Good Samaritan Foundation Inc

In 2020, the foundation reported 57 grants totaling $2,032,666. Grants ranged from $2,000 to $198,069, with a median of $17,683. The largest awards included Loucon Camp & Retreat ($198,069), Hillcrest Bruce ($151,900), Red Bird Clinic Dental ($150,000), Aldersgate ($147,974), and the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church Inc ($144,600). The stated purpose for each of these grants was to support the recipient organization’s mission.

The foundation’s filing listed an application form, a two-page maximum summary of the grant purpose and program, the organization’s directors and officers, proof of 501(c)(3) status, its current operating budget and most recent audit, and IRS Form 990 with schedules for the preceding two years, if filed. It also called for a grant budget summary and, for prior-year grantees, a one-page narrative on progress and successes. The filing listed March 1 as the deadline. These are details from the foundation’s 2020 filing; the foundation dissolved that year.

The Kentucky Conference’s Good Samaritan Ministries page describes a grant process in which applications are reviewed by the GSM team, recommendations go to the Conference board of trustees, and successful applicants are notified in writing before the grant cycle. It states that grants are for one year and require mid-year and final reports. Current program guidelines set request limits of $40,000 per organization or ministry area/team and $10,000 per local church, and exclude bricks-and-mortar projects, annual operating expenses, overhead, fundraising activities, office equipment, and youth athletic activities.