· Private foundation
The Samaritans Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRONE OF GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,416 |
| A CHOICE FOR LIFE INC | $1,708 |
| PRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC | $1,708 |
| BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC | $1,689 |
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 (FY18–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 92% 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.
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 +230% since the first grant, against +52% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- LCLove City Inc3× · 2018–2020 · $12k · revenue +83%
- NDNEW DAY MINISTRIES INC3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +873%
- PSPRACTICAL SHEPHERDING INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICALone grant, 2020 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- MJMANHOOD JOURNEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +58%
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.
Pursue Ministries has the mission to pursue an eternal impact by introducing others to Jesus Christ, teaching the Bible and training disciples through one-on-one meetings, small groups, resources, retreats and seminars.
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Church organization
Our mission is to make disciples of jesus christ by engaging indigenous pastors around the world. our vision is to train pastors and their congregants to share the gospel in a friendly, non-denominational approach across all ethnicities,…
Religious
Promote christian religion through conferences and group meetings.
Ministries church
Ministry & teaching
Childrens Home and Ministry in India
Christ-based ministry with the mission of bringing hope and encouragement with christ-like love to emotionally hurting people through mental health counseling and transitonal housing for homeless women with mental illness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Purdue Christian Campus House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children of the Americas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 40 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 Love City Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRACTICAL SHEPHERDING INC ↗
- Who funds A CHOICE FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRISONERS HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Bethel Ministries International ↗
- Who funds MANHOOD JOURNEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSEAS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE THY NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds PRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds PURDUE CHRISTIAN CAMPUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FURTHER STILL MINISTRIES 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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Price Foundation Inc · Elite Homes Charitable Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation 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 Samaritans Inc 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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