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Samaritan's Purse
SAMARITAN'S PURSE is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 59 grants below total $13,163,006 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $401,666,871 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $388,503,865 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $601k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+9 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SERVINGHIM HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL | $3,000,000 |
| JAARS INC | $2,800,000 |
| THE MAILBOX CLUB INC | $2,000,000 |
| MISSIONARY FLIGHTS INTERNATIONAL | $1,000,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC | $650,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $500,000 |
| WORLDVENTURE | $493,094 |
| KENAI CLASSICAL INC | $250,000 |
| RIO GRANDE BIBLE INSTITUTE INC | $250,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN HEALTH SERVICE CORPS | $227,908 |
| GOODWORD PARTNERSHIP | $210,000 |
| MONTREAT COLLEGE | $195,000 |
| SERGE GLOBAL INC | $172,341 |
| FRONTIERS | $150,000 |
| WORLD GOSPEL MISSION | $116,010 |
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 (FY18–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Grants abroad, by region — $379M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $379M to organizations and $532k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: MEDICAL ASSISTANCE · COMMUNITY DEVELOP. · CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF · CHRISTIAN EDUCATION · CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
Stated purpose: CHILDREN'S MINISTRY · MEDICAL ASSISTANCE · COMMUNITY DEVELOP.
Stated purpose: COMMUNITY DEVELOP. · EMERGENCY RELIEF · CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF · COMMUNITY DEVELOP. · CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Stated purpose: UKRAINE-MEDICAL ASST · UKRAINE-CHRIST EDUC · UKRAINE-MISSION ASST
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF · CHRISTIAN EDUCATION · MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
Stated purpose: MEDICAL ASSISTANCE · EMERGENCY RELIEF · CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF · MEDICAL ASSISTANCE · CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
164 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 130 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- SHServingHIM Healthcare International Ministries2× · 2023–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +19% · 80% of their budget
- TMTHE MAILBOX CLUB INC2× · 2022–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +35% · 41% of their budget
MONTREAT COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- DGDEFENDER GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLCone grant, 2022 · $7.8M
- LGLA GRANGE AREA DISASTER RECOVERY TEAMone grant, 2018 · $3.0M · revenue -100% · 81% of their budget
- NONo One Left Behindone grant, 2021 · $650k · revenue -83%
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.
Religious
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…
To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Religious
Supporing missionaries worldwide
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
We expend every effort through biblical means to proclaim the message of jesus throughout the world to those who dont know him. we establish indigenous churches, train leaders, and serve the poor. we serve to introduce people and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Hope Indian Eskimo Fellowship and the most unlike its peers is Kewanee Welcomes. 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 30 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
141 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. 141 of the 590 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 ServingHIM Healthcare International Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE MAILBOX CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LA GRANGE AREA DISASTER RECOVERY TEAM ↗
- Who funds JAARS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN CRESCENT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Missionary Flights & Service Inc ↗
- Who funds MONTREAT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COASTAL BEND DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP ↗
- Who funds 4B DISASTER RESPONSE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA COUNTY LONG-TERM RECOVERY GROUP ↗
- Who funds WHARTON RECOVERY TEAM ↗
- Who funds Christian Health Service Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds No One Left Behind ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEHEMIAH'S VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Missionary Aviation Repair Center ↗
- Who funds CY-HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ICONNECT OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM AIR CORPS ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Aid Ministries ↗
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 Bolick Foundation · The Onestar Foundation · The Houston Food Bank · Tyndale House Ministries · Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc · The St Bernard Project Inc · Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund · Stoller Foundation · Gordon Christian Trust · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Church World Service Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community 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's Purse 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.
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.