer a christ centered way out of a seemingly hopeless situation for victims of domestic violence.

Human Services
5
House of Hope North Charleston

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Dorchester Habitat for Humanity Inc

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)…

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7
Good Friends of the Lowcountry

To provide emergency assistance to low income individuals and families in the lowcountry of south carolina.

Philanthropy
8
Lowcountry Veterans Home

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…

Health
9
The Life House Women's Shelter Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Hope South Florida Inc

Providing hope for the homeless and hurting through housing, case management, support services and strategic alliances.

Human Services
11
Colleton County Fuller Center for Housing Inc

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…

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12
Beyond Housing

We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of the Lowcountry; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 63 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LUKE'S CHURCH: $626,018 · OtherST LUKE'S CHURCHOTHERS 5000: $489,949 · OtherOTHERS 5000MISSIONARY VENTURES: $115,868 · OtherGLOBAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL INC: $92,600 · OtherANTIOCH EDUCATIONAL CENTER: $82,500 · OtherTHE HERITAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · OtherPREGNANCY CENTER AND CLINIC OF THE LOW COUNTRY INC: $90,801 · OtherHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $82,000 · Other+28 more: $576,899 · Other+28 moreLOVE AND GRACE MINISTRIES-HAITI: $92,000 · Human ServicesLOVE AND G…THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $75,538 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDR…MEMORY MATTERS: $49,663 · Human ServicesMEMORY MAT…HELP OF BEAUFORT: $40,000 · Human ServicesHELP OF BE…Agape Family Life Center Inc: $30,000 · Human ServicesAgape Fami…SECOND HELPINGS: $21,674 · Human ServicesSECOND HEL…HELPING HAND CENTER INC: $14,000 · Human Services+5 more: $42,000 · Human Services+5 moreJERICHO MINISTRIES INC: $292,850 · ReligionJERICHO M…LAMB INSTITUTE: $23,499 · ReligionLAMB INST…+2 more: $12,890 · ReligionOPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC: $115,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $107,600 · PhilanthropyST LUKES FOUNDATION OF HILTON HEAD INC: $25,477 · PhilanthropyHILTON HEAD HEROES INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $128,425 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $67,846 · Youth DevelopmentREAL CHAMPIONS INC: $47,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHARACTER RESTORATION INTITIATIVE: $210,066 · Crime & LegalCIRCLE OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS: $13,043 · Crime & LegalSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $178,300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,261,635Human Services$364,875Religion$329,239Philanthropy$268,077Youth Development$243,771Crime & Legal$238,109Food & Nutrition$178,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJERICHO MINISTRIES INC: $292,850 over 8y, 17% of budgetCHARACTER RESTORATION INTITIATIVE: $210,066 over 7y, 85% of budgetSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $178,300 over 3y, 17% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $128,425 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC: $115,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry: $107,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetLOVE AND GRACE MINISTRIES-HAITI: $92,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER AND CLINIC OF THE LOW COUNTRY INC: $90,801 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetHILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC: $82,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $75,538 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $67,846 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHeroes of the Low Country: $57,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $51,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORY MATTERS: $49,663 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetREAL CHAMPIONS INC: $47,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE VALENTINE PROJECT INC: $42,500 over 2y, 33% of budgetHELP OF BEAUFORT: $40,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD: $32,350 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetAgape Family Life Center Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC: $28,545 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST LUKES FOUNDATION OF HILTON HEAD INC: $25,477 over 3y, 20% of budgetHILTON HEAD REGIONAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAMB INSTITUTE: $23,499 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPOCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE: $23,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS: $21,674 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILTON HEAD HEROES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNEW WINESKINS MISSIONARY NETWORK: $16,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCARE AFRICA INC: $15,400 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCIRCLE OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHELPING HAND CENTER INC: $14,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LEGAL VOLUNTEERS: $13,043 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY: $12,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCASAS POR CRISTO: $10,852 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHIELD MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNeighborhood Outreach Connection: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOSPREY VILLAGE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMIRASOL HEALTH INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LITERACY CENTER: $6,766 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMS NETWORK INC: $6,390 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNDER ONE ROOF INC: $6,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE HOUSE LEARNING ACADEMY: $5,320 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $5,060 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 JERICHO MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARACTER RESTORATION INTITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • 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 THE VALENTINE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HELP OF BEAUFORT ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD ↗
  • 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 NEW WINESKINS MISSIONARY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CARE AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗

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 …Coastal Community Fou…Heritage Classic Foun…Wexford FoundationPalmetto Electric Tru…The Bargain BoxThe Berkeley Hall Cha…United Way of the Low…Hilton Head Firefight…The Watterson Family …Central Carolina Comm…The Douglas & Tonyia …
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC68.4× affinity31 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 · 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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