· Private foundation
The Good Samaritan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $60,000 |
| GOD'S PIT CREW | $50,000 |
| BAPTIST'S ON MISSION | $50,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN | $10,000 |
| THE BRIDGE MINISTRY OF NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| THOMPSON CHILD FAMILY FOCUS | $7,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK-METROLINA | $7,500 |
| HOSKINS PARK MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| HARVEST CENTER OF CHARLOTTE | $7,500 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCE | $6,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VA | $6,000 |
| NASHVILLE RESUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| FEED MY LAMBS | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Good Samaritan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 53% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2019–2024 · $148k · revenue +151%
CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION5× · 2019–2023 · $139k · revenue +44%- NRNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION6× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TCTHOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +26%
- TWTEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADOone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CTCARITAS - THE HEALING PLACEone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Union mission ministries, inc. is set apart by the spirit of god to preach the gospel and meet physical and emotional needs through out west virginia through the provision of shelter, clothing, food, counseling, and structured programs for…
The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.
Our mission is to provide comprehensive life-sustaining and life-rebuilding services that promote healing from substance use disorder, mental health disorders, and homelessness.
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
Our mission is providing food, shelter, and hope through christian love
Our mission is to meet, through the power of jesus christ, the spiritual, educational, emotional, physical, social, and vocational needs of the whole person so that those who are hurting may become fully functioning members of society. the…
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…
We provide christ-centered, life-changing pathways for all people who are experiencing homelessness, hunger and addiction.
The Butte Rescue Mission is transforming lives in Jesus's name, offering assistance to those facing homelessness by providing food, shelter and clothing to restore individuals and reunite families, empowering them to reintegrate into…
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds GODS PIT CREW INC ↗
- Who funds HOSKINS PARK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S PLACE OF CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY LAMBS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 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.
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.
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