Aligned for Impact with Matthew Naylor
Aug 10, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
Matt Naylor is joined by Brett Morris, founder of the Samaritan Fund, to discuss how a simple but transformative idea is helping employers reduce healthcare costs while providing financial relief to…
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And where are the funds coming from? How are they getting the funds to do what you're doing?
Yeah, that is an integral piece of our strategy and program because it has to be compliant.
And as an employer, you can't directly incentivize an employee to leave the plant.
You also can't indirectly incentivize, meaning you couldn't give my company money and then I turn around and give it to you, the employee.
It's a cumbersome and expensive step of making sure that all of the funds that go to our participants are from our third-party Samaritan sponsors.
It's other foundations and charities and uh the philanthropy industry calls what we're doing grant smithing we take a person's situation and we may source funds because we have funds for children cystic fibrosis we have funds for people in kansas we have depending on what situation they're in and so that's where we accumulate the funds and we put it in a package that is easy for them to use we have a samaritan fund program debit card that they just get the card, they're able to pay their bills and premiums with it.
And it makes it easy for them instead of dropping 20 grant applications in their lap and saying, hey, you got to fill all these out.
You have a member that's on an employer health plan and a high deductible that doesn't have the ability to keep up with their high deductible or...
And you have an employer that is spending a lot of money on care for that member.
I mean, we're able to move the needle in ways that I used to grind really hard as an advisor broker to try to cut costs.
And where are the funds coming from? How are they getting the funds to do what you're doing?
Yeah, that is an integral piece of our strategy and program because it has to be compliant.
And as an employer, you can't directly incentivize an employee to leave the plant.
You also can't indirectly incentivize, meaning you couldn't give my company money and then I turn around and give it to you, the employee.
It's a cumbersome and expensive step of making sure that all of the funds that go to our participants are from our third-party Samaritan sponsors.
It's other foundations and charities and uh the philanthropy industry calls what we're doing grant smithing we take a person's situation and we may source funds because we have funds for children cystic fibrosis we have funds for people in kansas we have depending on what situation they're in and so that's where we accumulate the funds and we put it in a package that is easy for them to use we have a samaritan fund program debit card that they just get the card, they're able to pay their bills and premiums with it.
And it makes it easy for them instead of dropping 20 grant applications in their lap and saying, hey, you got to fill all these out.
You have a member that's on an employer health plan and a high deductible that doesn't have the ability to keep up with their high deductible or...
And you have an employer that is spending a lot of money on care for that member.
I mean, we're able to move the needle in ways that I used to grind really hard as an advisor broker to try to cut costs.
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