· Public charity
Mercy Health Network Inc
We, mercy health network and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $108,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $112,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,250 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| STRATEGIC AMERICA - RAGBRAI | $18,000 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CORNELL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHY FUTURES | $10,000 |
| STARTS RIGHT HERE | $10,000 |
| MERCYONE MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of your 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.
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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against -49% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- IAIOWA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $140k · revenue -36%
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +12%
- IHIOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- IHIOWA HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE DBA COMPASS HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -49%
- RIREYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEEone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -100%
- RHReaching Higher Iowaone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -100%
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.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Iowa first fund was organized for the purpose of educating and informing iowa voters about limited government and expanding economic opportunity.
To provide ongoing philanthropic support to charitable organizations in central iowa.
The iowa hospital association reimagines health care in iowa for life changing outcomes. as the voice and principal advocate for iowa's hospitals, iha provides strategic leadership, resources, and support to ensure its members can…
The mission of Iowa Policy Project is to promote public policy that fosters economic opportunity while safeguarding the health and well-being of Iowa's people and the environment. By providing a foundation of fact-based, objective research…
To provide scholarships for the employees of member facilities of the iowa health care association who are furthering their health care education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nga 2016 Summer Meeting Committee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 IOWA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE DBA COMPASS HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Reaching Higher Iowa ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON ↗
- Who funds IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds STARTS RIGHT HERE ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORNELL SC JOHNSON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS E ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Network Inc 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.