How the donation value guides compare

The lists above are not one table reprinted from a charity. Each section is that publisher, the date we store, and the row labels as printed. A range in the prose below is one row, cited. Read methodology for what a number is allowed to be, and sources for the terms note.

Four lists were copied. The Salvation Army national list has no date on the ranges. Retrieved 2026-11-12. The page tells a donor to choose inside the printed span for the item's age and quality. It is the broad household list: furniture, appliances, clothing, and a lot of smaller goods. Use it when you want that undated national span and you are willing to judge age and quality yourself.

Goodwill Industries International is dated January 12, 2011, from the PDF creation date. The blockquote above, where that guide has one, is their own condition line: assume good condition, and treat the figures as estimates. Clothing is split by gender, so a shirt is not one row. A line that prints a single price is stored with the same low and high. The file is the copy hosted by Goodwill of the Southern Alleghenies. The compiler named on it is Goodwill Industries International. Use it when you want that 2011 store estimate, including a men's or women's or children's line.

The list published at tchabitat.org is dated January 2, 2019. The publisher is inferred from the domain and shown that way, because the PDF does not name an organization. It is the list that carries building materials: paint, doors, cabinets, lumber, tile. It says the list is not complete and points donors to Form 8283. Use it for a building item that list actually prices, and do not treat a missing row as a zero.

The list published at ccmaine.org is dated July 19, 2012. The publisher is inferred from that domain. Its basis line assumes appliances, electronics and equipment work, and assumes clothing and furniture are in good overall condition. It tells the donor to pick inside the range for age, condition and quality. Seven printed rows whose high was not a number are not stored. Use it when the gift matches that condition assumption. Do not invent a high the sheet left blank.

Goodwill Northern New England is dated February 3, 2025, the last modification of the page fetched on 2026-11-12. No rows are copied. The privacy page says reproduction of material on that site needs prior permission. The one cited sentence is 30%³ of the original price, for an item not on their list. On this site that percent is the calculator line for an item you type, not a substitute cell in the tables.

Where the copied highs diverge, the chart shows every item type listed by at least three guides. The widest high-end gap in that set is a dresser. The Salvation Army prints $21–$104⁴. Goodwill Industries International prints $20–$60⁵. The tchabitat.org list prints $25–$100⁶. The ccmaine.org list prints $20–$150⁷. A sofa is on the same four lists: $36–$207¹, $30–$150⁸, $25–$150⁹, $30–$150¹⁰. A lamp is too: $5–$78¹¹, $4–$12¹², $5–$25¹³, $4–$30¹⁴. None of those is a sold figure. They are the spans the lists print.

The only appliance on three copied guides is a coffee maker: $4–$16¹⁵, $4–$15¹⁶, $5–$20¹⁷. A men's suit is on the same three: $16–$62², $10–$30¹⁸, $5–$15¹⁹. A hardcover book is too: $1–$3²⁰, $1–$3²¹, $1–$15²². Paint is only on the tchabitat.org list, $5–$10²³. The other copied guides have no paint row in this catalog.

A missing cell is an absence, not a zero and not the percent rule. Category tables on Furniture and the other hubs show that cell as not listed. The calculator names the same absence on that guide's total. IRS rules for donated household items is the threshold text, separate from these spans.