Texas · Nonprofit
Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc
Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,780,264 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $56M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc does
Mission
Goodwill industries of fort worth provides 23 economically and environmentally sustainable programs to teach, train, employ, and empower people with disabilities, people with disadvantages including poverty and lack of education, our veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals, the homeless and at-risk youth. With over 300 formal partnerships with for-profit, not-for-profit, and governmental organizations, goodwill serves the local north texas community through 25 retail stores and 18 attended donation centers, providing job resource centers in 3 counties, and employment services in 6 counties. Goodwill works diligently with those who have difficulty achieving success in the traditional work environment. As our area's largest employer of people with disabilities and disadvantages, goodwill offers employment at area retail stores, providing specialized job training and career development skills to cultivate each employee.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Industrial Contracts & Retail Stores: As our areas largest employer of people with disabilities and disadvantages, Goodwill offers employment at area retail stores to sheltered and other persons with disabilities, providing specialized job training and career development skills to cultivate each employee. Contracts with the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Army Reserve and the Federal Center employ individuals with disabilities, turning lives of dependence into lives of independence.
$42,054,089 spent$33,602,455 earned by the program78% of program spendingRehabilitation: Goodwills programs and services include vocational and rehabilitation services to people with disabilities and disadvantages, such as: Work Adjustment Training (WAT) - Paid work experience for those with barriers to employment; Work Experience Program (WEP); Vocational Adjustment Training (VAT); Vocational Evaluation; Supported Employment; Camp Independence - Summer camp for transitional students; Summer Earn & Learn - Paid work experience and soft skills training for students with disabilities; and Project SEARCH Real life work experience for youth with disabilities.
$7,959,182 spent15% of program spendingHousing & Occupancy: Goodwill provides facilities for sheltered and other persons with disabilities to learn job skills and prepare to be productive, including: S.T.A.R.S. - Unique life skills program for adults with significant or multiple disabilities; Job Resource Centers - Free computer access and job skills training and placement assistance at five locations; Goodwill Staffing Services - Temporary employment service for individuals with barriers to employment; Adult Literacy classes; North Texas Institute for Career Development (NTI) Provides courses in Hospitality, CDL and Online IT: A+ Certification and Online Certified Medical Administrative Assistant; GoodwillWorks Employment services for the homeless; E2 - High school equivalency preparation and paid work experience for 16-24 year olds; and VetWorthy Employment services for military vets and their families.
$2,785,093 spent5% of program spendingCommunity Relations
$1,405,435 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,203,799.
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 $55M to $69M (+26%).
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.
45% of Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth 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. 4 of the last 8 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
David Cox
President/CEO
Board chair
Patrick d Gotcher
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $57k → $179k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 Industries of Fort Worth 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 of Fort Worth Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
98% 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 of Fort Worth Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 52% · 2019 54% · 2020 79% · 2021 99% · 2022 83% · 2023 43% — 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
57% of Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
63% of Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth 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 $5.8M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 of Fort Worth Inc is better cushioned than half of the 441 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 3 related entities
- Goodwill Industrial Services of FW Inc · exempt
- Goodwill Industries FW Foundation Inc · exempt
- Goodwill Airport Freeway Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc?
- Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc (Texas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,780,264 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $15,780,264 in grants to Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST 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 Industries of Fort Worth Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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