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Mercy Care

MERCY CARE exists to address and advocate for the comprehensive health of our members and families, including circumstances that impact their well-being, with special consideration for the underserved and those with complex health needsregardless of race, color, religion, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender…

$5.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$400k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$9.0MCommunity Improvement$7.1MHuman Services$3.9MEducation$3.2MHousing & Shelter$2.9MFood & Nutrition$2.3MRecreation & Sports$539kPhilanthropy$539kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $488k
  • $50k–250k38 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
$50,250
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$400,000
ACTIVATE FOOD ARIZONA$362,500
CLOUD COVERED STREETS$358,030
COPA HEALTH INC$250,541
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$250,000
UNITED WAY OF TUCSON AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC$250,000
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$199,281
PATHWAYS TO LEARNING$191,500
ROCK BOTTOM CONSULTING LLC$187,500
ARIZONA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOLS$177,500
GELLERT HEALTH LLC$175,000
CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA$163,500
RASA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION$150,000
THE JOY BUS$149,780
SOUTHWEST HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC$130,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ELEVATE CHARITIES: $22k → 10%AROUET FOUNDATION: $85k → 11%AROUET FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $131k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $100k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $20k → 15%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $11k → 15%DSQUARED HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS: $60k → 11%PIMA COUNCIL ON AGING: $11k → 15%A FOUND FUTURE INC: $50k → 11%OPEN HEARTS: $25k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $105k → 11%ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $92k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $56k → 11%THE STATE OF BLACK ARIZONA: $50k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $33k → 11%MARC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $12k → 11%CLOUD COVERED STREETS: $358k → 11%RYAN HOUSE: $28k → 11%MARC COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $10k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $100k → 11%PSA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AG: $15k → 11%CLOUD COVERED STREETS: $335k → 11%CIRCLE THE CITY: $25k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $100k → 11%CLOUD COVERED STREETS: $275k → 11%RESILIENT HEALTH: $25k → 11%HUSHABYE NURSERY: $98k → 11%CLOUD COVERED STREETS: $175k → 11%TANNER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $143k → 11%ARIZONA AUTISM UNITED: $79k → 11%RAISING SPECIAL KIDS: $15k → 11%ASA NOW: $12k → 11%ELAINE INC: $75k → 11%ELAINE INC: $70k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $225k → 11%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%OAKWOOD CREATIVE CARE INC: $400k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $105k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $75k → 11%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION ONE INC: $75k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE: $36k → 11%AREA AGENCY AGING - REGION: $30k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN: $21k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN: $18k → 11%ARIZONA HOUSING COALITION: $15k → 11%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

WA
NY
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
AZ
DC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 91 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
70

Total granted

$25M
$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

88%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AF
    Activate Food Arizona
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +408% · 68% of their budget
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +12%
  • CC
    CLOUD COVERED STREETS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +19% · 61% of their budget

Funded once

  • HS
    HEALTHMINE SERVICES
    one grant, 2024 · $1.6M
  • A
    ACCELgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $227k · revenue +26%
  • NO
    NEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH
    one grant, 2024 · $188k · revenue +12%
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
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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2
Codac Health Recovery & Wellness

Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.

—
3
Arizona's Children Association

The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.

Human Services
4
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
5
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
6
Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona

The Community Awareness Resource Entity of Arizona (CareAz) is a community-based organization dedicated to reducing the harmful effects of substance use disorder through comprehensive prevention, treatment, recovery, and reentry support.…

Health
7
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
8
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
9
Nazcare Inc

To provide behavioral health consumer-operated support, education, training services, and housing support to mental health consumers of arizona

Health
10
Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center Inc

To make a meaningful difference through healthcare innovation and caring for the whole person.

Health
11
Canyonlands Community Health Center

The mission of canyonlands healthcare is to promote healthier lives through affordable, accessible, integrated primary care.

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12
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tanner Community Development Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Elliott Foundation Aka- the John Elliott Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

149 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. 149 of the 181 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/149
Grantees still filing
84/149
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALTH CURRENT: $1,200,399 · HealthHEALTH CURRENTMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,017,500 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCCOPA HEALTH INC: $1,013,270 · HealthCOPA HEALTH INCCOMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $650,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY BRIDGES INCSonoran Prevention Works: $492,000 · HealthSonoran Prevention WorksDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: $465,967 · HealthDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST…TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA: $458,500 · HealthTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSH…SOLARI INC: $390,000 · HealthVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $375,000 · Health+35 more: $2,385,825 · Health+35 moreHEALTHMINE SERVICES: $1,630,000 · OtherHEALTHMINE SERVICESTHE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATION: $582,200 · OtherTHE WHISPERING HOPE RANCH FOUNDATIONROCK BOTTOM CONSULTING LLC: $553,000 · OtherTERROS INC: $551,349 · OtherWestern Interstate Commission for Higher Education: $396,912 · OtherMMD ASSETS LLC MILES MOTEL: $377,502 · OtherUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $375,000 · OtherTeen Lifeline Inc: $402,750 · Other+77 more: $5,844,738 · Other+77 moreCLOUD COVERED STREETS: $1,202,030 · Human ServicesCLOUD COVERED ST…ST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $592,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH'S FOUN…OAKWOOD CREATIVE CARE INC: $406,000 · Human ServicesOAKWOOD CREATIVE…Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $375,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friends …HUSHABYE NURSERY: $298,000 · Human ServicesHUSHABYE NURSERYJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $274,709 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AN…Pima Council on Aging: $272,367 · Human ServicesPima Council on …+21 more: $1,215,885 · Human Services+21 moreUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,285,600 · EducationUniversity …Pathways To Learning: $903,000 · EducationPathways To…NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $425,141 · EducationNORTHERN AR…THE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $275,500 · EducationTHE FOSTER …ACCEL: $227,000 · EducationACCELARIZONA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $177,500 · EducationARIZONA AUT…+1 more: $28,500 · EducationActivate Food Arizona: $1,605,500 · Community ImprovementActivate F…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,250,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INIT…Tempe Community Action Agency Inc: $138,320 · Community Improvement+3 more: $45,774 · Community ImprovementPINNACLE PREVENTION CORP: $500,000 · Food & NutritionTHE JOY BUS: $149,780 · Food & NutritionFundamental Needs Inc: $75,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $327,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN AZ CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR INC: $225,000 · Crime & LegalCGA INC: $95,311 · Crime & LegalBRIDGES REENTRY INC: $67,100 · Crime & LegalPREVENT CHILD ABUSE ARIZONA: $59,380 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Health$8,448,961Other$10,713,451Human Services$4,635,991Education$3,322,241Community Improvement$3,039,594Food & Nutrition$799,780Crime & Legal$798,791

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetActivate Food Arizona: $1,605,500 over 6y, 68% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $1,285,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLOUD COVERED STREETS: $1,202,030 over 4y, 61% of budgetHEALTH CURRENT: $1,200,399 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,017,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCOPA HEALTH INC: $1,013,270 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPathways To Learning: $903,000 over 3y, 69% of budgetCOMMUNITY BRIDGES INC: $650,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION: $592,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTERROS INC: $551,349 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPINNACLE PREVENTION CORP: $500,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSonoran Prevention Works: $492,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY: $465,967 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP OF ARIZONA: $458,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $425,141 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOAKWOOD CREATIVE CARE INC: $406,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTeen Lifeline Inc: $402,750 over 3y, 29% of budgetWestern Interstate Commission for Higher Education: $396,912 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOLARI INC: $390,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $375,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUnited Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc: $375,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $327,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPECTRUM HEALTHCARE GROUP INC: $308,650 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMERCY HOUSING SOUTHWEST: $308,200 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCASA DE LOS NINOS: $304,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHUSHABYE NURSERY: $298,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE FOSTER ALLIANCE: $275,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $274,709 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPima Council on Aging: $272,367 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $266,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetACCEL: $227,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHERN AZ CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CTR INC: $225,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE ARIZONA PET PROJECT: $207,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $204,072 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC: $202,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD OUTREACH ACCESS TO HEALTH: $187,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH NETWORK: $186,700 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetNorthern Arizona Healthcare Corporation: $178,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA AUTISM CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $177,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRISMA COMMUNITY CARE (FKA SOUTHWEST CENTER HIV/AIDS INC): $171,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCandelen Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWEST VALLEY HEALTH EQUITY: $146,650 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $145,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetElaine: $145,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHuman Services Campus Inc: $145,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Virginia G Piper Char…Arizona Community Fou…Thunderbirds CharitiesThe Foundation for Co…BHHS Legacy FoundationValley of the Sun Uni…Phoenix Suns Charitie…The Diane and Bruce H…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Delta Dental Plan of …Banner HealthCommunity Foundation …
Virginia G Piper Charitable TrustAZ89× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Delta Dental Plan of Arizona Charitable Foundation and Trust · Banner Health · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona

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 Mercy Care funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Care. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 181 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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