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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.3M
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.

Health$3.9MRecreation & Sports$206kPhilanthropy$120kCommunity Improvement$60kHuman Services$33kArts & Culture$31kFood & Nutrition$20kEducation$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,339,727
Median grant
1
States reached
$445M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH$1,339,727
02The need
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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 (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Park Partners of Fort Smith: $86k → 17%AHEART: $65k → 17%Sisters of Mercy of Americas: $7k → 8%Cancer Support Foundation: $20k → 17%CHAPAHEART: $33k → 17%Cancer Support Foundation: $20k → 17%United Way: $60k → 17%Good Samaritan Clinic: $50k → 17%Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce: $35k → 17%Good Samaritan Clinic: $29k → 17%Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce: $25k → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Mercy Hospital Fort Smith’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AR; by stated purpose, 78%.

Mercy Hospital Fort Smithlessmore 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 8 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$4.3M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+128%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • MH
    MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +7% · 29% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $120k · revenue +251%
  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $79k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • AH
    ARKANSAS HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TRUST INC
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -67%
  • C
    CHAPAHEART
    one grant, 2018 · $33k
  • CC
    Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +128%
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.

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Fort Smith Chamber Educational Development Foundation Inc

Recruitment of jobs and capital investment in fort smith, ar

Community Improvement
2
Smith County Medical Society

Maintain a professional society of physicians.

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3
Fort Wayne Medical Society Inc

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…

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4
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

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.

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5
Fort Smith Christian Family Servicesinc

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.

Human Services
6
Fort Collins Symphony Association

Providing entertainment and education through the production of high-quality orchestral music.

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7
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

Health
8
Fort Wayne Medical Society Foundation Inc

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.

Health
9
Fort Morgan Community Hospital Asso

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.

Health
10
Fort Smith Emergency Medical Services

Emergency medical services

Health
11
Michigan State Medical Society Foundation

To advance the field of health for the public good.

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12
Christian Community Care Clinic

To provide medical care to the uninsured.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Fort Smith; 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.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: $3,718,388 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH+6 more: $217,904 · Other+6 morePARK PARTNERS OF FORT SMITH INC: $206,041 · Community ImprovementCrawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC: $120,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $79,167 · HealthFORT SMITH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $31,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,936,292Community Improvement$226,041Philanthropy$120,000Health$79,167Arts & Culture$31,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: $3,718,388 over 5y, 29% of budgetPARK PARTNERS OF FORT SMITH INC: $206,041 over 2y, 19% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC: $120,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC: $79,167 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetARKANSAS HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TRUST INC: $64,657 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFORT SMITH REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $60,247 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFORT SMITH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $31,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCrawford-Sebastian Community Development Council Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Mercy Health Fort Smi…Arvest FoundationArkansas Community Fo…The Degen FoundationMaurras Family Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mercy Health Fort Smith CommunitiesAR24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mercy Health Fort Smith Communities · Arvest Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Degen Foundation · Maurras Family Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Hospital Fort Smith funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Hospital Fort Smith. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

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    How do I get to Mercy Hospital Fort Smith?

    Find your warmest path to Mercy Hospital Fort Smith 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 12 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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