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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.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$13MReligion$12MEducation$7.7MHousing & Shelter$5.7MHealth$4.2MInternational$3.0MArts & Culture$1.0MPhilanthropy$550kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
9
States reached
$411M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY$500,000
THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $2.0M → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1.9M → 22%DELAWARE COUNTY ADVOCACY & RESOURCE ORGANIZATION: $4k → 10%PROJECT HOME: $1.7M → 22%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
UT
MD
DC
OK
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 17 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
16

Total granted

$26M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+19%

Still filing today

47%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SO
    SISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +135%
  • CARING FOR FRIENDS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +54%
  • CL
    CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $190k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -9%
  • LF
    LODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -80%
  • LC
    L C PASTORAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $600k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
La Roche University

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.

Education
2
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
3
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

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,…

Education
4
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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5
Saint Joseph's University

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…

Education
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
7
Carlow University

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…

Education
8
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
9
Loyola University

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…

Education
10
University of Dayton

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…

Education
11
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

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.

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12
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Catholic Foundation of Greater Phila; 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.
05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
14/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARY: $5,000,000 · OtherSAINT CHARLES BORROMEO SEMINARYTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY - RAPHAEL CENTER FOR NEURORESTORATION: $3,333,336 · OtherTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY - RAPHAEL CENTER…SAINT DENIS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2,584,752 · OtherSAINT DENIS CATHOLIC CHURCHCONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS UNITED STATES PROVINCE INC: $2,000,000 · OtherCONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS UNITED STATES PRO…FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME: $1,000,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAMEPHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $1,000,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLSPLATFORM FOR SOCIAL IMPACT PUERTO RICO: $800,000 · Other+34 more: $2,958,207 · Other+34 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $11,601,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $3,500,000 · EducationFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLEINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $2,000,000 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS+4 more: $402,080 · EducationPROJECT HOME: $5,662,900 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOMEBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $450,000 · Human ServicesBROAD STREET M…+2 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC: $3,000,000 · InternationalLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000,000 · ReligionTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $500,000 · ReligionCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $190,445 · ReligionThe Becket Fund: $500,000 · Social ScienceCARING FOR FRIENDS: $500,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$18,676,295Education$17,503,080Human Services$6,121,400International$3,000,000Religion$1,690,445Social Science$500,000Food & Nutrition$500,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $11,601,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $5,662,900 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $3,500,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC: $3,000,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $2,000,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME: $1,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $500,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA: $500,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCARING FOR FRIENDS: $500,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $450,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetEHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY: $222,094 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $190,445 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE VERTICAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPLEX DISORDERS ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetOUR HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCORPORACION LA FONDITA DE JESUS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY ADVOCACY & RESOURCE ORGANIZATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NOTRE DAME CLUBS INC - PHILADELPHIA: $2,080 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation: $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 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.

  • 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 The Becket Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF GREATER PHILA ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR FRIENDS ↗
  • 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 LIVE VERTICAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMPLEX DISORDERS ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds OUR HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Connelly FoundationThe Bessemer Giving F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Kmj Family Founda…The Catholic Foundati…Raynier Institute & F…The Catholic Foundati…Wsfs Cares FoundationKnights of Columbus C…United Way of Greater…Vanguard Charitable E…Bny Mellon Charitable…
Connelly FoundationPA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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