How much does Samaritan's Purse give?

Samaritan's Purse reported 148 itemized grants totaling $49,182,429, out of $522,747,262 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 309 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Samaritan's Purse fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Public Safety & Disaster (29%), International (11%).

Who are Samaritan's Purse's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Asheville Christian Academy Inc ($8.6M), The Mailbox Club Inc ($8.0M), Defender Global Solutions LLC ($7.8M).

Does Samaritan's Purse fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Samaritan's Purse?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bolick Foundation, The Onestar Foundation, The Houston Food Bank.

Where is Samaritan's Purse based?

Samaritan's Purse is based in NC.

Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's Purse at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Samaritan's Purse

SAMARITAN'S PURSE is a nondenominational evangelical christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world.

$523M

Granted FY2025still arriving

148

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8.6M

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.

Religion$47MPublic Safety & Disaster$28MInternational$11MHousing & Shelter$3.1MEducation$2.3MCommunity Improvement$2.1MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MOther$0

02FY2025 · 148 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 148 grants below total $49,182,429, the rows itemized in this filing. The $522,747,262 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $473,564,833 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 · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $42k
$10k–50k44 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k68 grants · $7.2M
$250k+30 grants · $41M

$71,736

Median grant

States reached

$2.9B

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ASHEVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC	$8,574,328
THE ROSSER FOUNDATION	$6,500,000
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP	$3,644,495
ADVENT CHRISTIAN VILLAGE INC	$3,033,729
THE MAILBOX CLUB INC	$3,000,000
KINGDOM OVERFLOW MINISTRIES	$2,591,332
LIFE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL	$2,000,000
LIBERTY CHAPEL CHURCH	$1,490,900
SOUTH ESTATOE BAPTIST CHURCH	$1,200,000
MOUNT MITCHELL BAPTIST CHURCH	$1,008,935
BROWNS CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH	$834,336
EAST GATES INTERNATIONAL	$650,000
ALLIANCE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP	$617,838
DYSON GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH	$500,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM	$500,000

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

Which US states its grants reach

Grants abroad, by region: $422M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $421M to organizations and $991k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$170M · 40% · 173 grants · 14 people

Stated purpose: MEDICAL ASSISTANCE · EMERGENCY RELIEF · CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

South America$60M · 14% · 32 grants · 17 people

Stated purpose: CHRISTIAN EDUCATION · CHILDREN'S MINISTRY · EMERGENCY RELIEF

Middle East and North Africa$48M · 11% · 138 grants · 29 people

Stated purpose: CHRISTIAN EDUCATION · EMERGENCY RELIEF · MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

Central America and the Caribbean$40M · 10% · 33 grants

Stated purpose: CHILDREN'S MINISTRY · EMERGENCY RELIEF · MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

East Asia and the Pacific$40M · 9% · 44 grants · 7 people

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RELIEF · MEDICAL ASSISTANCE · CHILDREN'S MINISTRY

North America (Canada and Mexico)$28M · 7% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: CHILDREN'S MINISTRY · MISSIONARY ASSIST. · EMERGENCY RELIEF

Russia and Neighboring States$26M · 6% · 57 grants · 6 people

Stated purpose: MEDICAL ASSISTANCE · EMERGENCY RELIEF · CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

South Asia$9.1M · 2% · 25 grants · 1 person

Stated purpose: CHILDREN'S MINISTRY · MEDICAL ASSISTANCE · EMERGENCY RELIEF

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$662k · 0% · 15 grants

Stated purpose: CHRISTIAN EDUCATION · CHILDREN'S MINISTRY · MISSIONARY ASSIST.

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. 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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$67M · 178 repeat orgs$80M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

178 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 139 since wound down; 109 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

178

409

Total granted

$67M

$41M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+8%

Still filing today

30%

12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

ReligionInternationalEducationHuman ServicesHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

TM
THE MAILBOX CLUB INC
3× · 2022–2025 · $8.0M · revenue +35% · 41% of their budget
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
7× · 2019–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +97%
MONTREAT COLLEGE
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +68%

Funded once

DG
DEFENDER GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC
one grant, 2022 · $7.8M
LG
LA GRANGE AREA DISASTER RECOVERY TEAM
one grant, 2018 · $3.0M · revenue -100% · 81% of their budget
NO
No One Left Behind
one grant, 2021 · $650k · revenue -83%

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.

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion

Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion

Christian Ministries International

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Vision International Missions

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…

Religion

Heart Bridge International

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…

Religion

Jesus in Vietnam Ministries

Religion

Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion

Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services

Discover Your Mission Inc

Supporing missionaries worldwide

Religion

Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion

All Nation Mission

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…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

160 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. 160 of the 699 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)

151/160

Grantees still filing

91/160

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$81,260,729Education$11,371,591International$7,861,129Philanthropy$7,448,248Religion$6,298,026Public Safety & Disaster$5,964,796Human Services$4,554,306

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.

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.

The Bolick FoundationNC22.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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's Purse funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samaritan's Purse. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home