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Mercy Health Foundation

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

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$54k
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 2025.

Health$680kHuman Services$436kEmployment$63kPhilanthropy$35kEducation$22k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$53,536
Median grant
1
States reached
$924k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MHM SUPPORT SERVICES$53,536
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Mercy Health Foundation Ada: $10k → 14%Mercy West Integrated Care: $11k → 16%Mercy Hospital Tishomingo: $12k → 21%MERCY CREST ASSIST LIVING: $10k → 17%MISSION CLINICAL SERVICES: $17k → 17%Mercy Health: $244k → 11%Mercy Health Foundation Joplin: $17k → 15%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 15%United Way of Greater St Louis: $35k → 21%Mercy Hospital Ada: $8k → 14%Mercy Health Foundation Oklahoma City: $11k → 16%Mercy Hospital Tishomingo: $6k → 21%Mercy Crest Assisted Living: $6k → 17%Mission Clinical Services: $8k → 17%MHM Support Services: $229k → 11%Mercy Health Foundation Ada: $6k → 14%OKLA MERCY WEST-MERCY IN SCHOOLS: $10k → 16%Mercy Crest Assisted Living: $6k → 17%Mercy Health: $175k → 11%Mercy Hospital Ada: $6k → 14%WEST INTREGATED CARE: $10k → 16%MHM Support Services: $100k → 11%Mercy Clinic Oklahoma Communities: $9k → 16%Mercy Health: $97k → 11%MHM SUPPORT SERVICES: $54k → 11%MHM SUPPORT SERVICES: $44k → 11%Mercy Family Center: $30k → 11%Mercy Health Foundation St Louis: $25k → 11%MHM Support Services: $19k → 11%MHM Support Services: $8k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 33% of Mercy Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 60%.

Mercy Health Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
-6%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MS
    MHM Support Services
    6× · 2017–2025 · $453k · revenue +132%
  • MH
    Mercy Health
    2× · 2018–2019 · $429k · revenue +139%
  • MC
    MERCY CLINIC OKLAHOMA COMMUNITIESINC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $106k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -17%
  • MF
    MERCY FAMILY CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -14%
  • MH
    MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +43%
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.

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Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities

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

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2
Mercy Health Foundation

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

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3
Mercy Health Oklahoma Communities

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

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4
Mercy Aco Clinical Services

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

Health
5
Mercy Hospital Ozark

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

Health
6
Mercy Hospital Columbus

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

Health
7
Mercy Hospital Watonga Inc

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

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8
Mercy Hospital Aurora

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

Health
9
Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City

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

Health
10
Mercy Health Northwest Arkansas Communities

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

Health
11
Mercy Research

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

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12
Mercy Hospital Carthage

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Ada; the most unlike its peers is Mercy Crest Housing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mercy Health: $429,079 · HealthMercy HealthMERCY CLINIC OKLAHOMA COMMUNITIESINC: $106,334 · HealthMERCY CLINIC OKLAHOMA COMMUNITIESINCMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $25,000 · HealthMISSION CLINICAL SERVICES: $24,750 · Health+1 more: $18,500 · HealthMHM Support Services: $453,356 · OtherMHM Support ServicesMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY: $32,500 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITYMERCY FAMILY CENTER: $30,000 · OtherMERCY CREST HOUSING INC: $22,500 · Other+4 more: $58,700 · Other+4 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $34,788 · Philanthropy
Health$603,663Other$597,056Philanthropy$34,788

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMHM Support Services: $453,356 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Health: $429,079 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY CLINIC OKLAHOMA COMMUNITIESINC: $106,334 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $34,788 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION OKLAHOMA CITY: $32,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY FAMILY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION CLINICAL SERVICES: $24,750 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMERCY CREST HOUSING INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY HOSPITAL TISHOMINGO: $18,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN: $16,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ADA: $16,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY HOSPITAL ADA INC: $13,950 over 2y, 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.

MHM Support ServicesFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
MHM Support ServicesMO21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: MHM Support Services · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mercy Health Foundation 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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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