Tennessee · Nonprofit
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,312,219 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,000,000). 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
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $43M
What Goodwill Industries - Knoxville Inc does
Mission
Goodwill industries-knoxville, inc. (the organization") is a nonprofit corporation. Our mission at goodwill industries-knoxville, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is changing lives and strengthening families by helping people reach their full potential through community-relevant job training, work experiences, and career services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Good prospects: good prospects assists clients in reaching goals toward achieving stability and self-sufficiency by connecting them with necessary resources and services. Digital skills training: goodwill industries - knoxville, inc. Offers an array of virtual and in-person training programs designed to enhance the digital skills needed to compete in today's workforce. Through our grow with google grant for justice impacted individuals and technical programs, we are able to offer northstar certifications in basic computer skills, internet basics, email usage, windows 10, social media, information literacy, internet safety, creating a resume, job searching, applying online, microsoft and google apps. 63 individuals received digital literacy services.certified nurse assistant training: the cna program prepares students to sit for the nurse aide training (nat) state certification exam and become employed as certified nurse assistants. 135 clients were served in 2025.work adjustment for adults: paid work opportunities for participants to gain general work-related skills valuable in any environment. This program is ideal for individuals that have never worked, have been unsuccessful in…
$1,264,099 spentof which $12,636 as grants$160,163 earned by the program6% of program spendingDonated goods and retail program services: goodwill industries knoxville, inc. 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 goodwill community-based stores. Revenue from the sale of these goods goes directly toward supporting and growing critical local programs and job placement services.239,917 donations were received in 2025.
$18,096,827 spent$13,537,599 earned by the program84% of program spendingContracts: goodwill has contracts with private businesses and governmental agencies to provide various goods and services. This aids in work adjustment and skills training, which are integral to the rehabilitation process. Contracts also help to provide paid training opportunities and federal and state programs that focus on providing jobs for individuals with disabilities.100+ employers partnered with goodwill to place east tennesseans into jobs.
$2,125,132 spent$2,469,203 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,486,058.
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 $38M to $45M (+17%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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
Elizabeth Nother
President & CEO
Board chair
Dr Amy Skinner Lpcmhsp
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $64k → $11k.
3 of 6 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $23k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Goodwill Foundation of Knoxville Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE 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
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 59% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE 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 $297k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M 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 INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $589k on record.
- Department of Commerce$295k
- Department of Defense$294k
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 INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,312,219 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,000,000). 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 INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $5,312,219 in grants to GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - KNOXVILLE 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 6 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