CLAYTON, Mo. – A judge has awarded most of the more than $14,000 found in a box of Christmas decorations at a St. Louis-area Goodwill store to a woman who said it was inadvertently given to the charity by mistake after an estate sale at her parents’ home and was not a donation.

The St. Louis County judge on Monday awarded all but $979 of the $14,505 discovered in May to Renee Stout, a Webster Groves woman who was one of at least 15 people who tried to claim the cash, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

The rest of the money will go toward paying Goodwill’s legal fees.