Goodwill Industries of Northern NE
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010284340
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Gorham, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077746323
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,335,985
- Expenses
- $86,197,081
- Assets
- $95,314,615
- Liabilities
- $43,709,289
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cecil Harrison (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Cecil Harrison (CEO): $417,352 total reported compensation
- Sherri Evans (CFO): $280,129 total reported compensation
- Trendy Stanchfield (SVP of Mission Services): $239,308 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Goodwill Industries of Northern New England invests in people who need support to achieve their life and work goals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Workforce Services: Employees in the Workforce Services division delivered services to more than 8,000 youth and adults whose life circumstances present significant barriers to successful employment and stability. Personalized services include our successful Job Connection model of intensive life navigation: one-on-one guidance, coaching, training, and career advising to help assure positive outcomes on-the-job that lead to the participant building a stable life. This aligns with our work with hundreds of businesses in our region to help them meet their workforce development goals through our services. Our AmeriCorps programs build the career capacity of the AmeriCorps members and the resiliency of communities in which they serve. Workforce Services provided services for people in our region looking for jobs, including resume creation, interview preparation, as well as overall career, training and education services including intensive one-on-one support, on-the-job training, coaching and job placement referrals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $59.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st 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; 65th 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: 7.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $76.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $417K · 24 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.5M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.