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The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation

To inspire philanthropic investment in the health and well-being of seniors served by the society and exempt entities. With foundation expenses covered by sanford health, 100% of donor funds advance health care, medical and educational services.

$9.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$601,466
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,194,115
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$102M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $410k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesReligionPublic BenefitPhilanthropyHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$6.6M25%
FY20237$8.0M86%
FY20226$5.3M83%
FY20212$5.3M50%
FY20201$6.1M0%
FY20191$2.7M0%
FY20181$2.2M0%
FY20171$2.4Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$38MPhilanthropy$3.0MHousing & Shelter$418kPublic Benefit$239kHuman Services$179kReligion$135k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
WI
OR
SD
IN
KY
WV
KS
AR
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society$37,000,34181%
Sanford$405,3602n/a
City of Mott$226,8281n/a
Leadingage Inc$211,19111%
Spokane Baptist Association Homes$197,19026%
Friendship Manor Inc$172,62211%
Sanford$144,5611n/a
Episcopal Church Home Foundation Inc$75,365112%
Fairfield Glade United Methodist Church$60,0001n/a
Eagles Healing Nest$12,26311%
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All grantees of The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society$37,000,34181%
Sanford$405,3602n/a
City of Mott$226,8281n/a
Leadingage Inc$211,19111%
Spokane Baptist Association Homes$197,19026%
Friendship Manor Inc$172,62211%
Sanford$144,5611n/a
Episcopal Church Home Foundation Inc$75,365112%
Fairfield Glade United Methodist Church$60,0001n/a
Eagles Healing Nest$12,26311%
Force for Good Fund Inc$11,627129%
Mountain Living Community Inc$9,54312%
CHAS Health Foundation$7,16810%
Topside Manor Inc$6,03910%

Where it is load-bearing

The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society: $37,000,341 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLeadingage Inc: $211,191 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSpokane Baptist Association Homes: $197,190 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFriendship Manor Inc: $172,622 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEpiscopal Church Home Foundation Inc: $75,365 over 1y, 12% of budgetEagles Healing Nest: $12,263 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetForce for Good Fund Inc: $11,627 over 1y, 29% of budgetMountain Living Community Inc: $9,543 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCHAS Health Foundation: $7,168 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTopside Manor Inc: $6,039 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

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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.

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About The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation

How much does The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation give?
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $9,507,010 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (91%), Philanthropy (7%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
Who are The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society ($37M), Sanford ($405k), City of Mott ($227k).
Does The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation based?
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation is based in SD.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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