Goodwill Industries of Kansas, Inc.
Legal name: Goodwill Industries of Kansas Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480673284
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wichita, KS, US
- Phone
- (316) 744-9291
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,484,246
- Expenses
- $28,272,916
- Assets
- $61,535,329
- Liabilities
- $5,305,165
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURA RITTERBUSH (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LAURA RITTERBUSH (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $266,779 total reported compensation
- TIM NIKKEL (CFO): $190,801 total reported compensation
- DAVE CHADICK (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $175,125 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We transform lives and communities through the power of education, training and employment. Vision: To be the leading resource for individuals seeking their fullest potential. Join the Goodwill Mission Together, we will champion the promise of what’s possible for every person in our community. Discover the many ways you can support the work of Goodwill in Kansas. Get Involved. Sustainability:** We commit to practices that support environmental, social, and economic strength. Ethics:** We uphold high standards of honesty, integrity, and fairness in all business dealings. Respect:** We treat every individual with dignity, care, and sincerity to build an equitable environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
The education program consists of both adult basic education for adults (16+), english as a second language (esl) training for adults (16+), and citizenship classes. The adult basic education program helps students earn their Kansas high school diploma and explore in-demand careers. The esl program helps non-english-speaking individuals to learn the english language and explore in-demand career options as well. Students are guided through these programs by licensed instructors either virtually or in-person preparing them to pass the required state exams to earn their Kansas high school diploma.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 83.2%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.18; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $24.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $267K · 26 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.5M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule M noncash within contributions did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.