Illinois · Nonprofit
GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES
GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,451 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($17,947). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $993k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $189k
What Good Samaritan Ministries does
Mission
The organization primarily provides food and shelter, emergency services and transitional housing to persons in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides emergency shelter to homeless individuals. These individuals may stay at the shelter up to 30 days. An extension may be granted the 30 day stay to allow more time for individuals to transition to housing. The emergency shelter served 233 people including 6 children and 17 veterans, for a total of 5,521 nights stayed.
$491,178 spentof which $84,251 as grants59% of program spendingThe organization provides transitional housing to homeless individuals until they are able to maintain their own housing. The residents are required to pay 30% of their gross income for rent. If they have no income, they apply for rent through the carbonale township. The transitional housing program served 30 people including 19 men, 11 women and 6 veterans for a total of 2,043 nights stayed.
$183,745 spent22% of program spendingThe emergency assistance program served 159 persons with rent or utilities to keep them in housing or place them in housing. Food pantry provides canned goods and perishables to people in need. The food pantry served 3,342 households during the fiscal year, including 9,931 individuals and 2,859 children. The soup kitchen served 32,562 meals to the residents of the shelter, transitional house and to hungry persons in the community.
$153,474 spentof which $113,749 as grants19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $828,397.
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 2024 to 2025, from $106k to $236k (+124%).
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: 2017 85% · 2018 81% · 2019 83% · 2020 59% · 2021 54% · 2022 61% · 2023 54% · 2024 61% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $113.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 55% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% 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 MINISTRIES: 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 MINISTRIES?
- GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,451 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($17,947). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $28,451 in grants to GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $17,947 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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