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Mercy Health Foundation Inc

The mission of the mercy health foundation is to live out the healing ministry of christ with a special emphasis on those in need, by generating, stewarding and distributing funds to enhance the quality of the services and programs offered through our health care system.

$46k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Health$2.3MHousing & Shelter$29kPhilanthropy$29kEducation$25kHuman Services$12k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $42,667, the rows itemized in this filing. The $45,666 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,999 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
$6,407
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC$33,451
ASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC$6,407
COLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC$2,809
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ASCENSION HEALTH AT HOME LLC: $12k → 11%ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $239k → 6%MINISTRY HOME CARE: $12k → 11%MERCY MEDICAL CENTER OF OSHKOSH INC: $125k → 11%ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC (FKA ST ELIZABETH HOSPITAL INC): $101k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WI-OSHKOSH FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%St Elizabeth Hospital Inc: $40k → 6%MERCY MEDICAL CENTER OF OSHKOSH INC: $105k → 11%ASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-FOX VALLEY WISCONSIN INC (FKA NETWORK HEALTH SYSTEM: $31k → 6%WHITE BAY HOLDINGS LLC: $29k → 11%UNITED WAY FOX CITITIES: $29k → 6%UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $25k → 6%NETWORK HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $8k → 6%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 6 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$2.3M
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+39%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AN
    ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +95%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $54k · revenue +5%
  • AM
    ASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $21k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • WB
    WHITE BAY HOLDINGS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $29k
  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +39%
  • AC
    ASCENSION CALUMET HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -4%
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
Ascension Wisconsin Pharmacy Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
2
Ministry Health Care Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

—
3
Ascension Se Wisconsin Hospital Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
4
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Southeast Wisconsin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
5
Ascension St Francis Hospital Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
6
Ascension All Saints Hospital Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
7
Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
8
Columbia St Mary's Hospital Ozaukee Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

—
9
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Foundation for St Francis and Franklin Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

—
10
Ascension Medical Group Promed

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
11
Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Philanthropy
12
St Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Medical Group-Fox Valley Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Foundation Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $1,465,171 · HealthASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INCCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC: $66,705 · HealthASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-FOX VALLEY WISCONSIN INC: $62,066 · Health+2 more: $26,648 · HealthMercy Medical Center of Oshkosh Inc: $672,436 · OtherMercy Medical Center of Oshkosh In…WHITE BAY HOLDINGS LLC: $29,254 · Other+3 more: $42,099 · Other+3 moreUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $53,500 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education
Health$1,620,590Other$743,789Philanthropy$53,500Education$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASCENSION NE WISCONSIN INC: $1,465,171 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Medical Center of Oshkosh Inc: $672,436 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S INC: $66,705 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-FOX VALLEY WISCONSIN INC: $62,066 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $53,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASCENSION MEDICAL GROUP-SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $20,648 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION CALUMET HOSPITAL INC: $17,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

Ascension St Elizabet…Oshkosh Area Communit…
Ascension St Elizabeth Foundation IncMO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ascension St Elizabeth Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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