· Private foundation
The Good Samaritan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $60,000 |
| BAPTIST'S ON MISSION | $50,000 |
| GOD'S PIT CREW | $50,000 |
| THE BRIDGE MINISTRY OF NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK-METROLINA | $7,500 |
| HOSKINS PARK MINISTRIES | $7,500 |
| THOMPSON CHILD FAMILY FOCUS | $7,500 |
| HARVEST CENTER OF CHARLOTTE | $7,500 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCE | $6,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VA | $6,000 |
| GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| CARITAS | $5,000 |
| FEED MY LAMBS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Good Samaritan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 53%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Good Samaritan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Good Samaritan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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