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Thriftology Inc at a glance

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Thriftology Inc

A non-profit thrift store with a mission to serve at risk children and orphans in our community, our nation and our world.

$256k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$69k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$323kReligion$227kYouth Development$134kInternational$22kHealth$13kCommunity Improvement$8k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $245,684, the rows itemized in this filing. The $256,460 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,776 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $129k
$13,901
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PURE GIFT OF GOD$68,500
GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL$60,000
AIM RIGHT MINISTRIES$37,000
CHRISTIAN CHILDRES HOME$32,000
BRIDGE A LIFE$13,901
SACRED GROUND$13,333
BRANCHES WORLDWIDE$7,700
OHUDDLE$6,750
SAFE HARBOR OHIO INC$6,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $60k → 9%CHRISTIAN CHILDRES HOME: $32k → 10%GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL: $40k → 9%CHRISTIAN CHILDRES HOME: $24k → 10%CHRISTIAN CHILDRES HOME: $24k → 10%BRANCHES WORLDWIDE: $8k → 10%SACRED GROUND: $13k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$700k · 6 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$700k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • PG
    PURE GIFT OF GOD
    5× · 2018–2024 · $237k · revenue +139%
  • GW
    GATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +5%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SG
    SACRED GROUND
    one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
  • BW
    BRANCHES WORLDWIDE
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR OHIO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
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
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
2
Gospel Care Collective

Provide resources for global orphan care

Human Services
3
Safe Haven Counseling Associates in

Biblical counseling

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4
Arborbrook Christian Academy

Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

Education
5
Redemption Ridge

Redemption Ridge is dedicated to bringing hope and healing to young girls rescued from the horrendous world of sex trafficking. We are committed to redeeming lives, restoring dignity and placing purpose in hearts of these precious children.

—
6
Hilo Ministries Inc

To be an organization where people are excited to assist in the love and care of the orphan and those in foster care, as well as providing temporary housing and training for those in the worldwide missionary field.

Human Services
7
Thrive Ministries Inc

Faith-based education and care of children

Education
8
Oak Ridge Ministries Inc

The organization is a faith-based christian character building ministry geared toward reaching men who are broken from drug and alcohol addictions.

Religion
9
International Christian Partners Llc

Childrens Home and Ministry in India

Religion
10
Trinity Oaks Christian Academy

Trinity oaks christian academny partners with the christian home and church in the training of children maximizing their potential to lead christian lives according to biblical standards.

Education
11
Idols Aside Ministries Inc

Bringing hope to the fatherless through the heart and life changing gospel of Jesus Christ.

Religion
12
Reach Out Ministries Inc

Spiritual awakening and training youth leaders.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohuddle Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Safe Harbor Ohio Inc. 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

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PURE GIFT OF GOD: $236,500 · ReligionPURE GIFT OF GODAIM RIGHT MINISTRIES: $227,400 · ReligionAIM RIGHT MINISTRIESGATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesGATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INCCHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHI…SACRED GROUND: $13,333 · Human ServicesSACRED GROUNDBRANCHES WORLDWIDE: $7,700 · Human Services+1 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesOHUDDLE INCORPORATED: $34,150 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGE A LIFE INC: $21,901 · International
Religion$463,900Human Services$207,533Youth Development$34,150International$21,901

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPURE GIFT OF GOD: $236,500 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetAIM RIGHT MINISTRIES: $227,400 over 7y, 15% of budgetGATOR WILDERNESS CAMP SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF OHIO INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOHUDDLE INCORPORATED: $34,150 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetBRIDGE A LIFE INC: $21,901 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSACRED GROUND: $13,333 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBRANCHES WORLDWIDE: $7,700 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAFE HARBOR OHIO INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Thriftology Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thriftology Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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