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Mercy Health System Corporation

The mission of MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM CORPORATION (mhsc) is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this mission is based on a vision of quality: excellence in patient care; service: exceptional patient and customer care; partnering: best place to work; and cost: cost-effective care,…

$9.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $194,225 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,069,018 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,874,793 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 $10k2 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $175k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$988M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MILTON$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER$20,000
WISCONSIN HOCKEY PARTNERS LLC$20,000
ROCK COUNTY CANCER COALITION$20,000
DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC$15,000
YMCA NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY$12,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE$12,500
SIDE EFFECTS INC DBA POWER AD$10,000
BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY$10,000
UNITED WAY OF BLACKHAWK REGION$10,000
AMERICAN HEARTH ASSOCIATION$10,000
FORWARD JANESVILLE INC$9,850
ELKHORN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$9,375
02The need
02

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ELKHORN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $9k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE: $13k → 10%AMERICAN HEARTH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%SIDE EFFECTS INC DBA POWER AD: $10k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER: $20k → 10%YMCA NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY: $13k → 10%HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY: $10k → 10%FORWARD JANESVILLE INC: $10k → 10%SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MILTON: $25k → 10%WISCONSIN HOCKEY PARTNERS LLC: $20k → 10%ROCK COUNTY CANCER COALITION: $20k → 10%UNITED WAY OF BLACKHAWK REGION: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members

2
Janesville Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
3
Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

Fox cities chamber of commerce and industry, inc. is dedicated to developing, advancing, and promoting the economic, industrial, commerical, professional, cultural, and civic welfare of the fox cities area.

4
River District

To Promote Civic Pride

Community Improvement
5
Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health
6
Johnson City - Jonesborough- Washington County Chamber Foundation

The foundation serves the community through support of projects, programs, and events that focus on community development, education, health, the environment, and recreation.

Philanthropy
7
Rock Rapids Development Corporation Inc

To retain and develop industrial, commercial and retail businesses in rock rapids, iowa. to promote our community as a great place to live, work, play and conduct business

Membership Benefit
8
The Unity Hospital of Rochester

See schedule oto make a positive difference in the lives and health status of individuals in the city of rochester, ny and western monroe county. we will educate our community, our providers, and future health care professionals in order…

Health
9
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wi

Mission: we partner with members and the communities we serve to maximize health and well-being. (continued on schedule o)

Health
10
Embolden Wi Inc

Embolden wi amplifies and catalyzes innovative health equity and civic health advocacy programs in wisconsin.

Health
11
Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition Inc

The mission of jay county drug prevention coalition (jcdpc) is to empower youth and adults through education, awareness, advocacy, and relationships to strengthen an improved quality of life for all. our goals and focus are to (1) promote…

Health
12
Regional West Medical Center

We are committed to advancing the health and wellness of the individuals and communities we are honored to serve.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthnet of Rock County Inc 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.

03the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
2/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILTON SCHOOL DISTRICT — $25,000 · OtherMILTON SCHOOL DISTRICTWISCONSIN HOCKEY PARTNERS LLC — $20,000 · OtherWISCONSIN HOCKEY PARTNERS LLCYMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC — $12,500 · OtherYMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INCBLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherBLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCPOWER OF AD CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherPOWER OF AD CORPORATIONForward Janesville Inc — $9,850 · OtherForward Janesville IncELKHORN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & TOURISM CENTER INC — $9,375 · OtherELKHORN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & TOURISM CENTER INCROCK COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC — $20,000 · HealthROCK COUNTY CANCER COAL…American Heart Association Inc — $10,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associat…HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC — $10,000 · HealthHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNT…UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationUW-WHITEWAT…DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$96,725Health$40,000Education$20,000Community Improvement$15,000Youth Development$12,500Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROCK COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetYMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForward Janesville Inc — $9,850 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin IncWI19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Jpc Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Janesville Foundation Inc · Claremont S Jackman Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Baird Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 System Corporation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to Mercy Health System Corporation?

    Find your warmest path to Mercy Health System Corporation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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