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· Public charity

Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Helping kentuckians find pathways out of poverty with a vision to end poverty in kentucky.

$5.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$6.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$209kHousing & Shelter$75k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $67,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,460,597 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,393,097 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$265M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DARE TO CARE INC$50,000
ST JOHN CENTER$10,000
KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$7,500
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%PALMETTO GOODWILL: $10k → 12%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 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
Goodwill Industries Inc

Goodwill changes lives and strengthens communities through education, training and work. goodwill strives to increase self sufficiency of its participants through vocational evaluation, training and offering employment opportunities to…

Employment
2
Goodwill Industries of Tulsa Inc

Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.

Employment
3
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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4
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
5
Goodwill Industries of the Valleys Inc

Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.

Employment
6
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan Inc

Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

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7
Goodwill Industries of the Valley Works

Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.

Human Services
8
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
9
Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma Inc

We help people overcome challenges to employment.

Employment
10
Goodwill Industries of the Summit Inc

Goodwill industries assists persons with disabilities and those who are vocationally disadvantaged to achieve full participation and integration into society through the power of work.

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11
Goodwill Industries Serving Southeast Nebraska Inc

Willing workers employed and community resources maximized.

Employment
12
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Elevating people by eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Industries - Big Bend Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dare to Care 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOODWILL KY SUPPORT CORPORATION: $6,072,195 · EmploymentGOODWILL KY SUPPORT CORPORATION+2 more: $30,000 · EmploymentIndividual grant recipient: $139,303 · OtherADDICTION RECOVERY CARE LLC: $75,000 · OtherST JOHN CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES - BIG BEND INC: $10,000 · OtherFLORIDA GOODWILL ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · OtherINTERAPT: $9,000 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherDARE TO CARE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsPALMETTO GOODWILL: $10,000 · Human Services
Employment$6,102,195Other$260,803Food & Nutrition$50,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOODWILL KY SUPPORT CORPORATION: $6,072,195 over 2y, 94% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO GOODWILL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF HAWAII INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES - BIG BEND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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