· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $416k
- $250k+4 grants · $9.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY | $6,194,115 |
| ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,315,770 |
| DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $944,229 |
| OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $601,466 |
| SANFORD HEALTH | $232,828 |
| SPOKANE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION HOMES | $183,204 |
| DUBOIS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $24,959 |
| MOUNTAIN LIVING COMMUNITY | $9,543 |
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 (FY17–24, $37.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% 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
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TETHE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $37M · revenue +1%
- SSANFORD2× · 2023–2024 · $405k
- SBSPOKANE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION HOMES2× · 2023–2024 · $197k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MOTTone grant, 2022 · $227k
- LILEADINGAGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $211k · revenue +34%
- FMFRIENDSHIP MANOR INCone grant, 2022 · $173k · revenue +15%
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.
To fund the program and services of hospice of the nothwest to ensure dignified and compassionate care is available to anyone coping with a life-limiting diagnosis.one size doesn't always fit all, especially when it comes to quality of…
To create innovative opportunities to enrich the lives of older adults
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Garden Path Elder Living operates a residential care home for elders that provide assistance with daily living and nursing oversight.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society and the most unlike its peers is Force for Good Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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
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 THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADINGAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION HOMES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL CHURCH HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF VOLUSIA-FLAGLER COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds DUBOIS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLES HEALING NEST ↗
- Who funds FORCE FOR GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN LIVING COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHAS Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds TOPSIDE MANOR INC ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation 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.
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties Inc — 2% of income from government
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.