· Public charity
Mercy Foundation of Des Moines Iowa
We, mercy foundation of des moines, iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $3,335,470 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,709,340 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $373,870 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $184k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP | $2,161,773 |
| HOUSE OF MERCY | $351,286 |
| MERCY CLINICS INC | $308,591 |
| MERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES | $283,921 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON | $184,275 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - CENTERVILLE | $31,400 |
| MERCYONE NORTH IOWA MEDICAL CENTER | $8,246 |
| MERCY AUXILIARY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $5,978 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $8.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CHCATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $30M · revenue +26%
- HOHOUSE OF MERCY9× · 2017–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +13% · 29% of their budget
- MCMERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +47%
Funded once
- CLCHI LIVING COMMUNITIESone grant, 2017 · $8.5M · revenue +2%
- SOSTRANDS OF STRENGTH INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- AAABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp and the most unlike its peers is Strands of Strength Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CATHOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES - IOWA CORP ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds CHI LIVING COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds MERCY CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON ↗
- Who funds MERCY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - CENTERVILLE ↗
- Who funds MERCY AUXILIARY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds STRANDS OF STRENGTH INC ↗
- Who funds ABOVE AND BEYOND CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH SERVICES - IOWA CORP ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · 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 Foundation of Des Moines Iowa 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.
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.