How much does Samaritan Hospital Foundation give?

Samaritan Hospital Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $4,742,285, out of $4,940,722 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Samaritan Hospital Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (90%), Human Services (4%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%).

Who are Samaritan Hospital Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University Hospitals Health System Inc ($19M), The City of Ashland Ohio ($416k), Young Men's Christian Association Ashland Ohio Inc ($268k).

Does Samaritan Hospital Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Samaritan Hospital Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ashland County Community Foundation, The Norma Foundation, United Way of Ashland County.

Where is Samaritan Hospital Foundation based?

Samaritan Hospital Foundation is based in OH.

Samaritan Hospital Foundation

Samaritan Hospital Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Samaritan Hospital Foundation

The foundation's mission is to provide financial support to samaritan regional health system to provide health and wellness initiatives to the ashland county community.

$4.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$4.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$20MHuman Services$775kPublic Safety & Disaster$502kEducation$192kHousing & Shelter$146kArts & Culture$139kFood & Nutrition$77kCommunity Improvement$56kOther$0

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 24 grants below total $4,742,285, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,940,722 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $198,437 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k16 grants · $303k
$50k–250k5 grants · $384k
$250k+1 grant · $4.0M

$21,000

Median grant

States reached

$64M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SAMARITAN REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM	$4,042,512
ASHLAND ACCESS	$96,200
ASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION	$81,500
CITY OF ASHLAND DIVISION OF FIRE	$78,344
ASHLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT	$67,500
ASHLAND FAMILY YMCA	$60,000
ASHLAND SPECIAL NEEDS MINISTRY	$42,204
ASHLAND CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER	$38,405
ASHLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$32,000
FIRELANDS AMBULANCE SERVICE	$23,901
CITY OF ASHLAND	$21,500
ASHLAND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS	$21,000
ASHLAND COUNTY MH AND RECOVERY BOAR	$20,000
FOSTERING FAMILY MINISTRY	$16,000
LIFEWISE ACADEMY	$13,600

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $729k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$22M · 23 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$22M

$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+38%

Still filing today

74%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

YM
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ASHLAND OHIO INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $268k · revenue +181%
AC
ASHLAND CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $248k · revenue +204% · 29% of their budget
AC
ASHLAND COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $199k · revenue +183%

Funded once

FC
FOUNDATIONS COMMUNITY CHILDCARE INC
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -89%
P
PROJECTONEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +119%
IA
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS
one grant, 2023 · $15k

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.

04Its field

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.

Ashland County Aging Unit

Services to the elderly

Human Services

Ashland Assisted Living Inc

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…

Human Services

Ashland Emergency Food Bank

Local faith groups, in alliance with the community at large, will provide emergency food supplies, without charge, t0 individuals and families in the ashland/talent area who would otherwise go hungry and will also endeavor to increase…

Food & Nutrition

Ashland Senior Community Centerinc

Providing services to the elderly

Community Improvement

Ashland County Council On Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Inc

Substance abuse counseling and education

Health

Ashland Community Foundation

To improve the quality of life in the ashland area, through, but not limited to the promotion, encouragement and support of education, health and well-being of families & individuals, preservation of nature, history, and the promotion of…

Philanthropy

Ashland Foundation

To make contributions which are used to support the social and economic impact in the local community.

Philanthropy

Ashland County Historical Society

To preserve the history of ashland county, ohio, and to provide educational opportunities to read about and experience said history and heritage.

Arts & Culture

Ashland Area Young Men's Christian Assoc

To provide facilities programs, and leadership that will emphasize development in the area's of spirit, mind, and body in a christian environment that is available for the entire community.

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Housing Partners of Ashland County Inc

Assisting ashland county residents in need of secure, safe, affordable housing through rentals, renovations, and/or new homes.

—

Ashtabula County Council On Aging Inc

Organization that operates a multi-purpose senior center for persons sixty years of age or older and their spouses, regardless of age, living in ashtabula county, ohio. the agency also provides older americans with health assessment,…

Human Services

Ashland Community Kitchen Inc

To offer meals on a daily basis to those in need of food

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashland County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Loudonville Perrysville Booster. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

20/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$20,369,087Human Services$729,167Health$552,877Housing & Shelter$145,550Youth Development$110,150Arts & Culture$79,000Education$40,000

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.

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.

Ashland County Community FoundationOH65.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ashland County Community Foundation · The Norma Foundation · United Way of Ashland County · Hugo H & Mabel B Young Foundation · Barbasol Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Samaritan Hospital Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samaritan Hospital Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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