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Mercy Health East Communities

As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

$229k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$400kRecreation & Sports$387kHealth$368kCommunity Improvement$134kPhilanthropy$85kHousing & Shelter$61kHuman Services$58kYouth Development$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $25,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $229,063 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $203,563 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$384M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STS JOACHIM & ANN CARE SERVICE$10,000
THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI$8,500
ST CHARLES CITY COUNTY (LIBRARY FOUNDATION)$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARE TO LEARN: $21k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%UNLIMITED PLAY: $10k → 5%YOUTH IN NEED: $6k → 5%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%SEMPER FI SOCIETY OF ST LOUIS: $5k → 11%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%COTTLEVILLE FIREFIGHTERS COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 27 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
19

Total granted

$1.4M
$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+30%

Still filing today

81%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LE
    LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM
    2× · 2021–2022 · $250k · revenue +79%
  • GT
    GATEWAY TO HOPE
    2× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +274%
  • IB
    Isaac Bruce Foundation
    3× · 2018–2020 · $105k · revenue +137% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS SCOTT GALLAGHER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $58k
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSASgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +110%
  • MH
    MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +84%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
2
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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3
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
4
St Louis Council of Construction Consumers

The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…

Community Improvement
5
St Louis Community Foundation Inc

To improve the quality of life in the greater st louis metropolitan area by connecting individuals, families, and businesses to their philanthropic goals.

Philanthropy
6
St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

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7
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
8
Techstl

The TechSTL Council serves as the St Louis champion for technology by strategically and equitably investing in regional collaboration to advance tech workforce development and retention, along with spurring innovation opportunities in…

Community Improvement
9
Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement
10
St Charles County Parks Foundation Inc

Providing financial and volunteer support for parks in st charles county missouri.

Recreation & Sports
11
Area Resources for Community & Human Services

To improve the lives of greater st. louis' residents by convening strategic community partnerships.

Human Services
12
The Small Business Synergy Corporation

Development of small businesses to stimulate economic growth and create jobs and wealth in st. charles county missouri

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; the most unlike its peers is Cottleville Firefighters Community Outreach. 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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 46 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST CHARLES COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $80,000 · OtherST CHARLES COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVE…STS JOACHIM AND ANN CARE SERVICE: $70,500 · OtherSTS JOACHIM AND ANN CARE SERVIC…ST LOUIS SCOTT GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $57,500 · OtherST LOUIS SCOTT GALLAGHER FOUNDA…ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLST LOUIS SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $23,630 · OtherNorth County Inc: $22,735 · OtherCommunity Council of St Charles County: $20,395 · OtherJACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE FOUNDATION AKA HEPTATHLON: $20,000 · Other+16 more: $138,000 · Other+16 moreLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $250,000 · EducationLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SY…ST CHARLES CITY COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $92,000 · EducationST CHARLES CITY COUNTY …GATEWAY TO HOPE: $200,000 · HealthGATEWAY TO HOPEST LOUIS INTEGRATED HEALTH NETWORK: $62,500 · HealthST LOUIS INTEGRATED HE…MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $25,000 · HealthMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATIO…THE SPARROWS NEST: $17,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,875 · Health+1 more: $5,800 · HealthGO ST LOUIS: $178,000 · Recreation & SportsGO ST LOUISIsaac Bruce Foundation: $105,000 · Recreation & SportsIsaac Bruce FoundationFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUND…+2 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $30,000 · Human ServicesCare to Learn: $26,000 · Human ServicesCottleville Firefighters Community Outreach: $25,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH IN NEED: $20,800 · Human ServicesUNLIMITED PLAY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSemper Fi Society of St Louis: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC: $45,000 · Crime & LegalMayors Charity Ball Inc: $22,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$457,760Education$342,000Health$325,175Recreation & Sports$323,000Human Services$116,800Crime & Legal$45,000Philanthropy$27,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGO ST LOUIS: $178,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetIsaac Bruce Foundation: $105,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetST CHARLES CITY COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetST CHARLES COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $80,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSTS JOACHIM AND ANN CARE SERVICE: $70,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS INTEGRATED HEALTH NETWORK: $62,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCare to Learn: $26,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCottleville Firefighters Community Outreach: $25,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetST LOUIS SPORTS COMMISSION INC: $23,630 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNorth County Inc: $22,735 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMayors Charity Ball Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED: $20,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Council of St Charles County: $20,395 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SPARROWS NEST: $17,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Cottleville St Patricks Day Run and Parade Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth County Regional Development Association: $10,500 over 1y, 34% of budgetUNLIMITED PLAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST CHARLES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetJUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST CHARLES COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetANDERSON HOSPITAL: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATCH-22 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSemper Fi Society of St Louis: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

World Wide Technology…St Louis Community Fo…MHM Support ServicesCommerce Bancshares F…Bjc Health System Dba…United Way of Greater…Moneta Group Charitab…Edward Jones Foundati…Employees Community F…Centene FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…Washington University
World Wide Technology FoundationMO35.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · MHM Support Services · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Centene Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Washington University

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mercy Health East Communities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Health East Communities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mercy Health East Communities?

    Find your warmest path to Mercy Health East Communities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $247k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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