Iowa · Nonprofit
GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS
GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,688 to it, the largest being GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ($192,586). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $52M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $587k
- Net assets
- $34M
What Goodwill of the Great Plains does
Mission
Goodwill of the Great Plains builds independence through employment, training, and community support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Retail program servicesgoodwill utilizes its twenty-two retail stores, two e-commerce locations and one outlet store to provide on-the-job training to people with disabilities, people with disadvantages and others having a hard time finding employment. Goodwill accepts clothing and other household donated goods from the public and sells these donations in community-based retail stores. Revenue from the sales of these goods goes directly toward supporting and growing critical community-based programs and workforce development services.
$41,262,249 spentof which $16,511 as grants$28,322,702 earned by the program91% of program spendingWorkforce development program servicesindividuals achieve greater levels of self-sufficiency and economic success through goodwill's workforce development services - such as employment training and education, work experience, pre-employment training, employment retention services, high school work training programs,and job center services. Workforce development programs and services were provided to 5,366 individuals in 2024. Goodwill serves individuals through intensive case managed workforce development programs, which utilize goodwill retail stores, administrative offices, and e-commerce operations for paid on-the-job training, along with community based on-the-job training with local employers. Job center services are in four locations and offer free employment resources such as resume development, job search, mock interviews, application assistance, computer training, and job fairs.intensive services were provided to 2,263 individuals in 2024. These services encompass educational and career services with a program manager or direct service worker assigned to each participant with services delivered over an extended period of time. Maintenance and enhancement of skills or…
$3,484,199 spentof which $6,289 as grants$2,368,872 earned by the program8% of program spendingContracts community basedgoodshred invests in the community by offering secure document destruction and hard drive destruction, recycling thousands of pounds of paper and electronics each year to keep it out of landfills. The average collection container diverts 200 pounds of paper from landfills and provides two hours of job coaching for individuals in goodwill programs. Located in sioux falls, sd, goodshred serves all of south dakota and portions of iowa, nebraska and minnesota.
$480,075 spent$625,606 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther areas of significant mission work include but are not limited to christmas shoe and mitten parties which served 3,372 underprivileged, school k-8 aged children in 2024 and were held in 16 locations throughout our four-state region. 2,950 store vouchers were distributed by our 22 stores to individuals and families in need to purchase daily necessities such as wares and clothing through goodwill's voucher assistance program in an effort provide them a "hand-up".all told, our organization served a total of 32,695 individuals in 2024 throughout our territory. Of that total, 563 individuals were placed into community jobs through our mission services, and 668 veterans were served through our boots to suits and veteran stand down programs with new coats, boots, and supplies to better equip them through the winter months.
$220,387 spentof which $61,001 as grants$361,664 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,446,910.
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 2023 to 2024, from $48M to $60M (+25%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 8% · 2022 2% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS’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. 2 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
Briget Solomon
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Steve Kistner
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $74k → $21k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 OF THE GREAT PLAINS’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 OF THE GREAT PLAINS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 OF THE GREAT PLAINS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 63% — 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 OF THE GREAT PLAINS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 OF THE GREAT PLAINS draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 OF THE GREAT PLAINS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 441 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% 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 4 related entities
- Independence Village Inc · exempt
- Pheasant Acres Apartments Inc · exempt
- Forest Acres Inc · exempt
- Prairie Haven Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS?
- GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $586,688 to it, the largest being GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ($192,586). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $586,688 in grants to GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $192,586 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOODWILL OF THE GREAT PLAINS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 9 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