· Public charity
Mercy Housing California
The mission of MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA is to directly facilitate the provision of affordable housing to families, seniors, people with special needs, homeless and potentially homeless individuals who would otherwise lack the financial resources to obtain quality, safe housing.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $710k
- $250k+6 grants · $6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA 89 LP | $4,031,720 |
| MERCY HOUSING INC | $1,130,131 |
| KELSEY CIVIC CENTER LP | $500,000 |
| LAGUNA SENIOR HOUSING LP | $448,134 |
| THIRD AND LECONTE ASSOCIATES LP | $324,806 |
| 55 LAGUNA LP | $304,994 |
| SAN FRANCISCO HOUSING AUTHORITY | $150,000 |
| 833 BYRANT LP | $141,443 |
| CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $139,681 |
| SUNNYDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER | $79,900 |
| MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA 51 LP | $74,797 |
| MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA 59 LP | $74,093 |
| HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM INC | $50,000 |
| MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA XXXV LP | $40,001 |
| MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA XIV LP | $24,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Mercy Housing California’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 72% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 63%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMERCY HOUSING INC5× · 2020–2024 · $26M · revenue +55%
- MHMERCY HOUSING CALWEST2× · 2017–2020 · $15M · revenue +49% · 62% of their budget
- MPMERCY PROPERTIES I INC2× · 2018–2019 · $3.1M · revenue +211% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- 1M1064 MISSION LPone grant, 2023 · $6.6M
- TPTAHANANTIPPING POINT EQUITYone grant, 2022 · $5.4M
- CGCALWEST GP MISSION BAY BLOCK 6one grant, 2022 · $3.4M
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.
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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How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING CALWEST ↗
- Who funds MERCY PROPERTIES I INC ↗
- Who funds KELSEY ↗
- Who funds SUNNYDALE AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SFHA HOUSING CORPORATION MAMADOU GNING ↗
- Who funds MERCY PROPERTIES CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING WEST ↗
- Who funds MOLINE MINISTRIES 2 INC ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH MINISTRIES I INC ↗
- Who funds THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY OAKS VILLAGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mercy Housing Inc · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mercy Housing California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Housing California. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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