· Public charity
Mercy Housing Lakefront
The mission of MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $570k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 5042 WINTHROP APARTMENTS LP | $430,775 |
| NEAR NORTH LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | $403,733 |
| 901 WEST 63RD LP (ENGLEWOOD APARTMENTS) | $315,686 |
| 111TH AND WENTWORTH LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | $204,461 |
| SOUTH LOOP APARTMENTS | $202,147 |
| WICKER PARK RENAISSANCE | $92,904 |
| ROSELAND LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | $70,707 |
| JOHNSTON CENTER RE-USE LLC | $35,244 |
| MALDEN LIMITED PARTNERSHIP II | $15,757 |
| NEW STERLING PARK LLC | $13,600 |
| DANVILLE VETERANS HOUSING LLC | $7,943 |
| MHL 1 MAJOR JENKINS LP | $7,651 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 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 FY2024, 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 HOUSING MANAGEMENT GROUP6× · 2017–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +17%
- MHMERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT6× · 2017–2022 · $354k · revenue +79%
- RSRenaissance Social Services Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $274k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- NCNHT COMMUNITIESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +127%
- EAENGLEWOOD APARTMENTS NFPone grant, 2023 · $153k
- AHASSISI HOMES OF GURNEE INCone grant, 2018 · $66k · revenue +11%
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.
The purpose of mercy properties i, inc is to manage or direct entities which are organized for the purpose of creating stable, vibrant and healthy communities by developing, financing and operating affordable, program-enriched housing for…
St. theresa village, inc. (an ohio not-for-profit corporation) was organized to construct, own and operate a 50-unit apartment community in cincinnati, ohio, known as st. theresa village, pursuant to section 202 of the national housing…
Indianapolis ministries 2, inc. (the "corporation") is a wholly owned subsidiary of mercy housing wheaton nfp. the corporation is a not-for-profit corporation formed on september 25, 2015, in accordance with the not-for-profit statutes of…
St. mary's villa inc, a tennessee not-for-profit corporation, was organized to construct, own and operate a 47-unit apartment community in knoxville, tennessee.
Indianapolis ministries i, inc. (im1i), is a not-for-profit corporation formed on september 25, 2015, in accordance with the not-for-profit statutes of the state of indiana. the corporation was formed for the purpose of operating a 74-unit…
Own and operate a 55-unit apartment project in moscow, idaho, known as hawthorne village apartments, which provides housing to disadvantaged persons
The mission of mercy housing, inc. is to manage or direct entities which are organized for the purpose of creating stable, vibrant and health communities by developing, financing, and operating affordable, program-enriched housing for…
Moline ministries 1, inc. was organized on september 25, 2015, as an illinois non-stock, nonprofit organization for the purpose of acquiring and operating a rental housing project under section 221(d)(4) pursuant to section 223(a)(7) of…
The mission of mercy housing northwest-idaho 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…
The corporation was formed for the purpose of operating a 383-unit community located in denver, colorado which provides housing and related services for elderly, low- and moderate-income persons.
Charles crest corporation, an ohio not-for-profit corporation, was organized to construct, own and operate a 48-unit apartment community in rossford, ohio, known as charles crest, pursuant to section 202 of the national housing act, as…
The mission of mercy community capital is to provide below-market loans in order to support affordable housing developments when conventional financing is not possible or affordable. developers and nonprofit organizations seeking loans…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assisi Homes of Gurnee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 35 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 HOUSING MANAGEMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds NHT COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Social Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSISI HOMES OF GURNEE INC ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISI HOMES-BATAVIA APARTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISI HOMES OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FOX RIVER VALLEY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Housing Lakefront 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.