Alabama · Nonprofit
SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH
SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,355 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $129k
- Net assets
- $941k
What Samaritan Foundation Inc Dba Connection Health does
Mission
To improve healthcare access and workforce through community health worker (chw) training and youth health-career programs to alabama's underserved and black belt communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To improve healthcare access and workforce through community health worker (chw) training and youth health-career programs to alabama's underserved and black belt communities.
$1,906,355 spentof which $363,159 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,906,355.
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 $332k to $941k (+183%).
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 15% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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.
Chief executive
Trinita Ashford
Executive director
Board chair
Danielle Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $54k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH’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
SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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 SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH: 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 SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH?
- SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,355 to it, the largest being ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ($75,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $129,355 in grants to SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH?
- ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMARITAN FOUNDATION INC DBA CONNECTION HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 2 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