Georgia · Nonprofit
GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC
GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,696,936 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $44M
What Goodwill Ind of the Southern Rivers Inc does
Mission
Since 2006, goodwill of the southern rivers (goodwillsr) has intensely focused on expanding its mission to serve more people in more communities. When we began this journey, we provided services in four facilities in columbus and albany, georgia.today, individuals living in and near lagrange, newnan, albany, carrollton, columbus, tifton and valdosta georgia as well as auburn/opelika and phenix city, alabama have access to services provided by goodwillsr in nine facilities. Our mission is changing lives through the power of work. Our retail stores are foundational to our sustainability and delivery of the mission throughout our 50-county territory in georgia and alabama. The sale of donated items yields the dollars to maintain the store and fund most of the training, placement and financial classes we offer. The training programs offered through our training centers and free career services in career centers throughout our territory help ease poverty and unemployment while positively im
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The sale of gently used donations is the primary source through which goodwillsr funds its services. These sales represent nearly 95% of gross revenue. During 2025, the organization provided employment opportunities for 278 individuals through its retail operations. Additionally, nine retail locations provided mission-related services on-site, resulting in 36,403 people served and 6,090 job connections. In addition to the store locations, goodwillsr had 35 donation sites located throughout the 50-county territory in georgia and alabama. Goodwillsr collected gently used household goods from 513,288 donors, diverting 8,423,760 pounds from community landfills. More information on goodwillsr's accomplishments is located throughout our website at www.goodwillsr.org.
$42,774,704 spent100% of program spendingDuring 2025, mission services aided 36,403 individuals and made 6,090 jobconnections. The organization assisted individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages through a host of services located in goodwillsr career centers and training facilities including: work evaluation, work adjustment, supported employment, work experience, custodial training and certification, retail training and certification, summer enrichment, ged preparation and test funding, english language learner classes, in-school supports, community vouchers, post-secondary educational supports, restaurant food service training and certification, and returning citizens training. All programs and services are provided at no cost to the client through a combination of funders and grants. Responding to an increasing hispanic population in the territory, the goodwillsr hispanic services program offers free services based on the unique challenges of the hispanic community, with bilingual career centers located in columbus, newnan, and valdosta, georgia. Hispanic services aided 2,888 clients in 2025. Programs include bilingual workshops, job fairs, and english as a second language (esl) classes. The program also…
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,774,704.
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 $36M to $66M (+87%).
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.
1% of GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS 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. 0 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
Henry Warden
President & CEO
Board chair
Weezie Wingo Motzel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $73k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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
GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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
33% of GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 16% 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
94% of GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS 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. Of the $690k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC is better cushioned than half of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $524k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$524k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Power Works Industries Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC?
- GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,696,936 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $10,696,936 in grants to GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOODWILL IND OF THE SOUTHERN RIVERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 19 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