Skip to content

Illinois · Private foundation

Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$270k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$270k71%
FY20246$335k67%
FY20233$83k0%
FY20222$153k50%
FY20219$515k44%
FY20205$553k80%
FY20193$300k33%
FY20183$291k67%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.7MPhilanthropy$300kHousing & Shelter$250kCommunity Improvement$100kCrime & Legal$75kEducation$50kHealth$10kInternational$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
IN
OH
TN
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fraternite Notre Dame Inc$1,217,5008n/a
Nashville Predators Foundation$300,00036%
Primo Center for Women & Children$200,00021%
Leadership Roundtable Inc$125,00032%
Sunshine Gospel Ministries$125,00026%
Canons Regular of St John Cantius$115,00038%
Institute for Entreprenuership$100,0001n/a
Lawndale Christian Legal Center$75,00012%
Collective Chicago$50,000113%
Northridge Preparatory School Inc$25,00020%
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fraternite Notre Dame Inc$1,217,5008n/a
Nashville Predators Foundation$300,00036%
Primo Center for Women & Children$200,00021%
Leadership Roundtable Inc$125,00032%
Sunshine Gospel Ministries$125,00026%
Canons Regular of St John Cantius$115,00038%
Institute for Entreprenuership$100,0001n/a
Lawndale Christian Legal Center$75,00012%
Collective Chicago$50,000113%
Northridge Preparatory School Inc$25,00020%
San Damiano College for the Trades$25,00014%
Unfinished Inc$25,00011%
Ethos National$25,0001n/a
Coalition for Canceled Priests$15,00012%
Informed Consent Action Network$10,00010%
Heartbeat International Inc$5,00010%
Volunteers of America of Illinois$1,0001n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($210k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNashville Predators Foundation: $300,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetPrimo Center for Women & Children: $200,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLeadership Roundtable Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSunshine Gospel Ministries: $125,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCanons Regular of St John Cantius: $115,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetLawndale Christian Legal Center: $75,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCollective Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNorthridge Preparatory School Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSan Damiano College for the Trades: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUnfinished Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCoalition for Canceled Priests: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetInformed Consent Action Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeartbeat International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Polk Bros Foundation IncIL13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Greater Chicago Food Depository · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation with peer funders

About Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation

How much does Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation give?
Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (65%), Philanthropy (11%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fraternite Notre Dame Inc ($1.2M), Nashville Predators Foundation ($300k), Primo Center for Women & Children ($200k).
Does Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, Greater Chicago Food Depository, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc.
Where is Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation based?
Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Declaration of Tr Establishing St Rita Mercy’s filings →

More from the funding graph