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Samaritan Ministries International

To redeem health care by helping the body of christ love one another through sharing each other's health care burdens while experiencing authentic biblical community.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$4.6MCivil Rights$178kInternational$105kReligion$93kHuman Services$30kEducation$15k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $35,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,472,170 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,437,170 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.
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$20,000
LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
CA
CO
AZ
KS
LA
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 7 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +164% since the first grant, against +116% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$4.9M
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+164%
+116%

Still filing today

86%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHealthInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    Christian Healthcare Centers Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $447k · revenue +217%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS
    6× · 2018–2023 · $321k · revenue +763%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Colson Center for Christian Worldviewgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +142%
  • PC
    PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • DC
    DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFPgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +116%
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.

1
Pregnancy Care Center

The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.

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2
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
A Door of Hope Pregnancy Center

A door of hope pregnancy center is a christ-centered organization that empowers people to make life-affirming and healthy decisions, particularly about sex, pregnancy and relationships.

Health
5
Lifesong Inc

Lifesong seeks to promote the gospel of jesus christ through caring for orphans, supporting and educating children through global christian orphan care ministries, serving christian adoptive families, and providing christian foster care…

Human Services
6
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
7
Loving Arms - a Crisis Pregnancy Center

Sharing the love of christ while promoting sexual integrity and bringing life affirming services to those unprepared for pregnancy or hurt by abortion

Health
8
Passionlife Ministries Inc

Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.

Religion
9
Pregnancy Care Center

The pregnancy care center empowers individuals to make life-affirming decisions through education, medical services, counseling, and compassionate care based on the ministry of jesus christ.

Human Services
10
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
11
Hope Life Center

A christ centered organization dedicated to erasing abortion from illinois one woman and one child at a time.

Health
12
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifesong for Orphans Inc; the most unlike its peers is Milk & Honey Ministries Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MORNING CENTER: $3,808,506 · HealthMORNING CENTERChristian Healthcare Centers Inc: $447,475 · HealthChristian Healthcare Centers IncASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS: $321,125 · OtherRICHWOODS CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $27,500 · Other+2 more: $15,000 · OtherALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $177,500 · Civil RightsLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $95,000 · InternationalMILK & HONEY MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · InternationalILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE: $35,000 · ReligionThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $20,000 · ReligionDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $10,450 · ReligionPARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$4,255,981Other$363,625Civil Rights$177,500International$105,000Religion$65,450Human Services$20,000Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMORNING CENTER: $3,808,506 over 8y, 91% of budgetChristian Healthcare Centers Inc: $447,475 over 5y, 24% of budgetASSOCIATION OF PRO-LIFE OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS: $321,125 over 6y, 25% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $177,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC: $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetThe Colson Center for Christian Worldview: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP: $10,450 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERTREE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMILK & HONEY MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
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.

American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ministries International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samaritan Ministries International. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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