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Mercy Health Springfield Communities

As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Education$1.1MHealth$857kCommunity Improvement$696kRecreation & Sports$243kYouth Development$179kHuman Services$158kArts & Culture$86kPhilanthropy$68kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $1,005,920, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,324,034 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $318,114 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $202k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $236k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$234M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DRURY UNIVERSITY$500,000
SPRINGFIELD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$64,819
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$64,000
SPRINGFIELD BUILDING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (SBDC)$56,925
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS$50,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$40,000
CARE TO LEARN$30,000
BRANSON LAKES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMMERCE$25,706
BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS$20,000
SPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INC$15,000
MISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME$14,870
SPRINGFIELD DAILY CITIZEN INC$13,900
COMM PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS$12,000
SPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$10,120
FOUND FOR SPFLD PUBLIC SCHOOLS$10,030
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $8k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $8k → 18%LOST AND FOUND: $11k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $35k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $30k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $25k → 15%LOST AND FOUND: $9k → 15%FAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER INC: $7k → 15%LOST AND FOUND: $6k → 15%FAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER INC: $6k → 15%JACOB'S LADDER CARE SERVICES INC: $9k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 67% of Mercy Health Springfield Communities’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 32%.

Mercy Health Springfield Communitieslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 25 repeat orgs$869k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

$2.6M
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+4%

Still filing today

96%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $537k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • MS
    MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +97%
  • SA
    Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $267k · revenue +25%
  • FF
    Foundation for Springfield Public Schools
    4× · 2018–2025 · $254k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • BS
    BUFFALO SPORTS PROPERTIES LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • SP
    SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $58k
  • GC
    GREENE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -25%
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
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
2
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
4
The Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce

Enhance our members' success and advance our economy

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5
Missouri Center for Patient Safety

Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.

Health
6
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.

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7
Missouri Partnership

In its role as the principal business recruitment and marketing organization for missouri, the missouri partnership attracts new jobs and business investments to the state through collaborative efforts with other state and local economic…

Community Improvement
8
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

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9
Missouri Chamber of Commerce & Industry

To protect, serve and advance missouri business.

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10
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
11
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
12
Ozark Greenways Inc

Serve the springfield area by building a trail system that connects and enhances our community. additional functions include education on active transportation and urban tree canopy enhancement and serving as a land trust for…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ozarks Pickleball Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 48 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
23/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SPRINGFIELD: $432,158 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SPRINGFIELDSpringfield Business Development Corporation: $285,175 · OtherSpringfield Business Development CorporationSpringfield Area Chamber of Commerce Inc: $267,051 · OtherSpringfield Area Chamber of Commerce IncBUFFALO SPORTS PROPERTIES LLC: $125,000 · OtherBUFFALO SPORTS PROPERTIES LLCSPRINGFIELD CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $76,120 · OtherBRANSONLAKES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $71,170 · OtherSPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $58,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS: $143,600 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS+14 more: $174,200 · Other+14 moreDrury University: $500,000 · EducationDrury UniversityMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $272,000 · EducationMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY…Foundation for Springfield Public Schools: $254,030 · HealthFoundation fo…American Heart Association Inc: $117,500 · HealthAmerican Hear…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES: $17,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,500 · Health+2 more: $18,500 · HealthBREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS: $107,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $29,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC: $17,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $97,700 · Community ImprovementL-Life Food Pantry: $30,050 · Community ImprovementGREATER SPRINGFIELD AREA SPORTS COMMISSION: $23,438 · Community ImprovementURBAN DISTRICT ALLIANCE INC DBA DOWNTOWN COUNCIL OF CHAMPIONS: $8,000 · Community ImprovementMISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $78,220 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureSpringfield Daily Citizen Inc: $13,900 · Arts & CultureCare to Learn: $90,000 · Human ServicesLOST & FOUND: $26,100 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $12,000 · Human ServicesJACOB'S LADDER CARE SERVICES INC: $8,550 · Human ServicesGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $7,900 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$1,632,474Education$772,000Health$422,530Philanthropy$203,500Community Improvement$159,188Arts & Culture$154,620Human Services$152,050

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDrury University: $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SPRINGFIELD: $432,158 over 3y, 15% of budgetSpringfield Business Development Corporation: $285,175 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $272,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSpringfield Area Chamber of Commerce Inc: $267,051 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $254,030 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS: $143,600 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $117,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS: $107,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $97,700 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCare to Learn: $90,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $78,220 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBRANSONLAKES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $71,170 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetL-Life Food Pantry: $30,050 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOST & FOUND: $26,100 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER SPRINGFIELD AREA SPORTS COMMISSION: $23,438 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetGREENE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLEADERSHIP SPRINGFIELD INC: $18,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES: $17,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield Daily Citizen Inc: $13,900 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOULA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetK-LIFE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KITCHEN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJACOB'S LADDER CARE SERVICES INC: $8,550 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN DISTRICT ALLIANCE INC DBA DOWNTOWN COUNCIL OF CHAMPIONS: $8,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $7,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOZARKS PICKLEBALL CLUB: $7,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetARC OF THE OZARKS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VICTIM CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Foundation …Arvest FoundationThe Charlie & Mary Be…Stanley & Elaine Ball…Commerce Bancshares F…Musgrave FoundationOzarks Health Advocac…Robert M - Bobby - Al…Cook Family FoundationForvis Mazars Foundat…Bee Payne-Stewart Fou…Larry P O'Reilly and …
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO48.5× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Arvest Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Cook Family Foundation · Forvis Mazars Foundation · Bee Payne-Stewart Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family 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 Springfield Communities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Health Springfield Communities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mercy Health Springfield Communities?

    Find your warmest path to Mercy Health Springfield Communities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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