SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Registered charity 1001349 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Samaritan's Purse is a non-profit, Christian organisation providing church support and emergency relief and development assistance to the victims of war, famine, natural disaster, and disease, with the aim of demonstrating God's love to all and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £6.64m exceed the trustees' stated policy target of £572k to £857k. The charity reported a net income surplus of £1.03m for the year, supported by a cash inflow of nearly £2m, indicating strong liquidity and financial stability.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 5 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Samaritan's Purse (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Franklin Graham — President (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew March Lawrence · trustee of 1 other charity
• Donna Pierce · trustee of 1 other charity
• E David Beroth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Graham
• Justin Thomas Arnot · trustee of 1 other charity
• Merrill Littlejohn
• PAUL SABER · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Albania · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Eswatini · Iraq · Kenya · Kosovo · Kyrgyzstan · Liberia · Montenegro

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SAMARITANS OF EXETER MID AND EAST DEVON.

• SAMARITANS OF EXETER MID AND EAST DEVON income £153k
• SILOAM CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES LIMITED income £310k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD HOUSE OF JOY FOR ALL NATIONS income £117k
• THE PURI FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £81.8m
• ZAIMAH income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.