Goodwill Industries of Michiana

Federal recognition July 1938 — the Western Avenue headquarters

Founding and present state: Goodwill Industries of Michiana's federal record — the Internal Revenue Service's ruling on its exemption — is dated July 1938, and that is the founding anchor this account prints. (A 1931 date circulates in directory aggregations; no source behind it was produced, and it is not carried.) The organization's own history page was not reached in the sources for this account, so its course between 1938 and the present prints at directory size and the fuller history stands as a route for the update cycle. The documented present is substantial: headquarters at 1805 West Western Avenue in South Bend, a service territory of fifteen counties in the organization's own description, and Debie M. Coble as president and chief executive in its federal filing for the year ended December 2024. Its work — thrift stores funding job training and placement — is the Goodwill model's standard form, printed here only as the national model's local instance, not as a local claim.

Sources:

1. Internal Revenue Service exempt-organizations record, via nonprofit directories — Goodwill Industries of Michiana, exemption ruling July 1938; 1805 West Western Avenue.
2. Goodwill Industries of Michiana (goodwill-ni.org), services pages — the fifteen-county territory.
3. Goodwill Industries of Michiana, Form 990, year ended December 2024 — Debie M. Coble, president and chief executive.