Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SAMARITANS INC
SAMARITANS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,398,820 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,250,500). 75 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
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Samaritans Inc does
Mission
A non-religious, volunteer organization serving greater boston and metrowest, dedicated to reducing the incidence of suicide by befriending individuals in crisis, providing suicide loss grief support, and educating the community about effective prevention strategies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Crisis services: assists adults and teens in despair or distress in order to reduce the incidence of suicide. 9,015 calls and texts were answered monthly during this fiscal year. Calls are answered 24 hours per day.
$4,221,228 spent$2,442,261 earned by the program62% of program spendingGrief support services: provide support to those who have lost a lovedone to suicide. During this fiscal year, 4,986 individuals were supported through 225 safe place meetings and 196 surviovor-survivor visits.
$855,305 spent$523,341 earned by the program12% of program spendingCommunity education and outreach programs: provide education to groupsand individuals about reducing the incidence of suicide. During this fiscalyear, 206 workshops and 70 community events with suicide prevention workshops were held with 14,399 participants.
$726,117 spent$523,341 earned by the program11% of program spendingHey sam program: provides timely mental health support to teens and young adults via peer-to-peer texts. The hey sam textline has become a powerful tool for supporting young people experiencing mental health challenges. During this fiscal year, 4,918 texts were responded to.
$1,058,995 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,861,645.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $4.8M to $12M (+152%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of SAMARITANS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Kathleen C Marchi
President and CEO
Board chair
Jill Borelli
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $214k → $4.1M.
19 of 119 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 SAMARITANS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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
SAMARITANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 SAMARITANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 57% · 2019 35% · 2020 21% · 2021 20% · 2022 33% · 2023 59% — 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
58% of SAMARITANS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 SAMARITANS INC'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 $5.3M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
SAMARITANS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SAMARITANS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.7M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$8.6M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$5.1M
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 SAMARITANS 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SAMARITANS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC?
- SAMARITANS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,398,820 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,250,500). 75 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 SAMARITANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $15,398,820 in grants to SAMARITANS INC, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMARITANS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,250,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMARITANS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 119 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