Mississippi · Nonprofit
GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC
GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,339 to it, the largest being ERGON FOUNDATION INC ($45,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $189k
What Good Samaritan Center Inc does
Mission
To assist families and individuals overcome economic and social disadvantage by providing nurture, support, and empowerment; especially but not exclusively, as it focuses on assissting in emergency situations.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Social servicesgood samaritan center focuses on families in crisis and a great number of these families require basic needs assistance. The organization's largest basic need program helps families with clothing items that they cannot afford. The program helps families recovering from fires, burglaries, and shelter stays.the second largest basic need program is the food assistance program where donated and purchased food items are given to families. These families can have a verifiable food crisis of have recently begun the application process for public food assistance through the department of human services.the furniture and household program assists families in crisis (fire, burglary, domestic violence, ect.) as well as low-income families with used household items donated to our nonprofit. This assistance is given after household members meet and are counseled by a case manager.in the financial assistance programs, good sameritan's case management team strives to make a "long-term" difference in a person's life by using the occasion of "short-term" assistance. In these programs verifiable emergency is required as well as a plan to help get the client out of the crisis. Case…
$992,163 spent100% of program spendingCommunity soup kitchen and meals with wheels:the community soup kitchen, located in the heart of the downtown low-income residential section of laurel, ms serves hot meals monday thru friday from 11 till 1 pm. No payment or screening is required for this service and all members of the community are welcome to come to eat a nutritious meal and fellowship with others in a safe friendly enviorment.
$1,971 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $994,134.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $529k to $870k (+64%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 6% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kathleen Clem
Executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $22k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 71% · 2019 91% · 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 45% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
20% of GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $59k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC's revenue fell 37% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,790 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC
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In Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC?
- GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC (Mississippi) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,339 to it, the largest being ERGON FOUNDATION INC ($45,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $120,339 in grants to GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC?
- ERGON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing