How much did Mercy Health grant in FY2019?

Religion$18MHealth$1.5MHuman Services$100kPhilanthropy$96kArts & Culture$95kRecreation & Sports$75kEducation$72kCommunity Improvement$51kYouth Development$20kOther$3.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

leadershippaducahmahoning

2019

clermontscholarshipsenrichyouthmentoringchildren adultsbusiness

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2019 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

Under $10k8 grants · $59k
$10k–50k22 grants · $374k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+2 grants · $7.6M

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

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
LPGA FDN$15,000
PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000
TENDER MERCIES$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI$13,500
MT CARMEL CEMETERY FUND$13,000

02The need

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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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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 62% 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 36% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Mercy Healthlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$20M · 20 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$20M

$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+35%

Still filing today

90%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

MH
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $18M · revenue +208%
AH
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $911k · revenue +14%
HM
HEALTHY MOMS AND BABES INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $285k · revenue +23%

Funded once

SO
SISTERS OF THE HUMILITY OF MARY
one grant, 2017 · $2.5M
SO
SISTERS OF MERCY SOUTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY
one grant, 2017 · $150k
TC
TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA TOLEDO ROADRUNNERS CLUBgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +70%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.

Community Improvement

OhioHealth Corporation

Our mission is to improve the health of those we serve.

Health

Ohio Chamber of Commerce

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.

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Greater Columbus Chamber of

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.

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Cincinnati Bar Association

To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members & educate the public.

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Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati brings our community together to care for Jews.

Philanthropy

Cincinnati Business Committee

Cbc supports economic improvement and general well-being of greater cincinnati.

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Philanthropy Ohio

To provide leadership for organized philanthropy in ohio.

Philanthropy

Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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Ohio Justice and Policy Center

To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.

Civil Rights

Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

The dayton area chamber of commerce is formed to be the leading advocate for business in the dayton and miami valley regional area and strive to maximize business profitability of its members by providing: professional development,…

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Greater Cincinnati Convention and

To impact the cincinnati economy through convention, trade show, and visitor expenditures.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toledo Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/67

the rest of the field

6,874/74,239

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.

06the grantee network

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/50

Grantees still filing

40/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Religion$18,033,637Other$3,417,833Health$1,527,386Human Services$100,400Philanthropy$96,050Arts & Culture$95,000Recreation & Sports$75,000

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.

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.

Bon Secours Mercy Health IncOH37.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Millstone Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Jewish Federation of Cincinnati · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation · The Spaulding Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ACCESS HEALTH MAHONING VALLEY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 274576650 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ACCESS HEALTH MAHONING VALLEY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 75% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mercy Health?

Find your warmest path to Mercy Health through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Mercy Health

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mercy Health?

More from the funding graph

Mercy Health

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mercy Health?

More from the funding graph