· Public charity
Mercy Hospital Fort Smith
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH | $1,339,727 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Mercy Hospital Fort Smith’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AR; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH5× · 2021–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +7% · 29% of their budget
- UWUNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +37%
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC2× · 2017–2018 · $79k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- AHARKANSAS HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TRUST INCone grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -67%
- CCHAPAHEARTone grant, 2018 · $33k
- CCCrawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +149%
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.
Recruitment of jobs and capital investment in fort smith, ar
Maintain a professional society of physicians.
The fort wayne medical society is committed to the goals of the american medical association, the purpose of which is the preservation of the art and science of medicine, personal development of member physicians and protection and…
The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.
From conception to birth and beyond, we uphold the sanctity of human life; sharing the gospel of jesus christ, offering knowledge, medical services and support.
Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.
To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education
To make donations to other charitable 501(c)(3) organizations, to encourage and develop educational and scientific activity in the field of medical science in allen county and to promote the betterment of public health through research.
To provide a hospital facility and to make upgrades to the hospital facility so that it may provide primary and emergency care to the citizens of the community.
Emergency medical services
To advance the field of health for the public good.
To provide medical care to the uninsured.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Fort Smith and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH ↗
- Who funds PARK PARTNERS OF FORT SMITH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT SMITH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Inc ↗
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: Mercy Health Fort Smith Communities · Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Degen Foundation · Maurras Family Charitable Trust · 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 Hospital Fort Smith 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.
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