Michigan · Nonprofit
SAMARITAS
SAMARITAS (Michigan) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,937,881 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($52,855,093). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $106M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $59M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Samaritas does
Mission
Serving people as an expression of the love of christ. We connect people with families and communities, empower them to live their fullest life possible, and create a ripple effect of transformation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Samaritas sold the final two senior living facilities in 2024. This will be the final year of the senior living services program for Samaritas.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Samaritas senior living offers retirement living for seniors with five communities in michigan. Our services include independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, memory support, and rehabilitation therapy or home care services. Our expert clinical teams will help evaluate individual needs to determine what program will best meet the needs of our residents, while also allowing for the most independence possible. As needs change, Samaritas senior living helps guide residents to ensure successful transitions of care. Our independent apartments in grand rapids give every senior the opportunity to capture the best of every day, find inspiration in an art or music class, enjoy a competitive game of cards, gain new insight from a visiting lecturer, or enjoy a night out on the town with neighbors. Our residents live life on their terms, enjoying what they want, when they want at Samaritas senior living. When our residents need increased supports, catered living provides the services of assisted living in our residents' apartment allowing our residents to continue to live in their home but have the security of 24-hour care. Samaritas senior living offers one community for assisted…
$31,213,758 spent$21,975,931 earned by the program39% of program spendingSamaritas has been providing services for children and families since 1934. We are the largest private foster care organization in michigan, with 11 regional centers in the lower peninsula. Foster care is a service provided to children from birth to age 18 who have been removed from their home because of risk of neglect or abuse. Foster families provide 24-hour care to children and help birth parents and children work towards family reunification. Samaritas staff providesupport, and the local family court reviews progress regularly. Our experienced staff are passionate about their desire to help foster families create a better life for the children in their care. (see schedule o for additional program details)in 2024, Samaritas served 2,067 domestic youth in our foster care program. 83% of our youth in foster care had 2 or fewer placements in foster homes. In addition to domestic foster care, through Samaritas' family preservation programs, we seek to guide parents toward creating a satisfying, nurturing home life for the entire family to keep children in their natural setting with their biological parents. Samaritas provides a continuum of services through our family preservation…
$27,530,256 spentof which $9,020,412 as grants$17,325,953 earned by the program34% of program spendingSamaritas' new american services help newly arrived refugees navigate their confusing and sometimes scary first months in the united states. As the largest refugee resettlement agency in the state and fourth largest in the nation, Samaritas has resettled thousands of people from dozens of countries in europe, asia, africa, the middle east and central and south america. Samaritas has been the michigan affiliate of lutheran immigration and refugee service (lirs) since the 1950s. With the support of the u.s. Department of state's reception and placement (r&p) program, Samaritas provides newly arrived refugees with the essential services and support they need to begin to rebuild their lives and take steps toward becoming u.s. Citizens. (see schedule o for additional program details)Samaritas provides each refugee with the support to obtain self-sufficiency and become contributors to society within one year of arrival. Our new american program services provide sponsorship of refugees and assistance with resettlement and job placement, in conjunction with lirs. Resettlement services provide core services such as reception, housing placement, cultural orientation, english as a second…
$21,305,977 spent26% of program spendingThe Samaritas family center westland provides shelter services for families, through a partnership of Samaritas and wayne county. We welcome: two-parent families, single mothers or fathers with children, and pregnant women who are homeless in wayne county. The center can serve up to 85 persons in 23 rooms at one time and includes a full-time childcare center. The emergency food assistance program (tefap) provides commodity foods to eligible low-income residents in western wayne county and in the downriver areas. The family center isfocused on helping families engage in the many services offered in order to leave the center with a permanent housing option. In 2024, the family center provided 52 families with temporary housing. In 2024, we served 66 individuals with developmental/intellectual disabilities (dd/id), including individuals with autism, down syndrome, mental illness and other dd/id diagnoses. This support is achieved by providing a licensed home and care for individuals or by providing community living support services in a person's own home. We have multiple locations throughout the state where we are able to arrange these services and supports. We also assist…
$629,743 spent$10,722,256 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $80,679,734.
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 2022 to 2023, from $81M to $62M (−24%).
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: 2017 33% · 2018 34% · 2019 36% · 2020 34% · 2021 41% · 2022 31% · 2023 13% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of SAMARITAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
David Lochner
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $9.1M.
21 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $41M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest West Michigan Partnership for Children). These are real filings, and they are not money SAMARITAS raised.
From the IRS filings of SAMARITAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
SAMARITAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 SAMARITAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 96% · 2019 91% · 2020 78% · 2021 90% · 2022 92% · 2023 87% — 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
40% of SAMARITAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
SAMARITAS draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
SAMARITAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 248 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 248 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding SAMARITAS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$24.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.2M
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 SAMARITAS
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 22 related entities
- Hope Development Solutions LLC · disregarded
- Adrian Village Gp LLC · disregarded
- Lakeview Cadillac Holding LLC · disregarded
- Danish Village Ldha LP · disregarded
- Danish Sub LP LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAMARITAS: 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 SAMARITAS?
- SAMARITAS (Michigan) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,937,881 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($52,855,093). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAMARITAS have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $58,937,881 in grants to SAMARITAS, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAMARITAS?
- LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $52,855,093 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAMARITAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 86 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