Tennessee · Nonprofit
Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc
Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,137,894 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($3,222,811). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc does
Mission
Goodwill Industries of the Greater Chattanooga Area's (GIGCA) mission is to help people transform potential into opportunity. The Organization does this by eliminating barriers to opportunity and helping people in need reach their full potential through learning and the power of work. To fulfill this mission, the Organization provides a variety of education, training, and employment programs and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Donated Goods and Retail Program Services: Goodwill Industries of the Greater Chattanooga Area utilizes its resale strategies to provide on the job training to persons with disabilities and other barriers to employment such as multi-generational poverty, history of incarceration, limited education, and no work experience. Goodwill accepts clothing and other household goods from the public and sells these donations in 17 Goodwill community-based stores. Revenue from the sale of these goods goes directly toward supporting and growing critical local programs and job placement services.
$18,936,424 spent$24,207,565 earned by the program94% of program spendingWorkforce Development Program Services: Goodwill Industries of the Greater Chattanooga Area provides education and career services, as well as job placement opportunities and post-employment support to individuals with disabilities and other barriers to employment so that they can find and keep good jobs. Individuals can achieve greater levels of self-sufficiency and economic success through Goodwill's family strengthening and workforce development services - such as employment training and education, work experience, employment retention services, financial literacy, digital skills and other training programs. Goodwill programs strengthen communities and families and promote independence and dignity for the people who need it most.
$1,122,248 spent$2,500 earned by the program6% of program spendingWorkforce Development Program Services (Continued): Accomplishments include: 100+ years of work in the community, 2,141 persons served through employment, training, and supportive services, $12.83 per hr., average job placement rate, more than 10.1 million pounds of material diverted from landfills through sales and salvage operations in 2025. More than 85 cents of every dollar earned funds Goodwill Industries of the Greater Chattanooga Area's Programs and Services and 4.81/5 approval rating from participants, parents, counselors and employment and training community partners.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,058,672.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $23M (+58%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 18% · 2021 12% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Gena Weldon
President & CEO
Board chair
Jim Catanzaro
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $586k → $745k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Chattanooga Goodwill Industries 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 43% · 2019 87% · 2020 78% · 2021 90% · 2022 73% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Chattanooga Goodwill Industries 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc?
- Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,137,894 to it, the largest being CWI WORKS INC ($3,222,811). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $4,137,894 in grants to Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc?
- CWI WORKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,222,811 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chattanooga Goodwill Industries Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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