· Private foundation
Mercy Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWASIA | $53,000 |
| Guiding Light Islamic Ctr | $50,000 |
| Balsam Project | $28,000 |
| Islamic School of Louisville | $20,000 |
| Peace Dove | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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: 84% of grant dollars ($1.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($363k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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: 16% of all-years giving ($363k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +111% since the first grant, against -13% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ISISLAMIC SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $211k · revenue +111%
- UAUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +27%
- PHPURE HANDS INC2× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +800%
Funded once
- SFSAM'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- MPMULTI-AID PROGRAM - AHMAD RAHALone grant, 2017 · $81k
- SASYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -39%
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.
Develop long-term developmental projects aimed at providing a sustainable living for poor communities as well as supporting needy widows and orphans
Amel Foundation is most focused on addressing the dire situation caused by the war in Sudan and the need of Nine Million people who have been displaced as a result of the war, by providing them with food, shelter , water, and medical…
Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide
International Institute of Islamic Medicine (IIIM) acquires and disseminates knowledge of the rich history of Islamic medicine and fosters its contemporary application
Religious Organization, to pray and promote the religion, help refugees
SIP is dedicated to supporting, advancing, and protecting the civil and human rights of all people in Syria.In 2015, SIP established the Burnt Children Relief Foundation dedicated to healing the wounds of war
Human Rights Project
Isaad Foundation aspires to preserve human dignity and to help achieve happiness, and to achieve the necessary needs for all individuals.
We provides medical assistance in disaster-affected and underserved areas, supports refugees, supplies experts for relief efforts, promotes medical education, and collaborates with similar NGOs globally.
Sanad is a charity organiztion that intends to provide much needed humanitarian aid and development efforts to those whose lives and livelihoods have been affected by crisis.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 38 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 ISLAMIC SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HIRA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Without Limits ↗
- Who funds UNITED HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PURE HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Peace Dove ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITY CO ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CALL ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION 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 Arif Foundation · The Al-Harastani Foundation · The Alnour Foundation · Amin & Rubina Chikhalia Foundation · Dearborn Community Center · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mercy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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