Maryland · Nonprofit
The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc
The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $216k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5
- Net assets
- $71k
What The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc does
Mission
Volunteers from 11 local churches receive clothing and houseware donations to sell to the public. Funds are used to help support the 11 churches 3 high school scholarships and 8 local charities to promote humanity within their organizations so they may pay it forward.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
8 - Charitable organizations Frederick Rescue Mission Gabriel Project Great & Small Therapeutic Riding Helping Hands of Poolesville Poplar Spring Sanctuary Shady Grove Pregnancy Center UMCVFD WUMCO. We provide cash donations and excess clothing and merchandise to help meet their needs. See Schedule O
$0 spentWe are operated by 11 local churches. Distributions of excess cash is distributed equally to the churches for charitable and humanity purposes. See Schedule O
$0 spent3 Scholarships to local students that are about to graduate from 12th grade. They need to write an essay on being charitable and humanity.
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programFrederick Rescue Mission ~ Donation
$0 spent$5,000 earned by the programGabriel Project ~ Donation
$0 spent$5,000 earned by the programGreat & Small Therapeutic Riding ~ Donation
$0 spent$3,000 earned by the programHelping Hands of Poolesville ~ Donation
$0 spent$5,000 earned by the programPopular Spring Sanctuary ~ Donation
$0 spent$1,000 earned by the programShady Grove Pregnancy ~ Donation
$0 spent$5,000 earned by the programUpper Montgomery County VFD ~ Donation
$0 spent$1,000 earned by the programWUMCO ~ Donation
$0 spent$6,000 earned by the programBarnesville Baptist Church ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programHosanna Community Church ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programJerusalem Baptist Church ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programLiving World Bible Fellowship ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programMemorial United Methodist ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programOur Lady of the Presentation ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programPoolesville Baptist Church ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programPoolesville Presbyterian ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programSt. Marys Church and Shrine ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programSt. Peters Episcopal Church ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the programWest Montgomery United Methodist ~ Donation
$0 spent$9,000 earned by the program
The 22 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $73k to $59k (−19%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
3% of The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc?
- The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5 in grants to The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Friendly Thrift Shop Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing