Illinois · Nonprofit
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,458,082 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,001,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc does
Mission
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. Barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others. Goodwill provides community programs, case management, vocational training, and supportive programs and services for individuals with barriers. Goodwill's programs help individuals find and maintain employment, and attain the training they need to be successful in the communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Retail servicesthere's really nothing like goodwill industries of northern illinois. For many, we're a great retail shopping experience with 12 locations in an 18 county area offering amazing value and hidden treasures. For others, we're a convenient place to donate used clothing and household items with more than 14.8 million pounds of goods kept out of the landfills and recycled in 2023. Donations from individuals, companies and organizations are the first step in putting our mission into motion by generating the sales revenue needed to provide vital skills and training to participants with disabilities. Goodwill is also a strong corporate citizen. In 2023, goodwill generated $1,326,819 in retail sales tax and paid employee income taxes in the amount of over $1,189,406
$30,275,941 spent$27,246,752 earned by the program77% of program spendingMission servicesin 2023 goodwill industries of northern illinois served 27,963 people in many different ways, but with the same end goal - helping people create opportunities to enhance their lives. Our "goodgrads" adult basic education program served 752 people providing both education and case management and 2,451 scholarships to help offset costs associated with the high school equivalency (ged) test. Goodwill's "let's go to work" program gave 51 adults with disabilities the opportunity to 'earn while they learn' in 9 goodwill locations with the goal of transitioning many to the local work force. Goodwill's employment programs placed 1,620 people in good jobs in the local area.
$9,253,947 spentof which $723,505 as grants23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,529,888.
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.
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 $25M to $33M (+31%).
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 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 11% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Jim Corbett
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $42k → $370k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA 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 NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 38% · 2019 90% · 2020 97% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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
60% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
60% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA 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, 71% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M 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.
Organizations like GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA 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 Illinois
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
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 1 related entity
- Goodwill Excel Center Northern Illinois Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC: 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 NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,458,082 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,001,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $8,458,082 in grants to GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,001,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN IL AND WI STATELINE AREA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 11 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