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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. Mercy health network is a member of trinity health.

$112k
Granted FY2021
7
Itemized grants FY2021
7
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$108k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$443M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Mercy Health Network Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthReligionCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20217$108k100%
FY20201$8k0%
FY20194$53k75%
FY20182$78k0%
FY20176$166kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$269kPublic Benefit$58kReligion$30kEducation$25kRecreation & Sports$20kYouth Development$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Iowa Academy of Family Physicians Foundation$140,0002n/a
Iowa Healthcare Collaborative Dba Compass Healthcare Collaborative$50,00010%
Iowa Catholic Radio Foundation$30,00016%
Reynolds-Gregg Inaugural Committee$25,00013%
Iowa State Fair Foundation$20,00011%
Des Moines Register$18,0001n/a
State University of Iowa Foundation$17,50020%
Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation$16,80025%
Reaching Higher Iowa$15,000114%
Nga 2016 Summer Meeting Committee$15,0001n/a
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All grantees of Mercy Health Network Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Iowa Academy of Family Physicians Foundation$140,0002n/a
Iowa Healthcare Collaborative Dba Compass Healthcare Collaborative$50,00010%
Iowa Catholic Radio Foundation$30,00016%
Reynolds-Gregg Inaugural Committee$25,00013%
Iowa State Fair Foundation$20,00011%
Des Moines Register$18,0001n/a
State University of Iowa Foundation$17,50020%
Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation$16,80025%
Reaching Higher Iowa$15,000114%
Nga 2016 Summer Meeting Committee$15,0001n/a
State University of Iowa$15,0002n/a
Mercy Medical Center - Newton$10,00010%
Iowa Healthiest State Initiative$10,00012%
Starts Right Here$10,00012%
Mercy Hospitalcedar Rapidsia Endowment Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Cornell Sc Johnson College of Business E$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mercy Health Network Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIowa Healthcare Collaborative Dba Compass Healthcare Collaborative: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIowa Catholic Radio Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetReynolds-Gregg Inaugural Committee: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetIowa State Fair Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetState University of Iowa Foundation: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation: $16,800 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetReaching Higher Iowa: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMercy Medical Center - Newton: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Healthiest State Initiative: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetStarts Right Here: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMercy Hospitalcedar Rapidsia Endowment Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community FdnIA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Mercy Health Network Inc

How much does Mercy Health Network Inc give?
Mercy Health Network Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $108,000, out of $112,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Mercy Health Network Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (65%), Public Benefit (14%), Religion (7%).
Who are Mercy Health Network Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Iowa Academy of Family Physicians Foundation ($140k), Iowa Healthcare Collaborative Dba Compass Healthcare Collaborative ($50k), Iowa Catholic Radio Foundation ($30k).
Does Mercy Health Network Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mercy Health Network Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Mercy Health Network Inc based?
Mercy Health Network Inc is based in IA.

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 16 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 2021, released 2021. 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 $5k 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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