The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc
Hilton Head Island, SC · EIN 46-1381623. Reported 128 grants totalling $2,454,304 to 56 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for community improvement (NTEE S12).
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,700. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,005 and the largest $105,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Lukes Church Missions | Hilton Head Island, SC | $389,999 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jericho Ministries Inc | Sheboygan, WI | $186,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sandalwood Community Food Pantry | Hilton Head, SC | $178,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Character Restoration Initiative | Allendale, SC | $128,603 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Operation Patriots Fob Inc | Bluffton, SC | $115,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Others 5000 | $104,471 | 3 | 3 | 2024 | |
| Love and Grace Ministries - Haiti | Bluffton, SC | $92,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | Kansas City, MO | $91,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Antioch Educational Center | Ridgeland, SC | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project | Hilton Head, SC | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Global Teams International Inc | Winter Spgs, FL | $62,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Heroes of the Low Country | Bluffton, SC | $57,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Missionary Ventures | Orlando, FL | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Childrens Center Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $54,538 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pregnancy Center and Clinic of Low Country Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $51,900 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Grace Community Church | Hilton Head, SC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Real Champions | Ridgeland, SC | $47,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Life | Colorado Spgs, CO | $44,846 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of the Lowcountry Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $44,100 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Lukes Church of Hilton Head Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $41,505 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Help of Beaufort | Port Royal, SC | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Volunteers in Medicine Clinic | Hilton Head, SC | $32,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Memory Matters | Hilton Head, SC | $30,880 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Valentine Project | Hilton Head Island, SC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bluffton Self Help Inc | Bluffton, SC | $28,545 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Bluffton, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Agape Family Life Center Inc | Hardeeville, SC | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Anglican Diocese of Biharamulo | Taylors, SC | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pockets Full of Sunshine | Hilton Head, SC | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lamb Institute | Mt Pleasant, SC | $17,499 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Wineskins Missionary Network | Elon, NC | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Care Africa | Louisville, KY | $15,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Stephens Outreach Food Bank | Ridgeland, SC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Stephens United Methodist Church Preschool | Burke, VA | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bluffton Gullah Cultural Heritage Center | Bluffton, SC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Valentine Project Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Promise of the Lowcountry Inc | Bluffton, SC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Lukes Foundation of Hilton Head Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $11,477 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Helpings | Hilton Head, SC | $11,176 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Casas Por Cristo | El Paso, TX | $10,852 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Foundation for Suicide Prevention | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| School Growth Foundation | Alpharetta, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shield Ministries | N Charleston, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Meals on Wheels Bluffton Hilton Head Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Osprey Village Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Low Country Legal Volunteers | Bluffton, SC | $7,068 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Helping Hand Center | Pineland, SC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Helping Hand Center Inc | Pineland, SC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mirasol Health Inc | Bluffton, SC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hilton Head Heroes Inc | Hilton Head, SC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nams Network Inc | Georgetown, SC | $6,390 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Programs for Exceptional People | Bluffton, SC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Under One Roof Services Inc | Beaufort, SC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lowcountry Legal Volunteers | Bluffton, SC | $5,975 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Love House Learning Academy | Beaufort, SC | $5,320 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bluffton Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine | Bluffton, SC | $5,060 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
30 of 56 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 56 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | $459,330 | $11,250 |
| 2022 | 27 | $597,662 | $12,500 |
| 2023 | 34 | $647,016 | $12,700 |
| 2024 | 39 | $750,296 | $13,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
78% of its giving went to organizations in South Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,700 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in South Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Church Mouse Thrift Shop Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 78 Arrow Road Suite G, Hilton Head Island, SC, 29928.
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