Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse, considered one of the largest charities in the United States, hit $1.2 billion dollars in revenue this year, the first Christian organization of this nature to do so, and is poised for an even bigger year in 2022.
By way of background, the organization has been operating for over 50 years, sends out tens of thousands of volunteers, trains hundreds of thousands of workers, provides medical aid and relief in war-torn hellscapes and the harshest of conditions, engages in large-scale relief efforts, and operates in over 100 countries. They also oversee Operation Christmas Child, which has given out over 150 million shoeboxes of children with toys (and frequently with gospel literature). Christians donating and giving charitably have paid for the whole effort almost exclusively, all being done at no cost to anyone receiving aid, given unconditionally without preconditions.
They’ve been particularly busy in Ukraine, and have been fundraising for that goal. If trends hold true, they will likely raise another $300 millions dollars over last year. Samaritan’s Purse estimates they’ve helped nearly 6 million Ukrainians with food, water, and medical supplies. They’ve been running an emergency field hospital for months, treating an estimated 18,000 patients and supporting a dozen other medical facilities. In the first five months of the invasion, they have distributed 21,000 metric tons of food in partnership with the local churches, constructed freshwater wells that provided more than 8.5 million liters of water, and transported more than 200 metric tons of medical supplies. According to the CP:
“The organization’s 160,000-square-foot warehouse and offices in North Wilkesboro employ 385 people who buy, repair, maintain and retrofit millions of dollars’ worth of medical equipment, generators and water filtration systems, much of them donated. The warehouse has six emergency field hospitals ready to ship, four with tents, hospital beds, anesthesiology equipment, X-ray machines, and surgical suites—all engineered to fold into a plane’s fuselage. There are also miles of plastic tarps, mountains of clothing and boxes full of small brown teddy bears with the Samaritan’s Purse logo—a cross inside a circle.
