Illinois · Nonprofit
SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,473 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($158,660). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $73M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $685k
- Net assets
- $51M
What Samaritan Ministries International does
Mission
To redeem health care by helping the body of christ love one another through sharing each other's health care burdens while experiencing authentic biblical community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Samaritan Ministries International (smi) is a religious community made up of member households dedicated to the christian great commission and applying those principles in unique ways to meet the needs of our community, and by example, those of the greater community. Membership is available to any and all professing christians who are in agreement with our statement of faith and commitment to biblical living without barrier due to age, physical condition, or prior ailments. A significant portion of our members are subsisting on very low income, and almost all member households have no health insurance. Total membership households as of june 30, 2025, was 77,809 households, including about 265,300 people. Smi has members residing in all 50 states as well as several countries abroad. A significant portion of the members are employed as church ministers and church staff, in para-church ministries and other charitable organizations. Smi publishes and distributes a monthly "christian health care newsletter," containing articles on various topics applying a christian world view to all of life, spiritual issues, health care, the religious ministries of the organization, and the religious…
$38,448,013 spentof which $1,472,170 as grants$36,191 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $38,448,013.
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 2017 to 2018, from $57M to $65M (+15%).
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.
98% of SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% 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
Mark Zander
President/CEO
Board chair
Jim Taggart
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $116k → $39k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 INTERNATIONAL’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 INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
75% 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 INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 49% · 2019 46% · 2020 28% · 2021 32% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
65% of SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL'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 $241k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $445k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL: 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 MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL?
- SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $685,473 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($158,660). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $685,473 in grants to SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $158,660 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMARITAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL 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.
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 27 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