Maryland · Nonprofit
Samaritan Ministries
Samaritan Ministries (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,589 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC ($203,062). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Samaritan Ministries runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Donnie Williams Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Athens Thrift Store Incportfolio match
- Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Incportfolio match
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.
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 41% · 2019 62% · 2020 71% · 2021 73% · 2022 54% · 2023 53% · 2024 56% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Samaritan Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $23k → $18k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 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
Samaritan Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Samaritan Ministries's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Donnie Williams Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- Athens Thrift Store Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harvest Texarkana Regional Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington Alliance for Quality Recovery Residencesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Sea Philanthropy USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arkansas Coalition Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid Willamette Valley Community Action Agencyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inter-Faith Food Shuttleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Athens Federal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Samaritan Ministries
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Samaritan Ministries?
- Samaritan Ministries (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,589 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC ($203,062). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Samaritan Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $205,589 in grants to Samaritan Ministries, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Samaritan Ministries?
- UNITED WAY OF THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE INC is the largest funder on record, with $203,062 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Samaritan Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing