Samaritan Hands Inc

Analysis

Samaritan Hands Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Maryville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Samaritan Hands Inc reported income of $314k and spending of $521k, spending 166% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $765k to $314k (-59%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Samaritan Hands Inc sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 64th percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Iraqi Childrens Hope ($314k), Elevating Christian Ministries Inc ($314k) and Wells4wellness ($314k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 93% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $6,423, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 1 employees.