Good Samaritan Project

Analysis

Good Samaritan Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2020, Good Samaritan Project reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.6m, spending 85% of its income. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2020, income fell from $1.9m to $1.8m (-0.5%), an average of -0.5% a year. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Good Samaritan Project sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sexual Assault Services of Northwest New Mexico Inc ($1.8m), Mercy Ministries of Laredo ($1.8m) and New York Cancer Foundation ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2020, revenue came from contributions and grants 74% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $999k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $193k, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 26 employees.