Ohio · Private foundation
Samaritan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 155
- Grants FY2025
- 108
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 108
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Samaritan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 127 | $5.2M | 56% |
| FY2024 | 108 | $5.3M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 92 | $3.9M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $2.3M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $2.4M | 39% |
| FY2020 | 88 | $2.0M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $1.4M | 58% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $1.6M | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifewise Inc | $2,101,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Christian Aid Ministries | $1,948,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | $1,585,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Galilean Homes Ministries | $1,580,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $700,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $700,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp | $370,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ashes to Glory Foundation | $305,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Operation Rebirth Inc | $205,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Apostolic Christian Harvestcall | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 291 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Samaritan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Samaritan Foundation
- How much does Samaritan Foundation give?
- Samaritan Foundation reported 155 grants totaling $5,166,004 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 108 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Samaritan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), International (16%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
- Who are Samaritan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lifewise Inc ($2.1M), Christian Aid Ministries ($1.9M), Lifesong for Orphans Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Samaritan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Samaritan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Samaritan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James Foundation Inc, Wayne County Community Foundation, Christ Foundation.
- Where is Samaritan Foundation based?
- Samaritan Foundation is based in OH.
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