Kentucky · Nonprofit
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,157,081 to it, the largest being GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ($22,879,939). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $42M
- Net assets
- $192M
What Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc does
Mission
Helping kentuckians find pathways out of poverty with a vision to end poverty in kentucky.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Goodwill industries of kentucky, inc.'s retail program helps people with disabilities or other disadvantages obtain and maintain employment at one of its 69 stores throughout kentucky by providing employment, training opportunities, and access to programs and resources that address barriers to employment. The stores sell a variety of merchandise (donated by the general public) to the community at discounted prices to divert items from local landfills and to generate funding to support employment counseling, educational programs and job training services, and other barrier reduction programs. During 2025, 3,361 individuals with disabilities or other disadvantages participated in the retail program, and the program paid wages to individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages totaling $41,707,625. Additionally over 80 million lbs were diverted from landfills.
$86,910,021 spent$83,561,177 earned by the program70% of program spendingGoodwill industries of kentucky, inc.'s opportunity centers and mission integration services provide pathways to improved job status and greater self-sufficiency for individuals facing barriers to achieving or maintaining employment such as those with limited education, those recovering from addiction, former offenders re-entering society from incarceration, at-risk youth, the homeless or unhoused, and others experiencing chronic poverty. The 12 opportunity centers and young adult opportunity center provide personal counseling and job coaching, skills training, assessments, job placement and retention services, and access to additional barrier reduction programs and community partner resources. These programs made 3,206 full time job placements and 407 part time job placements. Through all of goodwill programs 16,361 unique individuals were served, including 3,636 individuals receiving soft skills certificates, 4,269 expungement services, 159 receiving housing placements, and 1,433 individuals completing higher education or an other recognized credential. 762 individuals graduated from the work ready program which includes a digitial literacy workshop and financial wellness…
$31,128,647 spentof which $5,460,597 as grants$10,173,283 earned by the program25% of program spendingGoodwill industries of kentucky, inc. (goodwill) employs persons to provide janitorial and custodial services under contracts. These services are performed with a workforce comprised of more than 85% of persons with significant disabilities. These contracts employed 53 persons, and paid over $954,000 in mission-related wages.
$2,410,044 spent$2,408,724 earned by the program2% of program spendingGoodwill industries of kentucky, inc. Senior community employment service program (scsep) through a national department of labor (dol) grant is designed to link low-income, older workers to on-the-job training that can help them move into paid employment. Through scsep, goodwill matches eligible individuals age 55 and older with nonprofits or public agencies for on-the-job training in a professional work environment, paid by the scsep program. The scsep program served 353 individuals, made 25 full-time job placements, 29 part-time job placements, while paying over $991,200 in wages. The cars to work program helps individuals obtain affordable transportation to achieve and maintain employment. Participants receive financial counseling and guidance to help them properly budget for and maintain their vehicle. Upon program completion, participants are eligible for down payment assistance and a loan through a dealer partner which is collateralized by goodwill. Loan interest is reimbursed to participants successfully making all payments at the end of the loan term. Families are also enriched by access to transportation as clients' children may be able to participate in after-school…
$4,486,017 spent$4,685,498 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $124,934,729.
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 2024 to 2025, from $236M to $265M (+12%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% 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
Amy Luttrell
President & CEO
Board chair
Hugh Haydon
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $3.8M.
13 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 KENTUCKY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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 INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 KENTUCKY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 95% · 2021 78% · 2022 48% · 2023 74% — 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
54% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 KENTUCKY INC is better cushioned than half of the 27 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 27 employment nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.4M on record.
- General Services Administration$10.5M
- Department of Labor$5.9M
- Department of Defense$4.3M
- Social Security Administration$2.0M
- Appalachian Regional Commission$500k
- Department of Commerce$258k
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 OF KENTUCKY 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 2 related entities
- Goodwill Industries Worksllc · disregarded
- Goodwill Ky Support Corporation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,157,081 to it, the largest being GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ($22,879,939). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $42,157,081 in grants to GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,879,939 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 51 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