New York · Nonprofit
SAMARITAN CENTER INC
SAMARITAN CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,102 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($338,650). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Samaritan Center Inc does
Mission
To coordinate efforts of volunteers to serve food to those in need and to educate the public about the needs of the poor and hungry in the city of syracuse.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2024-2025 fiscal year, samaritan served almost 123,000 meals for those in need. This number represents an approximate 13% increase from the previous fiscal year. This work is accomplished through the dedication of 9 staff and the assistance of approximately 1500 community volunteers a month, including over 100 community groups assisting in meal service. Meals continue to be provided twice a day, without questions or pre-conditions. We continue to provide additional take-home food resources for guests as they become available- fresh produce, and canned goods especially, providing increased food resources for our guests and their families. In addition to meals, almost 100 individuals were assisted through our case management services with issues related to substance misuse, housing, employment, benefits, and mental health support. Samaritan developed new office space in 2024 to support expansion of its case management program during 2025-2026, allowing us to provide additional support in our guests' journies toward self-sufficiency. An msw program director has been hired and plans are in place to bring on student interns to assist in the work, as well as support the…
$863,932 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $863,932.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.5M to $5.0M (+43%).
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: 2021 6% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Mary Beth Frey
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $90k → $165k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 SAMARITAN CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
SAMARITAN CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% 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 SAMARITAN CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 41% · 2019 60% · 2020 34% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — 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
35% of SAMARITAN CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
97% of SAMARITAN CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $472k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like SAMARITAN CENTER INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAMARITAN CENTER INC?
- SAMARITAN CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,102 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($338,650). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAMARITAN CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,344,102 in grants to SAMARITAN CENTER INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMARITAN CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $338,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMARITAN CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Samaritan Center →
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 38 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