Georgia · Nonprofit
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,565,747 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to build lives, families and communities one career at a time by helping people develop their god-given gifts through education, work and career development services. Goodwill strives to end poverty one new career at a time, helping people served experience a "maximum of abundant living and makes a substantive economic impact in its thirty-five county territory in georgia and south carolina.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Retail:goodwill retail training stores and donation centers are the most visible and widely recognized symbol of goodwill's mission in the community. The retail stores and e-commerce sales generate over half (54%) of the agency's operating budget. These donor-driven stores offer gently used clothing, furniture, electronics, and other merchandise at great savings to goodwill's customers. Goodwill shoppers find bargains to help stretch their budgets while directly contributing to goodwill's mission to build lives, families, and communities one career at a time. More than eighty-seven ($.85) cents of every dollar shoppers spend in goodwill stores is reinvested locally in education, job skills training and placement programs that help individuals gain independence and a greater slice of the american dream through employment and career advancement.january 1 to december 31st highlights:achieved $32.9 million in sales; received donations from 497,411 material donors; six vehicles donated for resale; 1.4 million shoppers in our retail stores; and provided 23,017 total training hours to retail employees and clients.
$25,170,154 spent$4,432,889 earned by the program60% of program spendingThe hospitality division, edgar's hospitality group, consists of edgar's bistro, edgar's grille, edgar's above broad, anderson conference center, the snelling center, and pinnacle club. These applied learning businesses are non-profit social enterprises that support and promote goodwill's mission to the community. Edgar's bistro, edgar's grille, and edgar's above broad, named for goodwill industries founder dr. Edgar j. Helms, are full-service restaurants that provide helms college culinary students with first-hand experience in food preparation and presentation in an upscale experiential learning environment. Anderson conference center and snelling center also play host to corporate meeting and social events with a few attendees to a few hundred. The centers offer specially designed meeting spaces equipped with premier wi-fi technology and audiovisual amenities, with food service provided from customized catering menus. Both conference venues provide excellent applied-learning banquet and catering experiences for students at helms college and an opportunity to better market goodwill's life-changing mission to the community.january 1 to december 31st highlightsserved 40,670 guests…
$8,145,044 spent$6,752,109 earned by the program19% of program spendingEducation:goodwill's education services, through helms college, provided 241 students college level training in the culinary and health services disciplines at the two helms college campus locations in 2024, as well as 53 students at the hvac training facility. In addition to their classes, the culinary students also received over 19,600 hours of on-the-job hospitality training. There were 103 culinary graduates, 15 health sciences graduates and 10 hvac graduates in 2024.
$4,882,782 spent$2,857,037 earned by the program12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$3,644,924 spentof which $791,058 as grants$3,226,457 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: $41,842,904.
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 $46M to $58M (+27%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 1% · 2023 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA 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. 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.
Board chair
Dr John C David
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $245k → $50k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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: $11M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Goodwill Works Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA 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 MIDDLE GEORGIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 MIDDLE GEORGIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 96% · 2019 55% · 2020 58% · 2021 99% · 2022 85% · 2023 41% — 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
38% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA 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
75% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA 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 $3.4M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 MIDDLE GEORGIA INC's revenue grew 42% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- Department of Education$3.6M
- Department of Defense$15k
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 MIDDLE GEORGIA 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 5 related entities
- Helms LLC · disregarded
- Goodwill Staffing Services LLC · disregarded
- Good Vocations Inc · exempt
- Goodwill Works Foundation Inc · exempt
- The Pinnacle Club Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC (Georgia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,565,747 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $13,565,747 in grants to GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA 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 INDUSTRIES OF MIDDLE GEORGIA 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing