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Samaritan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k88 grants · $332k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $726k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE WISE | $1,000,000 |
| GALILEAN HOME MINISTRIES INC | $720,000 |
| THE RESCUE MISSION | $700,000 |
| LIFE SONG FOR ORPAHNS | $275,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES | $105,000 |
| FILTER OF HOPE | $100,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| CHRISTIAN AID MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES INC | $100,000 |
| LOVING SHEPARD MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $100,000 |
| APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN ALMS FUND - LAT | $100,000 |
| ASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $985k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LILIFEWISE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +503%
- CAChristian Aid Ministries9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +30%
- LFLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +164%
Funded once
- SGSCOTT & GROVER HILL FIRE DEPTone grant, 2017 · $241k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $145k
- MFMILFORD FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
The mission of Praying Through ministries is to deliver gospel hope to families navigating dark seasons of pregnancy, childhood illness, hospitalization, and/or child loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and child loss of any age)…
World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…
Collins family ministries, inc. exists to embody the love of christ by providing compassion to families, children, and at-risk youth who are experiencing hardship. we provide shelter for children, strength to families, and stability to our…
The organization exists for the purpose of glorifying god, honoring his word and proclaiming the truth of jesus christ while loving and serving those who are in need.
Covenant childrens home is to provide a residence, food and clothing plus a continuum of care including physical, emotional, and spiritual nurturing for neglected, abandoned or abused children.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
The organization cares for the sick and suffering in Jesus name by partnering with Christian mission hospitals, helping patients unable to afford treatment, and supporting Mustard Seed House ministry locations in Kenya.
It is our mission to demonstrate the love and compassion of jesus christ by protecting and enhancing the safety and well-being of persons from all backgrounds and across the continuum of life through the effective integration of the…
The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.
Place of hope is dedicated to providing a stable and loving family environment for children who are hurting and their families. we are committed to meeting desperate needs in our community by sharing god's love and placing hope in their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Apostolic Christian Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Van Wert Area Economic Development Corporation. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 410 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LIFEWISE INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds GALILEAN HOMES MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds ASHES TO GLORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION REBIRTH INC ↗
- Who funds West Ohio Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED FURNITURE BANK OF FORT WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PAULDING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN BABY BOXES INC ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MILFORD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS 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: The James Foundation Inc · Wayne County Community Foundation · Christ Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Premier Bank Foundation · Mary Cross Tippmann Foundation · Surack Family Foundation Inc · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · The Dayton Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · Servant Foundation
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 Samaritan Foundation 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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