Michigan · Nonprofit
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,045,668 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($4,079,409). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $7.0M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Goodwill Industries of Sw Michigan does
Mission
To improve the community by providing employment, education, training and support services tailored to individual needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Our commercial services division is best known to the public. It benefits from community donations of gently used clothing, household items, toys, working electronics, cars, and other vehicles. Donations are processed and resold in our goodwill retail outlets. Our workers use these donations to learn valuable work skills. Their jobs include collecting, sorting, processing, pricing, stocking, and selling these items. The revenues generated by goodwill retail outlets provide our workers' wages and fund goodwill programs and services. Total revenue in 2023 for commercial services is 10,808,386.
$8,601,449 spent$1,493,964 earned by the program71% of program spendingGoodwill provided 3,735 people with services of education, training and support services in 2023. These services included employment/career coaching, financial literacy services, adult literacy services, vocational assessments and counseling, community resource navigation and a 20 year commitment to families who want to exit poverty with a child 0-3 called life guides. Life guides of southwestern michigan provides a life coach for families with a small child. The objective of the program is for the child (0-3) to graduate from a post-secondary program and obtain a living wage position, thus breaking the poverty cycle for that family. The difference between a middle class family and a poverty family is time frame. Life guide coaches work with the family to develop middle and long term goal setting by helping the family rid themselves of the daily crisis situations that lead to poor decisions for the long term.
$1,301,170 spentof which $111,072 as grants11% of program spendingGoodwill provides area businesses with manufacturing services while providing work experience for the people we serve. As with our retail operations, goodwill uses the revenues from our contract manufacturing services division for its education and career services for people with disabilities and disadvantages such as welfare dependency, homelessness, and lack of education or work experience. The custodial services division offers the resources to provide local businesses with janitorial services.
$2,258,633 spent$861,047 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,161,252.
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 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $17M (+10%).
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.
77% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN’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. 3 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
Steven Cummings
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $921k → $250k.
3 of 15 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.
From the IRS filings of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN’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 SW MICHIGAN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 SW MICHIGAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 70% · 2019 63% · 2020 51% · 2021 55% · 2022 81% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
95% of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.
Against its field
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN 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
Government funding GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $54k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$54k
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 SW MICHIGAN
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
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN (Michigan) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,045,668 to it, the largest being THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION ($4,079,409). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $7,045,668 in grants to GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN?
- THE RONDA E STRYKER AND WILLIAM D JOHNSTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,079,409 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN 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.
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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 15 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