South Carolina · Nonprofit
PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES
PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,585,817 to it, the largest being GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ($12,850,295). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Palmetto Goodwill Services does
Mission
Palmetto goodwill service's (goodwill) mission is changing lives by providing equitable access to training, education, and employment. Goodwill enriches the lives of people while providing quality service to customers. Work and training opportunities are provided through actual contract service work performed for government entities and local businesses. Customers rely on goodwill to provide food service, janitorial, groundskeeping and mailroom services. Work skills attained through ability one contract sites help people with disabilities gain skills and become more self-sufficient.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Palmetto Goodwill Services (goodwill) continued creating employment opportunities for individuals who are blind or have significant disabilities under the sourceamerica abilityone program which has a congressional mandate that 75% of direct labor hours are performed by this population of employees. Goodwill reported direct labor hours of 83% which demonstrates the commitment to increasing training opportunities above the federal mandate. Goodwill also reported five contract sites where 100% of the direct labor hours were worked by individuals who are blind or have significant disabilities. Wages are at or above $17.20/hour for all individuals working at these contract sites. Goodwill employs 266 individuals who are blind or have significant disabilities performing services in federal buildings and military installations in south carolina and virginia. Goodwill is recognized as the largest (non-profit organization) employer of individuals who are blind or have significant disabilities in the state of south carolina. In 2024, goodwill created 23 new employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
$16,048,571 spent$17,550,471 earned by the program93% of program spendingPalmetto Goodwill Services renewed three 5-year contracts in 2024 with a total value of $2.4 million; one mailroom, one janitorial and one grounds maintenance contract. The mailroom service contract has been in place since 2017. The janitorial contract has been in place since 2021. The grounds maintenance contract has been in place since 2018. These three contracts give the opportunity for 11 people to have gainful employment.
$371,199 spent$503,451 earned by the program2% of program spendingPalmetto Goodwill Services (goodwill) receives several different ratings and certifications from widely known systems and organizations. During the fall of 2024, goodwill switched to a new quality control system called vector and improved their quality assurance system program for all contract sites. These improvements have led and will continue to lead to higher cpars (contractor performance assessment reporting system) ratings. Goodwill received 4 satisfactory and 4 very good ratings under cpars since making those improvements. Cpars is a u.s. Government system that collects and reports on the performance of federal contractors across different categories, such as quality, schedule, cost control, management, and regulatory compliance. Cpars ratings range from exceptional to unsatisfactory. Palmetto Goodwill Services has a requirement at their largest full food service contract to have members of management and supervisors be servsafe certified. Goodwill has four team members instructor/proctor certified to teach servsafe and to proctor the exam. In 2024, goodwill servsafe certified a total of 32 team members.
$890,256 spent$125,369 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,310,026.
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 $19M to $21M (+14%).
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.
0% of PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Brian Itzkowitz
President CEO
Board chair
Darryl Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $80k → $2.4M.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES’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
PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 82% · 2020 84% · 2021 89% · 2022 83% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 441 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $120.4M on record.
- Department of Defense$117.0M
- General Services Administration$2.5M
- Department of Transportation$569k
- Department of Commerce$309k
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 PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% 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 3 related entities
- Palmetto Goodwill · exempt
- Palmetto Excel Inc · exempt
- Palmetto Goodwill Services Health and Welfare Plan · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES: 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 PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES?
- PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,585,817 to it, the largest being GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC ($12,850,295). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $15,585,817 in grants to PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES?
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,850,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALMETTO GOODWILL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 6 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