Good Samaritan Family Services

Analysis

Good Samaritan Family Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Ellsworth, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Good Samaritan Family Services reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.2m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $912k to $1.2m (+30%), an average of +6.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Good Samaritan Family Services sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 81st percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kool Kidz World Inc ($1.2m), Angelina County Senior Citizens Activities Inc ($1.2m) and Jewish Family Service of the Lehigh Valley ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $293k. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $26k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 11 employees.