Goodwill Works of the Chesapeake Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260635788
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4108371800
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,273,107
- Expenses
- $1,034,327
- Assets
- $1,325,641
- Liabilities
- $1,091,996
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA RUSYNIAK (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA RUSYNIAK (PRESIDENT/CEO): $729,154 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide employment and training opportunities for people with disabilities and other individuals with special needs. To provide assistance with attaining full vocational, social, cultural, moral, mental and economic development, and general full participation in society through skillful application of the techniques of rehabilitation and guidance.
What it reported doing in 2025
Goodwill works of the chesapeake, inc. Is a supporting organization of goodwill industries of the chesapeake, inc. Revenue generated from our various business functions is used to support our mission and cover the costs of operating the businesses. 299 individuals with physical, mental, or other social barriers to employment received services through career development in 2025, including 241 people placed into temporary and training positions.
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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 89
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 18.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $917K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $729K · 9 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.