· Private foundation
Good Samaritan Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k14 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $720k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $198,069 |
| HILLCREST BRUCE | $151,900 |
| RED BIRD CLINIC DENTAL | $150,000 |
| ALDERSGATE | $147,974 |
| KY ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC | $144,600 |
| NATHANIEL MISSION | $131,420 |
| METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME OF KY | $80,298 |
| ENCOUNTER MISSION | $68,500 |
| UNION COLLEGE | $55,212 |
| LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE | $54,696 |
| THE FOUNDRY | $51,750 |
| WESLEY MANOR RETIREMENT COMMUNITY | $44,051 |
| WESLEY VILLAGE | $42,000 |
| RED BIRD CLINIC HEALTH | $39,770 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WESLEY FOUNDATION | $38,258 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Good Samaritan Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
Rockcastle hospital is organized to provide medical care to members of its community. the hospital has a policy of accepting all patients within its primary service area regardless of ability to pay. mission: rockcastle hospital and…
Providing reliable, accessible, high quality medical services to the most vunerable people in our community.
Mercy health services, inc. reflects the love of jesus christ by providing quality healthcare to the insured and uninsured serving williamson county and surrounding counties.
To promote and improve the quality of life by providing integrated healthcare services to the entire community in the name and spirit of Christ
To provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation-developmental disability services that promote the health and quality of life of our community members.
Our mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.
Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Health Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chrysalis House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LINDSEY WILSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY MANOR RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WESLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POST CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LADIES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO EYE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Good Samaritan Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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