Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES
GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,445,505 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($575,250). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Good Samaritan Services does
Mission
Good Samaritan Services compassionately responds to those approaching or experiencing homelessness across lancaster and chester counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We empower our neighbors to transition from housing crises to stability through a personalized, relationship-based approach. By engaging the community, we provide a continuum of care tailored to each individual's unique needs. Our Program Good Sam offers a range of services designed to support individuals at various stages of housing insecurity: -Winter Shelter: Provides a safe space for individuals experiencing homelessness to sleep during the coldest months of the year. Guests receive a warm meal, shower facilities, and a warm bed. -Emergency Housing: Offer up to 60 days of housing to address basic needs and establish goals for individuals in crisis. -Transitional Housing: Supports individuals for up to six months as they work toward their goals while paying program fees (rent). -Affordable Housing: Provides up to one year of housing with increased independence for participants. -Supportive Housing: Offers three or more months of case management and support with rental assistance while participants live in their own housing. -Alumni Services: Provides ongoing support after participants reach stability to ensure long-term success. Additional Support To address the diverse needs…
$2,752,581 spent$187,816 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,752,581.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $3.7M to $4.3M (+18%).
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: 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 11% · 2022 2% · 2023 7% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Nate Hoffer
CEO
Board chair
John Torres
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $192k → $608k.
16 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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 SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
68% 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 SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 33% · 2019 24% · 2020 21% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 25% — 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
55% of GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
60% of GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES
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 Pennsylvania
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
90%
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 SERVICES: 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 SERVICES?
- GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,445,505 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($575,250). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $4,445,505 in grants to GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $575,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOOD SAMARITAN SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 62 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing