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Mercy Corps

Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.

$153M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Community Improvement$305kHousing & Shelter$195kPublic Safety & Disaster$132kEducation$100k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $106,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $152,785,099 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $152,678,599 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$383M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Waves Ahead$10,000
Associacion Pro Juventud y Comunidad Barrio Palmas de Catano (APJ)$10,000
Tenedor Social$10,000
Guardarraya Unidos por un Patrimonio Educativo Incorporado (GUPE)$10,000
Comit Social y Cultural Daguao$10,000
Love City Strong Inc$10,000
Comunidad Corcovada$10,000
Flor de Loto$10,000
St Croix Foundation for Community Development$10,000
Centro de Microempresas Y Tecnologias Agricolas Sustentables de Yauco Inc ($10,000
Fundacion Bucarabon$6,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER: $75k → 11%Team Rubicon: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC: $45k → 14%THE BROWNSVILLE PARTNERSHIP: $75k → 20%ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL&COMMUNITY CENTER: $45k → 14%TULSA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45k → 15%GRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45k → 21%Mercy Enterprise Corporation: $50k → 12%HOMES AND HOPE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $45k → 9%PEOPLE'S HOUSING: $75k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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MN
MI
NY
OR
CA
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TX

Grants abroad, by region — $147M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $113M to organizations and $34M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$64M · 44% · 46 grants · 715562 people

Stated purpose: To unlock the potential of 25 young female climate leaders to contribute to climate action by fostering a cadre of well-equipped, motivated, and connected climate champions to drive impactful climate action within their communities and on the global stage. · To boost the availability of fertilizer in the target areas through a voucher scheme which will focus on target food small/medium scale farmers in the target areas who represent the backbone of staple crop production in Sudan. The fertilizer vouchers scheme will majorly target new areas of Gedaref & Kassala States. Coupons may also be offered in previously targeted areas that have been hard hit by the ongoing war to enable recovery and resilience of farmers and local agent system. · Food Assistance: Contribute to a reduction in mortality and morbidity for food insecure households through unrestricted cash assistance Health: To improve immediate access to free, quality emergency medical care to internally displaced populations and host communities Nutrition: To contribute to a reduction in mortality and morbidity by increasing access, coverage, use and quality of Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition Protection: To increase individual and community levels of safety and well-being through community based psychosocial support intervention Shelter & Settlements: Improve access to emergency shelter for newly displaced populations WaSH: Improve access to emergency WASH services for conflict affected populations

Russia and Neighboring States$35M · 24% · 8 grants · 2516 people

Stated purpose: Advance inclusive economic growth though democratizing digital transformation and online safety for women in business. · Improve literacy outcomes and health and nutrition practices of school aged children. · Improve literacy, increase student attendance, and improve the health and nutrition of Uzbek preschool children.

Middle East and North Africa$19M · 13% · 18 grants · 82757 people

Stated purpose: To strengthen the capacity of four Syrian NGOs to continue delivering quality WASH and Food Assistance in NES and improve humanitarian responses and coordination across WoS. · Vulnerable, crisis-affected communities in NES are resilient to the short term impacts of the ongoing economic crisis, and are able to meet their basic food and non-food needs, and conflict-affected communities in NWS are able to meet their basic WASH needs, as well as improve humanitarian responses and coordination across WoS, while the capacity of local Syrian organizations throughout Syria is strengthened to plan and deliver similar quality humanitarian assistance. · Continuation of its emergency response work in Lebanon to meet the basic needs of IDP and host households.

South America$9.2M · 6% · 5 grants · 51656 people

Stated purpose: Advance the future of Venezuelan refugees and Colombians through collaborative programming that builds local capacity to increase access to critical legal, protection, health and psychosocial services, employment opportunities and livelihoods opportunities. · Advance the future of Venezuelan refugees and Colombians through collaborative programming that increases access to critical legal, protection, health, and psychosocial services, as well as livelihoods and financial inclusion opportunities. · Building a vibrant rural economy by advancing licit livelihoods, expanding land property rights, and strengthening producer associations to ensure sustainable access to markets in Tibu, Sardinata, and El Tarra, Norte de Santander.

South Asia$8.5M · 6% · 8 grants · 27617 people

Stated purpose: Build the confidence of stakeholders to use forecasting systems for AA for climate-induced floods, build communities' capacity to anticipate and cope with disasters, and increase the subnational governments' awareness for investment and use of AA as an effective mechanism to support the resilience of communities. · Build capacity of local governments and schools to self-procure foods and ensure provision of diversified and nutritious meals in an appropriate and sustainable manner. · Contribute towards addressing the prioritized but unmet, and often overlooked needs in the affected areas. Key activities: *Toilet construction and installation of hand washing stations. *Restoration of Water Supply System through CfW schemes *MPCA: Provide cash support through CVA *Shelter Top Up Support: Providing weather-friendly materials and construction assistance to families living in temporary shelters. *Nutritional Top-Up: Support and provide supplemental nutritional packages to vulnerable populations to address nutritional deficiencies and support overall health and well-being.

East Asia and the Pacific$6.8M · 5% · 14 grants · 95391 people

Stated purpose: Improved rural incomes, enhanced food security and improved livelihoods of irrigated smallholder farmers as a result of accessing agricultural information and financial services through ICT platform · Continuing WASH activities in NW and SE Myanmar. · Emergency assistance to displaced populations.

Central America and the Caribbean$3.5M · 2% · 3 grants · 29729 people

Stated purpose: Focus on youth participation in peacebuilding and conflict prevention/management, with an overall objective of reducing agrarian, social and environmental conficts in a peaceful manner, while promoting the leadership of excluded youth in the Polochic Valley. · Improving food security and resilience of vulnerable households in the departments of West, Nippes, Grande-Anse by supporting them to meet their urgent food security needs, improve their livelihoods, recover from and respond to climatic and socio-political shocks and stressors. · Promote the transition from conventional agriculture to a regenerative agriculture system that will articulate relationships between producers and multiple stakeholders, ultimately providing solutions that promote resilient agriculture, access to national and export markets, contribute to agricultural research to show productivity relationships through the use of organic products and the implementation of a model that generates community investment opportunities to improve the livelihoods and well-being of producers and their families.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Instituto Para El Desarrollo Socio Economico Y De Vivienda De Pr Inc

Development activities, projects of housing and socioeconomic development to assist low and moderate income comunities in puerto rico.

Housing & Shelter
2
Fort Lauderdale Community Development Corporation Inc

Provide low income housing to disadvantage people in the community. Also, provide opportunities enabling them to own and manage business enterprises in economically depressed neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
3
Puerto Rico Community Foundation Inc

To develop the capacities of the communities in Puerto Rico to achieve their social and economic transformation, stimulating philanthropic investment and maximizing the yield of each contribution.

Philanthropy
4
The Non-Profit Community Developmen Corporation of Dc

Npcdc's mission is to initate, sponsor and operate housing and economic development projects that create economic stability and upward mobility for low-income families in metropolitan washington, dc.

Housing & Shelter
5
Don Pedro Development Corporation

The development of affordable housing and other real estate projects as well as redevelopment activities that contribute to the revitalization of newark's communities.

Housing & Shelter
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Affordable Housing Fund for Puerto Rico Inc

Economic, social and community development

Housing & Shelter
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South Portland Housing Development Corp

Low-income housing

Housing & Shelter
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Habitat for Humanity of Puerto Rico Inc

A non for profit organization that works in partnership with donors, volunteers, and homeowners of all backgrounds to build, remodel, and rehabilitate decent and affordable housing for those in need.

9
Departamento De La Comida De Puerto Rico Inc

Is non-profit, non-government collective for the advancement of sustainable, resilient and regenerative food projects in puerto rico.

Human Services
10
Puerto Rico Neighborhood Housing Services Corp

Revitalize declining communities by providing financing to improve residents houses in the area. provide orientation and seminars of self help to families. provide orientation to persons in the process of foreclousure.

Housing & Shelter
11
Caribbean Regenerative Community Development

Founded in 2021, caribbean regenerative community development (crcd) is a not-for-profit organization that aims to implement on the ground efforts to advance the regeneration of puerto rico's natural resources and communities. its goal is…

Environment
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Help Development Corp

Help development corp. believes that all people deserve a safe, affordable, stable place to live, and that developing and managing low-income and supportive housing is the best way to achieve that goal.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peoples Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Flor De Loto Montessori Corp. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEOPLES HOUSING INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLES HOUSING INCBROWNSVILLE PARTNERSHIP INC — $75,000 · Housing & ShelterBROWNSVILLE PARTNERSHIP INCHOMES AND HOPE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES AND HOPE COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORPCOMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF THE CAPITAL REGION IN…PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONMERCY ENTERPRISE CORPORATION — $50,000 · OtherMERCY ENTERPRISE CORPORATIONST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 · OtherST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENT…TENEDOR SOCIAL INC — $10,000 · OtherCentro de Microempresas Y Tecnologias Agricolas Sustentables de Yauco Inc ( — $10,000 · OtherComunidad Corcovada — $10,000 · OtherGUARDARRAYA UNIDOS POR UN PATRIMONIO EDUCATIVO INC — $10,000 · OtherCULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER — $75,000 · HealthCULTURAL WE…TULSA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $45,000 · Community ImprovementTULSA ECONO…COMITE DESARROLLO SOCIAL Y CULTURAL DAGUAO INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCOMITE DESA…ASOCIACION PRO JUVENTUD Y COMUNIDAD DE BARRIO PALMAS INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementASOCIACION …FUNDACION BUCARABON INC — $6,500 · Community ImprovementFUNDACION B…TEAM RUBICON INC — $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLOVE CITY STRONG INC — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterST CROIX FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFLOR DE LOTO MONTESSORI CORP — $10,000 · EducationWaves Ahead Corp — $10,000 · Human Services
Housing & Shelter$285,000Other$235,000Health$75,000Community Improvement$71,500Public Safety & Disaster$35,000Philanthropy$10,000Education$10,000Human Services$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL WELLNESS CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPEOPLES HOUSING INC — $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBROWNSVILLE PARTNERSHIP INC — $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMERCY ENTERPRISE CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTULSA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOMES AND HOPE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $45,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetGRANDMONT ROSEDALE DEVELOPMENT CORP — $45,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LOAN FUND OF THE CAPITAL REGION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE CITY STRONG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASOCIACION PRO JUVENTUD Y COMUNIDAD DE BARRIO PALMAS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Enterprise Community Partners IncMD15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enterprise Community Partners Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mercy Corps funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 23%
  • Tulsa Economic Development Corporation23% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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