Goodwill's Green Works Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271387647
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
Location
Detroit, MI, USA
Phone
3134993100
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Goodwill Industries

Reported finances

Revenue
$8,293,316
Expenses
$6,543,111
Assets
$10,988,387
Liabilities
$7,163,072

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAN VARNER (PRESIDENT AND CEO GIGD)
  • CALEB RUTLEDGE (PRESIDENT GGW)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAN VARNER (PRESIDENT AND CEO GIGD): $278,416 total reported compensation
  • CALEB RUTLEDGE (PRESIDENT GGW): $154,349 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of goodwill's green works, inc. Is to provide training and develop the skills of people with employment challenges to enable them to work. Environmentally friendly services are provided to customers while creating job opportunities for local residents who are unemployed.

What it reported doing in 2024

Transitional work experience for persons with challenges to employment. Persons included are early prison release, economically disadvantaged, underemployed and unemployed. Teach job success factors such as ready to work on-time, work within a team, value of metrics, responsibility and technical skills such as safe fork lift operation, material flow within the manufacturing cell and material processing and equipment used. Each 16-week session includes both soft & hard skills needed to be mastered for trainess to be successful in their search for permanent jobs. Soft skills development includes punctuality, attendance, teamwork, respectful interactions, flexibility, problem-solving abilities, strong communication skills, and self-confidence at all corporate levels. Hard skills include training to operate factory equipment such as fork lift, sheer machine, reel-o-matic, and rough sort line; trainees also learn about the value & importance of metrics. All are skills employers expect candidates to have in place at time of initial interview.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - 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 some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 67
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.9%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.1%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.65; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.9% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $278K · 11 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.