How much does The Thrift Shop give?

The Thrift Shop reported 23 itemized grants totaling $157,500, out of $675,003 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Thrift Shop fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (13%).

Who are The Thrift Shop's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Early Learning Center ($63k), Alpine Legal Services Inc ($62k), Aspen Youth Center ($52k).

Does The Thrift Shop fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Thrift Shop?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Arches Foundation.

Where is The Thrift Shop based?

The Thrift Shop is based in CO.

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Colorado · Public charity

The Thrift Shop

The organization's mission is to provide funds for local civic and educational projects and to also assist local students with higher education needs.

$675k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Itemized grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 29%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $158k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $6,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $9,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 31; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $2.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Thrift Shop funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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	23	$158k	9%
FY2024	21	$141k	29%
FY2023	11	$73k	9%
FY2022	6	$41k	0%
FY2020	5	$40k	0%
FY2019	24	$192k	4%
FY2018	31	$259k	19%
FY2017	28	$213k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$253kArts & Culture$206kHealth$141kHuman Services$117kEnvironment$105kYouth Development$84kCrime & Legal$81kCommunity Improvement$36kOther$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 Early Learning Center	$63,000	7	1%
Alpine Legal Services Inc	$62,000	7	2%
Aspen Youth Center	$51,500	7	3%
Carbondale Arts	$47,000	6	1%
Family Resource Center of the Roaring Fork Schools	$45,000	6	n/a
English in Action	$44,500	7	1%
Summit54	$42,500	6	1%
The Art Base	$37,500	5	2%
Response - Help for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault	$37,500	6	2%
Forest Conservancy	$37,000	5	4%

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All grantees of The Thrift Shop by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Early Learning Center	$63,000	7	1%
Alpine Legal Services Inc	$62,000	7	2%
Aspen Youth Center	$51,500	7	3%
Carbondale Arts	$47,000	6	1%
Family Resource Center of the Roaring Fork Schools	$45,000	6	n/a
English in Action	$44,500	7	1%
Summit54	$42,500	6	1%
The Art Base	$37,500	5	2%
Response - Help for Survivors of Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault	$37,500	6	2%
Forest Conservancy	$37,000	5	4%
Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc	$32,500	3	0%
A Way Out Inc	$32,000	5	1%
Youthentity	$32,000	5	1%
Wilderness Workshop	$32,000	5	1%
Roaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers	$31,500	5	2%
Aspen Homeless Shelter	$30,000	2	7%
Aspen Junior Hockey Inc	$30,000	3	2%
Pitkin County	$27,000	3	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$25,000	1	n/a
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet	$25,000	4	0%
Aspen Hope Center	$24,250	3	1%
Hospice of the Valley Inc	$22,650	2	0%
Manaus	$22,500	3	5%
Windwalkers Equine Assisted Learning And	$22,000	3	2%
Community Health Services Inc	$20,500	3	1%
Valley Settlement	$19,000	3	0%
Music Associates of Aspen Inc	$18,000	3	0%
Roaring Fork Public Radio Inc	$18,000	3	1%
Compass for Lifelong Discovery	$18,000	3	0%
Blue Lake Preschool Inc	$17,000	2	0%
The Aspen Institute Inc	$16,500	3	0%
Aspen School District	$15,500	2	n/a
Aspen to Parachute Dental Health Alliance	$14,250	2	7%
Aspen Science Center	$13,250	2	2%
Roaring Fork Conservancy	$12,000	2	0%
Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc	$12,000	2	1%
Red Brick Council for the Arts	$10,000	1	5%
Colorado Mesa University Foundation	$7,500	1	0%
The Arts Campus at Willits	$6,000	1	n/a
Montana State University Foundation Inc	$5,625	1	0%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Thrift Shop supplied at peak.

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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 35.

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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.

Aspen Community FoundationCO76.5× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aspen Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Arches Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Aspen Business Center Foundation · Castaways Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · The Thendara Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Brady Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc

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 Thrift Shop

How much does The Thrift Shop give?: The Thrift Shop reported 23 itemized grants totaling $157,500, out of $675,003 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Thrift Shop fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (13%).
Who are The Thrift Shop's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Early Learning Center ($63k), Alpine Legal Services Inc ($62k), Aspen Youth Center ($52k).
Does The Thrift Shop fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Thrift Shop?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aspen Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation, Arches Foundation.
Where is The Thrift Shop based?: The Thrift Shop is based in CO.