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The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society

Good samaritan is committed to the healthcare needs of the communities that it serves and strives to be the premier rural health system in the united states.

$154k
Granted FY2021
1
Itemized grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$130k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$129,657
Largest grant, FY2021
$129,657
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$970M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20211$130k0%
FY20203$172k33%
FY20193$70k0%
FY20184$5.5M0%
FY20175$4.4Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$9.7MHealth$327kInternational$120kHuman Services$50kPhilanthropy$18k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation$9,721,929239%
Sanford$269,6232n/a
Evangelical Alliance Mission$93,4074n/a
World Mission Prayer League Inc$84,2804n/a
Sioux Empire United Way Inc$58,56830%
Senior Companion Fund$9,08315%

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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About The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society

How much does The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society give?
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society reported 1 itemized grants totaling $129,657, out of $153,997 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Religion (95%), Health (3%), International (1%).
Who are The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Foundation ($9.7M), Sanford ($270k), Evangelical Alliance Mission ($93k).
Does The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society based?
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society 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 6 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $831k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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