Illinois · Public charity
Mercer Foundation for Health
Provide assistance to area hospital and health care facilities to help maintain and improve healthcare in mercer county.
- $164k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $150k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $31,252
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Mercer Foundation for Health funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $150k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $191k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $92k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $92k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $355k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $61k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $223k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis Health System | $449,206 | 3 | 0% |
| Mercer County Health Dept | $95,667 | 2 | n/a |
| Genesis Medical Center Aledo | $10,785 | 1 | 0% |
| River Bend Food Reservoir | $8,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($609k), not named here.
About Mercer Foundation for Health
- How much does Mercer Foundation for Health give?
- Mercer Foundation for Health reported 4 itemized grants totaling $150,252, out of $163,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mercer Foundation for Health fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (76%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
- Who are Mercer Foundation for Health's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Genesis Health System ($449k), Mercer County Health Dept ($96k), Genesis Medical Center Aledo ($11k).
- Does Mercer Foundation for Health fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Mercer Foundation for Health based?
- Mercer Foundation for Health is based in IL.
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