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If your question is not answered here, please call 704-372-3434 or e-mail shaun.pitcher@goodwillsp.org.
Why should I donate a vehicle to Goodwill?
Safety, convenience, a tax deduction, and knowing that your donation is helping us help others get jobs. You don't have strangers coming to your home. You don't have to haggle with car salesmen over trade-in values, plus we provide free towing. Donating to Goodwill is the easiest way there is to do something good in our community.
What percentage of the proceeds from the sale of my vehicle will go to Goodwill programs?
After paying a flat fee for towing, title work and auction services, we receive 100 percent of the resale of every donated vehicle. This money is used to provide transportation assistance to qualified individuals who are working to obtain, maintain or improve their employment and economic independence.
How will my vehicle be used?
Every donated vehicle is resold and the revenue is used to provide transportation assistance to qualified individuals who are working to obtain, maintain or improve their employment and economic independence. Depending on the condition of your vehicle, it will either be resold through retail or at an auction.
Does my car have to be running to donate?
NO! WE TAKE EVERYTHING. We accept all vehicles, along with motorcycles, RVs, campers and boats on trailers.
What type of vehicles do you accept?
We accept all vehicles, along with motorcycles, RVs, campers and boats on trailers.
Do you provide a free home pickup service?
Yes, Monday through Friday within the greater Charlotte area.
I've heard that some for-profits companies are disguising themselves behind nonprofit-sounding names. How can I be sure that I'm donating my car to a legitimate charity?
We recommend you ask a lot of questions.
Is the organization's name familiar or is it a name that just sounds not quite right?
Is the organization local?
Is the organization an IRS-approved 501(c)(3) nonprofit? If they answer yes, ask for their federal identification number.
Do they have a web site?
What happens to the vehicle after it is donated?
What percentage of the vehicle's proceeds actual goes toward mission work?
Is the mission work local or in another state or country?
Is the title signed over to the charity's name?
What do I do after I donate?
You will receive a donation receipt once you sign the title over to Goodwill. Please take a "copy" of the donation receipt, your license plate and registration to DMV as soon as possible to unregister the car. Once it's de-registered, then call your insurance company to cancel coverage (they might want a copy of the donation receipt, too). Further documentation you'll want to keep is listed in the following answer.
How much is my vehicle worth as an itemized tax deduction?
You should take several photographs of the vehicle before donating to document the car's condition. Keep the photographs, your Goodwill donation receipt and your vehicle's maintenance records for several years following the donation. Once your vehicle is resold (either through retail or at an auction), Goodwill will send you a written statement that lists the sale price of your vehicle. The sale price is the amount that you can take as a tax deduction.
Click here for the IRS Donor's Guide to Car Donations (To download PDF: right click & select "save target as")IRS guidelines for charitable contributions can be found at their web site at http://www.irs.gov/ or by calling toll-free 1-800-829-1040.
Once the car is donated and resold, what happens if the new owner doesn't legally register it and I start receiving tickets or impoundment notices from the police or DMV?
Luckily, such stories are few and far between, but they do happen. That's why it's so important after you donate a car to take the license tags, registration and a "copy" of your donation receipt to DMV to unregister the vehicle -- and keep the original donation receipt with your important personal papers. However, should this occur, Goodwill retains the original MVR-46F form that was filled out at the time of your donation and will send the form to the DMV, a copy of the MVR-46F will be sent to you along with a copy of the bill of sale where the vehicle was sold to the new owner, should the new owner fail to register the vehicle.
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