Missouri · Nonprofit
MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,787,647 to it, the largest being GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ($17,976,537). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $252M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $126M
What Mersmissouri Goodwill Industries does
Mission
To provide opportunities for persons with barriers to employment towork and live more independently in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Goodwill stores: retail operations were one of the original mission-based enterprise concepts of goodwill. Mission integration - the intentional blending of mission-focused activities, services, and programs - is the core guiding principle for our goodwill enterprise. This integrated work environment, tailored to charitable mission, offers workforce development and employment services by providing unique occupational skills training, work experience, employment opportunities and job coaching for our clients and others within the community. Mers/missouri goodwill industries currently operates over 40 locations across missouri which receive over one million donations annually.
$192,374,705 spent$109,103,441 earned by the program86% of program spendingEmployment and training: mers/missouri goodwill industries provides a variety of rehabilitation employment and training services for clients of various state agencies. Services include testing, evaluation, training, and placement. A sample of available programs includes:* autism employment program* brain injury employment program* career counseling & vocational education* deaf & hard of hearing* developmental & intellectual disabilities* education & literacymers/missouri goodwill industries established goodwill excel centers in 2018. The goodwill excel centers provide adults over the age of 21 an opportunity to obtain a free high school education as well as job training for after graduation.
$25,411,422 spent$11,436,292 earned by the program11% of program spendingContract services: mers/missouri goodwill industries seeks to create opportunities to place individuals in productive environments that utilize their capacities to the fullest extent possible. Through the contracted services program, individuals can participate in a variety of vocational training programs. A sample of programs available include:* assembly* business* custodial* machine manufacturing* paper processing
$5,183,580 spent$3,790,436 earned by the program2% of program spendingMers/missouri goodwill industries provides an abundance of services focused on providing opportunities for individuals with disabilities. In addition, mers/missouri goodwill industries also strives to provide family and re-entry services to assist youth in our community and individuals seeking re-entry into vocational employment.
$1,308,407 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $224,278,114.
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 $125M to $156M (+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 8% · 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Mark R Arens
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Lynn Rothbarth
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 narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $6.1M → $2.9M.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES’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
MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 44% · 2019 50% · 2020 59% · 2021 53% · 2022 54% · 2023 65% — 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
58% of MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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
MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 248 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 248 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.8M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.9M
- Department of Labor$3.5M
- Department of Justice$1.4M
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 MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
- Services for Extended Employment and Development Inc · exempt
- Mgi Services Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES?
- MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES (Missouri) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,787,647 to it, the largest being GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ($17,976,537). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $34,787,647 in grants to MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,976,537 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 17 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