· Private foundation
I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY | $1,000,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS | $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 |
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 (FY22–24, $5.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 23% of I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 23 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M 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
- SOSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +39%
CARING FOR FRIENDS3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +54%- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $190k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAMEone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -9%
- LFLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -80%
- LCL C PASTORAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $600k
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.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
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…
Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…
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.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…
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.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
University is a 4 year private catholic institution, offering degrees in nursing, health/behavioral sciences, & humanities. the college is an integral part of the fmol health system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila and the most unlike its peers is Our House Ministries 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 37 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 58 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
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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds SISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME ↗
- Who funds LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ↗
- Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds EHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE VERTICAL INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds COMPLEX DISORDERS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Connelly Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Kmj Family Foundation · The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila · Raynier Institute & Foundation · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund
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 I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine 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.
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.