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THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC
THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,236,184 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,001,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $21M
What The Goodwill Industries of Akron Ohio Inc does
Mission
Goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc is a not-for-profit corporation that helps individuals prepare for, find, and retain employment. Goodwill serves the five-county region of summit, portage, medina, ashland, and richland. Goodwill helps to directly strengthen the region's workforce through its employment programs and indirectly through the net proceeds from its retail outlets and contract services division.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Items are donated from generous donors through its retail stores, attended donation sites, and through estate or home pickups. The items are sold in its 15 retail stores, boutique, online through shopgoodwill.com, ebooks, or auto auctions. Items that are not sold in retail locations are sold through an outlet store. Remaining unsold donations are sold as salvage to keep items from the trash, as well as earning dollars to promote the mission. A total of 159 clients participated in training or employment experience in the retail division through work experience, work adjustment, and vocational evaluation services in 2025.
$21,402,252 spent$19,428,674 earned by the program84% of program spendingMission services includes a vast array of employee/employer services for the career/job-seeker. The goodwill industries of akron, ohio, inc. Offers career exploration, advising services, resume and interview preparation, as well as skill identification. For the business/employer, we offer recruiting, applicant screening, and pre-employment testing. For those in need of more intensive services, goodwill offers the following individualized services: assessments, adjustments, evaluations for individuals with visual impairments, job coaching, placement and retention, work experience, and youth programs. Workforce development also hosts a radio reading program serving the visually impaired or cognitively challenged in the area. The elizabeth clark program serves those in need in our area with vouchers to our retail locations during 2025. Workforce development referred 728 participants for placement and placed 706. In total, it served 15,392 individuals, in addition to 706 receiving placement services, 156 received vocational evaluations, assessments, and adjustments; 394 participated in youth programs; 298 participated in job skills classes, job fairs and workshops; 5,350 received job…
$2,249,683 spentof which $41,305 as grants$1,332,641 earned by the program9% of program spendingContract services includes assembly operations and industrial sewing and is certified to iso 9001 2015. This program service is a participant in the state use program, providing items such as safety vests, towels, washcloths, aprons and laundry bags. Its sewing department also offers customized industrial sewing for area businesses. Assembly operations offers local businesses with individualized assembly needs, such as collating, die-cutting, heat shrinking, packaging, kitting, de-manufacturing, re-work, sorting, labeling and prototyping. 16 individuals were provided training or employment experience in 2025 through the contracts division in work experience, vocational evaluation, and work adjustment.
$1,921,969 spent$2,378,398 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,573,904.
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 2019 to 2020, from $15M to $21M (+36%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Nancy Ellis Mcclenaghan
President & CEO
Board chair
Jeana M Singleton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $230k → $359k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 funders by total. 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
THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
95% 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 THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 47% · 2019 32% · 2020 37% · 2021 92% · 2022 52% · 2023 61% — 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
75% of THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
77% of THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO 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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M 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.
Organizations like THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC?
- THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,236,184 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,001,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $7,236,184 in grants to THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,001,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF AKRON OHIO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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