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Gwynedd Mercy University

The organization's mission is as follows: a catholic university, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, our learning community prepares students for successful careers and meaningful lives in a global society.GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY is shaped by our catholic identity as well as our mercy heritage and charism, with programs…

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $54,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,693,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,639,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$150M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSEMONT COLLEGE$9,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$9,000
IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY$6,000
LASALLE UNIVERSITY$6,000
CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE$6,000
NEUMANN UNIVERSITY$6,000
HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY$6,000
ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY$6,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 44% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 6%NEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $6k → 10%CHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $6k → 22%ROSEMONT COLLEGE: $9k → 10%HOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $9k → 10%ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%LASALLE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
3
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
4
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
5
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
6
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
7
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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8
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
9
Siena University

Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…

Education
10
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

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11
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
12
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immaculata University; the most unlike its peers is Chestnut Hill College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
0/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $9,000 · EducationROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUSHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITYIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationIMMACULATA UNIVERSITYSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITYLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationLA SALLE UNIVERSITYNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationNEUMANN UNIVERSITYCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE
Education$54,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY FAMILY UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SALLE UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEUMANN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL COLLEGE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher EducationPA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium for Higher Education · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Maguire Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gwynedd Mercy University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gwynedd Mercy University. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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