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Mercy Lab

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$185k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$3.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mercy Lab funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCrime & LegalHealth
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$185k0%
FY20243$190k0%
FY20234$128k0%
FY20224$141k50%
FY20211$1k0%
FY20203$36k0%
FY20192$41k50%
FY20183$369k67%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$435kEducation$431kCivil Rights$280kAnimals$33kHealth$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trinity International University$324,19211%
Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking$280,00041%
After-School All-Stars$255,00060%
Youth Guidance$135,00040%
Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children$81,50060%
A Place Called Home$45,00020%
Eden Academy Inc$25,0001n/a
Cancer Commons$20,00020%
River City Community Animal Hospital Inc$17,6001n/a
Miami Veterinary Foundation Inc$15,00015%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mercy Lab supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrinity International University: $324,192 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCoalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking: $280,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAfter-School All-Stars: $255,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Guidance: $135,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: $81,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetA Place Called Home: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCancer Commons: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMiami Veterinary Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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How do I get to Mercy Lab?

Find your warmest path to Mercy Lab 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.

About Mercy Lab

How much does Mercy Lab give?
Mercy Lab reported 3 grants totaling $185,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mercy Lab fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (36%), Education (36%), Civil Rights (23%).
Who are Mercy Lab's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trinity International University ($324k), Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking ($280k), After-School All-Stars ($255k).
Does Mercy Lab fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mercy Lab accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mercy Lab?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Mercy Lab based?
Mercy Lab is based in CA.

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 10 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-PF 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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