· Public charity
Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp
We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health services-iowa is a member of trinity health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $1,424,098 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,668,901 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $244,803 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $334k
- $250k+2 grants · $814k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA AND REHABILITATION CENTER | $450,000 |
| DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $364,194 |
| MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - SIOUX CITY FOUNDATION | $239,054 |
| DYERSVILLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $94,971 |
| 43 NORTH IOWA | $40,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS | $30,000 |
| HEALTHY HARVEST OF NORTH IA | $30,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $19,500 |
| GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT | $18,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREATER DUBUQUE | $15,000 |
| DUBUQUE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| HEARTLAND COUNSELING SERVICES INC | $13,000 |
| THE WARMING SHELTER INC | $12,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $11,379 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SIOUX CITY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $662k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k 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
- DMDUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +120% · 42% of their budget
- DHDYERSVILLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $901k · revenue +123% · 56% of their budget
- NINorth Iowa Community Action Organization7× · 2017–2024 · $646k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SMSIOUXLAND MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $1.1M · revenue -94%
- MJMARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $98k · revenue +57%
- MCMASON CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
Improve the quality of the siouxland area
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Southeast iowa regional medical center is dedicated to improving the region's health by providing high-quality care, world-class customer service, and uncompromising value for our patients and their families.
To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…
To improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.
To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.
The mission of northwest iowa hospital corporation, d/b/a st. luke's regional medical center, is to improve the health of the people and the communities we serve.
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
To promote and advance activities beneficial to iowa lutheran hospital.
We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…
Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Medical Center Foundation - North Iowa and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 55. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 8% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 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. 56 of the 79 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 DUBUQUE MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEDICAL CENTER - SIOUX CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAUM HARMON MERCY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND MEDICAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MERCY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DYERSVILLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds North Iowa Community Action Organization ↗
- Who funds YMCA AND REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN LIGHTS ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HARVEST OF NORTH IOWA ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA CORRIDOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Crescent Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds MARY J TREGLIA COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER DUBUQUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA TRANSITION AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SIO SIOUX CITY ↗
- Who funds WellSource ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque ↗
- Who funds THE WARMING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASON CITY YOUTH HOCKEY ASSC INC ↗
- Who funds SIOUXLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds IWLC ↗
- Who funds THE SIOUXLAND INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STROKE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH IOWA AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Siouxland Community Foundation · Missouri River Historical Development Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · United Way of Siouxland Inc · Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation · Waitt Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · United Way of North Central Iowa · Farrer Endowment Foundation · First Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd
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 Services - Iowa Corp 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.