· Public charity
Mercy Health
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $8,048,929 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,175,967 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,127,038 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $374k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $7.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation | $7,018,713 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $547,500 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $50,000 |
| DEPAUL CRISTO REY High School | $48,000 |
| HEALTHY MOMS & BABES | $40,000 |
| TOLEDO ROADRUNNERS CLUB | $29,000 |
| BLACK AND WHITE CANCER SURVIVORS FDN | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $18,500 |
| FAMILY SVC SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| CLERMONT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $17,631 |
| TENDER MERCIES | $15,000 |
| PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| LPGA FDN | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $13,500 |
| MT CARMEL CEMETERY FUND | $13,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Mercy Health’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
- BSBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $18M · revenue +208%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $911k · revenue +33%
- HMHealthy Moms & Babes Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $285k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SOSISTERS OF THE HUMILITY OF MARYone grant, 2017 · $2.5M
- SOSISTERS OF MERCY OF THE AMERICAS SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2017 · $150k
- FCFairfield City School Districtone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
The cbc is an organization of chief executives of the greater cincinnati area committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues the members consider especially important to the long-term economic vitality and well-being…
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To solve critical business challenges in order to create vibrant economic opportunities for all in our region.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
The hospital council of northwest ohio is a member-driven organization that represents and advocates on behalf of its member hospitals and health systems, and provides collaborative opportunities to enhance the health status of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Toledo Roadrunners Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
50 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. 50 of the 67 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.
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 Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Healthy Moms & Babes Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds BLACK AND WHITE CANCER SURVIVORS FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BOND HILL ROSELAWN COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Toledo Roadrunners Club ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LPGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREST HILLS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYFIELD EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO ALLIANCE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PERRYSBURG AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CLERMONT COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH JUNIOR COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds TALBERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ZERO PROSTATE CANCER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN PERRYSBURG INC ↗
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: Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Millstone Fund · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr 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 Health 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.