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Mercy Hospital and Medical Center

We, mercy health system of chicago and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mhmc is a member of mercy health system of chicago and trinity health.

$1.3M
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$1.2M
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 2020.

Health$2.3MHuman Services$80kHousing & Shelter$79kRecreation & Sports$75kFood & Nutrition$45kYouth Development$40k
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $1,166,436, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,278,581 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $112,145 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.
$1,166,436
Median grant
1
States reached
$537k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$1,166,436
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 (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $49k → 16%CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $90k → 14%ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 7%CENTERS FOR NEW HORIZONS INC: $36k → 14%THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $30k → 16%ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 7%CENTERS FOR NEW HORIZONS INC: $30k → 14%CENTERS FOR NEW HORIZONS INC: $14k → 14%CHICAGO KICS COMMUNITY ACADEMY: $55k → 14%CHICAGO KICS COMMUNITY ACADEMY: $10k → 14%TRUSTYCUP PRODUCTIONS: $40k → 14%CHICAGO KICS COMMUNITY ACADEMY: $10k → 14%METROPOLITAN CHICAGO BREAST CANCER TASK FORCE: $8k → 14%GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $45k → 14%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 4 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$2.5M
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+137%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • IH
    ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.2M · revenue -4%
  • CF
    CENTERS FOR NEW HORIZONS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $80k · revenue -37%
  • TC
    THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $79k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CF
    CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $90k · revenue +206%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +78%
  • TP
    TRUSTYCUP PRODUCTIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
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
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
2
Center for Housing and Health

Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
3
Mchc Chicago Hospital Council

The mission of mchc chicago hospital council is to foster, promote, support, develop and encourage charitable, educational, scholastic and scientific purposes; promote cooperative effort and action between hospitals and other health care…

Health
4
Community Health Partnership of Illinois

Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.

Health
5
The Chicago Innovation Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Illinois Community Health Foundation Inc
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7
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services
8
Chicago Community Bond Fund

Ccbf pays bond for people charged with crimes in cook county, illinois. through a revolving fund, ccbf supports individuals whose communities cannot afford to pay the bonds themselves and who have been impacted by structural violence.

Crime & Legal
9
Institute for Community Health Inc

To improve community health through participatory evaluation, applied research, assessment, and data services. please see schedule o for remainder of disclosure.

Health
10
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
11
Cook County Health Foundation

Through fundraising, education and advocacy, cook county health foundation supports high-quality, respectful and responsive health care for all through our public health system, cook county health. the foundation invests in services,…

Health
12
Illinois Health and Hospital Association

To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centers for New Horizons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Trustycup Productions. 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

8 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,235,669 · HealthILLINOIS HOSPITAL RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $90,000 · Health+1 more: $7,750 · HealthCENTERS FOR NEW HORIZONS INC: $80,300 · OtherChicago KICS Community Academy: $75,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $78,500 · Housing & ShelterGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $45,000 · Food & NutritionTRUSTYCUP PRODUCTIONS: $40,000 · Youth Development
Health$2,333,419Other$155,300Housing & Shelter$78,500Food & Nutrition$45,000Youth Development$40,000

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 budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $90,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC: $78,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChicago KICS Community Academy: $75,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Hope: $7,750 over 1y, 0.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The Chicago Community…
The Chicago Community TrustIL12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Hospital and Medical Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Hospital and Medical Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 8 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 2020, released 2020. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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