· Private foundation
Lourdes 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAROD VANNI REHABILITATION ORGANIZATION FOR THE DIFFERRENTLY ABLED | $6,371 |
| PROVINCE OF ST AUGUSTINE | $5,384 |
| ST TERESA CHURCH | $1,956 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY BROTHERS | $1,000 |
| CHURCH OF ST RITA | $700 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR INC | $627 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $600 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $575 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $500 |
| AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED | $500 |
| BOYS TOWN | $450 |
| ST BONAVENTURE INDIAN MISSION AND SCHOOL | $400 |
| INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC MIGRATION COMMISSION | $400 |
| FRANCISCAN MISSIONS | $400 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 88% of grant dollars ($81k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($11k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 12% of all-years giving ($11k)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Lourdes Mercy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home4× · 2022–2025 · $1k · revenue +9%
- SHSETON HALL UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2023 · $1k · revenue +39%
Mercy Ships International3× · 2023–2025 · $565 · revenue +61%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +9%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR PEACEone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
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We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
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.
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.
Bon secours new york health system, inc. (bsnyhs) is the parent and central organization of an established integrated healthcare delivery system.
We, global health ministry and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. global health ministry is a member of trinity health.
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GLOBAL BRIGADES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION (IMHO) CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER OF MARY BOYSTOWN AND GIRLSTOWN INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The A&S Giancristofaro Family Foundation Inc · Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation · The Salem Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Rcp Foundation · The M J Saad Family Foundation · James J Capone Charitable Foundati · B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Gift Fund · Hakim Family Foundation · Anastasia & KR Jenkins Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lourdes Mercy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lourdes Mercy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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