Oregon · Public charity
Mercy Corps
Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
- $153M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 89%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $107k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $383M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 89% of the organizations Mercy Corps funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k 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 | 10 | $97k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $475k | 89% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland State University Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cultural Wellness Center | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Peoples Housing Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Brownsville Partnership Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Mercy Enterprise Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Homes and Hope Community Land Trust | $45,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Tulsa Economic Development Corporation | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Philips School and Community Center | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland State University Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cultural Wellness Center | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Peoples Housing Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Brownsville Partnership Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Mercy Enterprise Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Homes and Hope Community Land Trust | $45,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Tulsa Economic Development Corporation | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp | $45,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Philips School and Community Center | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Team Rubicon Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Comunidad Corcovada | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Love City Strong Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Waves Ahead Corp | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Flor de Loto Montessori Corp | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Guardarraya Unidos Por Un Patrimonio Educativo Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Comite Desarrollo Social y Cultural Daguao Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Asociacion Pro Juventud y Comunidad de Barrio Palmas Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tenedor Social Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fundacion Bucarabon Inc | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mercy Corps supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Mercy Corps
- How much does Mercy Corps give?
- Mercy Corps reported 11 itemized grants totaling $106,500, out of $152,785,099 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mercy Corps fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (42%), Housing & Shelter (27%), Public Safety & Disaster (18%).
- Who are Mercy Corps's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Portland State University Foundation ($100k), Cultural Wellness Center ($75k), Peoples Housing Inc ($75k).
- Does Mercy Corps fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mercy Corps?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Enterprise Community Partners Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Mercy Corps based?
- Mercy Corps is based in OR.
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