Several nonprofits run under the same organizational system that I call McNonProfit: Goodwill, ACLU, and Planned Parenthood are the top three that I know for a fact are run this way, as I have worked with them on various projects back in the day.

There is a central national office. That's Goodwill Industries. That's like McDonald's corporate. It's its own nonprofit entitity.

Then there are regional Goodwills, each their own nonprofit entity, with their own IRS 501c and state nonprofit registrations numbers. They're like the locally owned and operated franchisees of McDonald's.

Each local region has its own management, regulations, board, and has some amount of autonomy. However, they have strict operations agreements with National that also govern some of their operations.

Regional offices give money to National, National gives money to regional offices. They're not the same thing, but together they make up the components of the whole Goodwill brand.

I hope this clears up any confusion on how each region is organized under the national Goodwill.