· Public charity
Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation
To carry out the charitable and educational purposes of Bon Secours Mercy Health by providing grants in support of programs that carry out its charitable mission.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 54 grants below total $30,985,508 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $33,713,099 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,727,591 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $601k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+7 grants · $29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc | $24,571,675 |
| St Francis Hospital Inc | $2,119,118 |
| Bon Secours Community Works | $918,061 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $515,290 |
| Compassus BSMH Holdings LLC | $306,747 |
| Community Mercy Heath Partners | $290,930 |
| DIOCESE OF TOLEDO MANAGEMENT CORP | $250,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $215,000 |
| MERIDIAN HEALTHCARE | $208,037 |
| GLASS CITY COMMUNITY SOLAR | $182,500 |
| YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEV CORP | $150,000 |
| HOSPTIAL SISTERS MISSION OUTREACH CORP | $100,000 |
| METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION FOR BETTER HEALTH | $80,000 |
| Roper St Francis Healthcare | $80,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 51% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 96 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $122M · revenue +65%
- BSBon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $13M · revenue +25%
- SFSt Francis Hospital Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledograduatedone grant, 2023 · $800k · revenue +39%
- NONORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $744k · revenue +96%
- MHMercy Health Physicians Youngstown LLCone grant, 2019 · $733k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.
The hospice of dayton, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability to pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards. our…
Bon secours new york health system, inc. (bsnyhs) is the parent and central organization of an established integrated healthcare delivery system.
To provide compassionate, innovative and effective community-based care that promotes health, independence and dignity to those we serve in the northeast and central ohio.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Franciscan Social Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haven House Emergency Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
227 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 227 of the 339 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc ↗
- Who funds St Francis Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Mercy Health Partners ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Health ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPARKS TOLEDO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY FRANCISCAN SENIOR HEALTH AND HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDIAN HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFORWARD ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Toledo ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Mercy College of Ohio ↗
- Who funds LIVEWELL GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds MERCY FRANCISCAN SOCIAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWIVES FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SPORTS MED RES & EDU FND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley · The Stranahan Supporting Organization · Premier Bank Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Youngstown Fdn General · Promedica Health System Inc · Toledo Classic Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Area Agency On Aging of Pasco-Pinellas Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bon Secours Baltimore Community Works Inc — 3% of income from government
- BayCare Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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