How much did I AM MERCY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of I AM MERCY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $14k
$10k–50k7 grants · $115k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
$250k+11 grants · $13M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$411M

Total assets

Largest grants

FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE$3,500,000
SAINT DENIS CATHOLIC CHURCH$2,156,666
PROJECT HOME$1,709,239
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY - RAPHAEL CENTER FOR NEURORESTORATION$1,666,668
PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS$1,000,000
SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY$1,000,000
CONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS US PROVINCE$500,000
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$500,000
BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY$500,000
PLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT PUERTO RICO$400,000
THE PAPAL FOUNDATION$350,000
THE EHLERS-DANOS SOCIETY$222,094
CRISTO REY NETWORK$200,000
SISTERS OF MARY WORLD VILLAGES FOR CHILDREN$189,792
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC$150,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 8% of I AM MERCY 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.

I AM MERCY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$37M · 17 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$37M

$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+153%

Still filing today

41%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

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PROJECT HOME
3× · 2022–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +12%
IM
INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS
2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +11%
CARING FOR FRIENDS
3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +451%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
LF
LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +473%
LP
LC PASTORAL SERVICES
one grant, 2022 · $600k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte

We are a christian ministry of charity, service and justice.

Human Services

Catholic Charities of Tennessee Inc

Following christ's example, we recognize the dignity of all people and serve our neighbors.

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Carlow University

Transformational higher educational opportunities for a diverse community.

Education

Catholic Charities Community Services

Helping our community's most vulnerable with solutions that permanently improve lives.

Human Services

Lutheran Social Services of

Stabilize lives during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.

Religion

Catholic Charities of the Diocese

Catholic charities provides human services to anyone in need, regardless of their faith.

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Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida

Catholic charities carries out the social mission of the catholic church in northwest florida to serve, empower, and advocate for vulnerable families and individuals of any race, religion, or national origin.

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Catholic Migration Services Inc

A not-for-profit legal services provider affiliated with catholic charities of brooklyn and queens and the roman catholic diocese of brooklyn, provides free legal services and know your rights education to low-income individuals regardless…

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Catholic Palliative Care Services Inc

Provides responsive end-of-life care to patients and families in broward and miami-dade counties.

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Cabrini Legacy Corporation

Former catholic institution of higher education dedicated to academic excellence, leadership development, and a commitment to social justice.

Education

Cathedral Towers Inc

Provide low income housing to the elderly

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Catholic Social Services Inc

Since 1945, catholic social services (css) has been a source of compassion, dignity, and hope for those christ calls us to serve throughout our community. serving over 10,000 individuals annually, our mission is supported by dedicated…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Leadership Institute and the most unlike its peers is Lodigiano Film Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/26

the rest of the field

6,105/78,136

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.

06the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

19/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$33,648,375Human Services$6,116,400Education$5,900,000Religion$1,690,445Food & Nutrition$500,000Philanthropy$100,000Health$9,000Crime & Legal$2,000

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.

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.

The Catholic Foundation of Greater PhilaPA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation I AM MERCY 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: METRODORA FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 872519730 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on METRODORA FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to I Am Mercy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to I Am Mercy Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

I AM MERCY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to I Am Mercy Foundation?

More from the funding graph

I AM MERCY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to I Am Mercy Foundation?

More from the funding graph