· Private foundation
Samaritan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILIFEWISE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +503%
- CAChristian Aid Ministries9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +9%
- 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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $100k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN LIFEPOINTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MERCIES MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Samaritan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samaritan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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