Michigan · Nonprofit
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,085,327 to it, the largest being DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ($2,807,233). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit does
Mission
To build pathways to independence through personal development and the power of work.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Skill building services are vocational, work or volunteer activities provided daily (six hours per day, five days per week) in alignment with each individual's person centered plan of services and coordinated with other appropriate services or therapies identified in the plan of support. Services may serve to reinforce skills taught in school, therapy or other settings. Target population are individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities.skill building services are designed to assist individuals with intellectual/development disabilities to increase their economic self-sufficiency and/or engage in meaningful activities such as education, training and/or volunteering. These services provide knowledge and specialized skill development and/or support. Number of persons served - 188 detroit skill building program. 75 persons served participated in paid transitional (time limited) work experience in goodwill's commercial services to develop appropriate work behaviors and soft skills for community competitive employment. 100% of program trainees developed a person centered plan or vocational plan for personal, social, vocational, and community integration.
$20,143,251 spent$3,010,528 earned by the program65% of program spendingFlip the script safer communities stronger families and empowerment services. Provide employment and training services for men and women diversionary population ages 16-29 years of age. In collaboration with the michigan department of corrections and other community stakeholders with the primary goal is to promote public safety by reducing recidivism of former offenders engaged in productive life, educational, social and employment activities. The flip the script empowerment program prepares men and women ages 16-30 to enter the workforce and maintain meaningful employment. The program is designed to help young men and women, ages, 16-29, who are low-to- medium risk offenders to overcome adversity and barriers to employment. Service components include career counseling, life and social skills develoopment, computer training, cognitive thinking instruction, conflict resolution strategies, financial literacy, basic education learning and ged preparation, job placement and job retention services. Goodwill's flip the script men and women's empowerment program prepares men and women ages 18-30 for non-traditional careers in the skills, building and construction industry with an…
$2,798,626 spent$2,360,493 earned by the program9% of program spendingNorth oakland career center services - path and workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) career counseling and employment persons eligible for temporary aid to needy families (tanf) public assistance recipients and underemployed/unemployed adults and youth.each participant attends job readiness training to develop or enhance their skills to successfully secure and maintain employment or other career path support. Job retention and supportive services are provided to support participant's employment success. The program services also supports unemployed/underemployed persons seeking employment assistance including resume development, career counseling and job leads through goodwill's employment resource center.served 9,439 persons under contract with the oakland michigan work agency's for path, dislocated worker and workforce innovation opportunity act (wioa) programs, and unemployed/ underemployed job seekers for resources assistance, career coaching and counseling services. Facilitated competitive employment for 870 job ready individuals earning an average hourly wage rate $18.32.
$5,192,146 spent$4,711,754 earned by the program17% of program spendingGoodwill Industries of Greater Detroit provided employment & training services in the city of detroit, wayne and oakland counties. Target populations served include persons with severe and persistent mental illness, youth and young adults, chronically unemployed and underemployed men and woment and justice involved/justice impacted persons. Specific services included supports coordination and training for persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, adult education services, employability skills training for youth and young adults, employment development services for chronically unemployed/underemployed persons, transitional work experience and work soft skills training for community employment placement success and welding skilled trade training.
$2,814,284 spent$2,861,558 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,948,307.
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 $31M to $41M (+33%).
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 33% · 2018 43% · 2019 48% · 2020 41% · 2021 42% · 2022 34% · 2023 39% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT’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. 5 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
Dan Varner
President and CEO
Board chair
Randal Leslie
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.8M.
8 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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: $5.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Goodwill's Green Works Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT raised.
From the IRS filings of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT’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 GREATER DETROIT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 GREATER DETROIT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 50% · 2019 42% · 2020 29% · 2021 55% · 2022 63% · 2023 41% — growing more concentrated.
“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
76% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 90% 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
61% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 GREATER DETROIT's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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
- Goodwill's Green Works Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT (Michigan) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,085,327 to it, the largest being DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION ($2,807,233). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $11,085,327 in grants to GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT?
- DETROIT EMPLOYMENT SOLUTIONS CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,807,233 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF GREATER DETROIT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit →
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 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing