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Mercy Health Network Inc at a glance

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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.

$112k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$30k
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 2021.

Health$269kPublic Benefit$58kReligion$30kEducation$25kRecreation & Sports$20kYouth Development$10k
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $108,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $112,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,250 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$443M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION$30,000
IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION$20,000
STRATEGIC AMERICA - RAGBRAI$18,000
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
MERCYONE MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON$10,000
STARTS RIGHT HERE$10,000
CORNELL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHY FUTURES$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION: $30k → 5%MERCYONE MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON: $10k → 9%MERCY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%IOWA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION: $70k → 10%100 GREAT IOWA NURSES CO UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING: $8k → 15%REACHING HIGHER IOWA: $15k → 5%IOWA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION: $70k → 10%100 GREAT IOWA NURSES CO UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING: $8k → 15%IOWA HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 10%NGA 2016 SUMMER MEETING COMMITTEE: $15k → 10%IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%IOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE: $10k → 10%STARTS RIGHT HERE: $10k → 10%IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%STRATEGIC AMERICA - RAGBRAI: $18k → 10%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$189k · 4 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -49% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$189k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
-49%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthEducationReligionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • IA
    IOWA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $140k · revenue -36%
  • SU
    STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +12%
  • IH
    IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • IH
    IOWA HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE DBA COMPASS HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -49%
  • RI
    REYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -100%
  • RH
    Reaching Higher Iowa
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -100%
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
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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2
Iowa First Fund

Iowa first fund was organized for the purpose of educating and informing iowa voters about limited government and expanding economic opportunity.

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3
Iowa Pharmacy Association Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Iowa West Foundation
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5
Iowa Insurance and Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
6
Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation
Science & Tech
7
The Iowa Clinic Healthcare Foundation

To provide ongoing philanthropic support to charitable organizations in central iowa.

Health
8
Iowa Hospital Association

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…

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9
Mid-Iowa Health Foundation
Religion
10
Iowa Policy Project

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…

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11
Iowa Health Care Association Foundation

To provide scholarships for the employees of member facilities of the iowa health care association who are furthering their health care education

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12
Iowa Rugby Collective Foundation
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iowa Hospital Education and Research Foundation; 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.
04the 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 16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION: $140,000 · HealthIOWA ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS FOUNDATIONIOWA HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE DBA COMPASS HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 · HealthIOWA HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIVE DBA COMPASS HEALTHCARE COLLABORATIV…IOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $16,800 · HealthIOWA HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONMERCY MEDICAL CENTER - NEWTON: $10,000 · HealthIOWA HEALTHIEST STATE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · HealthMERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthDES MOINES REGISTER: $18,000 · OtherDES MOINES RE…NGA 2016 SUMMER MEETING COMMITTEE: $15,000 · OtherNGA 2016 SUMM…State University of Iowa: $15,000 · OtherState Univers…STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationSTATE UNIVE…Reaching Higher Iowa: $15,000 · EducationReaching Hi…CORNELL SC JOHNSON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS E: $10,000 · EducationCORNELL SC …IOWA CATHOLIC RADIO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · ReligionREYNOLDS-GREGG INAUGURAL COMMITTEE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSTARTS RIGHT HERE: $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$236,800Other$48,000Education$42,500Religion$30,000Community Improvement$25,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Youth Development$10,000

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 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
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.

Community Fdn of Grea…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get 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.

    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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