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Mercy Medical Center

To care for the sick and enhance the health of the communities we serve, guided by the spirit of the sisters of mercy.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$90MHuman Services$706kPhilanthropy$127kCrime & Legal$123kHousing & Shelter$90kYouth Development$79kArts & Culture$76kEducation$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $10,797,480 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,690,747 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $893,267 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $247k
  • $250k+2 grants · $11M
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$756M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY SERVICE CORPORATION$10,000,000
MERCY HOSPITAL CEDAR RAPIDS IA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$550,055
MISSION OF HOPE$25,500
HACAP$21,600
ESPECIALLY FOR YOU RACE AGAINST BREAST CANCER$20,000
WAYPOINT$20,000
LINN COUNTY ADVOCATE INC$20,000
IOWA LEGAL AID$20,000
HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE$20,000
LINN COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH$15,000
HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOMENT ASSOC$15,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$15,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$12,500
COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES$12,500
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$10,325
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $547k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $12k → 11%COMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES: $13k → 15%HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $35k → 9%HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $20k → 9%HORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $20k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $15k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $15k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $15k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $5k → 9%CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER: $5k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%WAYPOINT: $20k → 9%WAYPOINT: $6k → 9%WAYPOINT: $5k → 9%WAYPOINT: $5k → 9%WAYPOINT: $5k → 9%WAYPOINT: $5k → 9%WAYPOINT: $5k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $40k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $35k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $25k → 9%MATTHEW 25: $20k → 9%HERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $20k → 9%FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $15k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $13k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $13k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $10k → 9%FOUR OAKS: $10k → 9%HACAP: $22k → 9%HACAP (FOOD RESERVOIR RURAL SENIOR SERVICES): $20k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $16k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $10k → 9%HACAP: $10k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $5k → 9%HAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$91M · 32 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
13

Total granted

$91M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-2%

Still filing today

84%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • MS
    MERCYCARE SERVICE CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $84M · revenue +77% · 96% of their budget
  • MH
    MERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +227%
  • FO
    FOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • MF
    MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -2%
  • F2
    FOUNDATION 2 INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -2%
  • AA
    AREA AMBULANCE AUTHORITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
2
Mercy Medical Center - Centerville

We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…

Health
3
Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
4
Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa

The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.

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5
Pella Regional Health Center

The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.

Health
6
Central Iowa Health System

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health
7
Iowa Health System

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
8
Hospice of North Iowa

We, mercy health services - iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. hospice of north iowa is a member of mercy health services - iowa…

Human Services
9
Iowa Physicians Clinic Medical Foundation

To improve the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
10
Mercy Health Services - Iowa Corp

We, mercy health services-iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health services-iowa is a member of trinity health.

Health
11
Iowa Hospital Association

The iowa hospital association reimagines health care in iowa for life changing outcomes. as the voice and principal advocate for iowa's hospitals, iha provides strategic leadership, resources, and support to ensure its members can…

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12
Covenant Medical Center Inc

We, covenant medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. covenant medical center is a member of trinity health.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of East Central Iowa and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr13%20%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr22%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr13%0%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr22%93%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
10%
114/1,116

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERCYCARE SERVICE CORPORATION — $83,946,000 · OtherMERCYCARE SERVICE CORPORATION+23 more — $569,665 · OtherMERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC — $5,158,852 · Health+10 more — $325,200 · HealthFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $135,025 · Human ServicesCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE — $87,000 · Human ServicesHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $86,100 · Human ServicesWAYPOINT SERVICES — $71,930 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 25 — $45,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $19,500 · Human Services+2 more — $23,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $82,983 · PhilanthropyZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $39,250 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $79,175 · Youth DevelopmentIowa Legal Aid — $32,500 · Crime & LegalMission of Hope — $25,500 · Crime & LegalKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $12,500 · Crime & LegalORCHESTRA IOWA INC — $64,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$84,515,665Health$5,484,052Human Services$578,055Philanthropy$122,233Youth Development$79,175Crime & Legal$70,500Arts & Culture$64,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMERCYCARE SERVICE CORPORATION — $83,946,000 over 9y, 96% of budgetMERCY HOSPITALCEDAR RAPIDSIA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC — $5,158,852 over 9y, 10% of budgetFOUR OAKS FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $135,025 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC — $110,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS A FAMILY SERVICE ALLIANCE — $87,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHAWKEYE AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC — $86,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $82,983 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC — $79,175 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES — $71,930 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetORCHESTRA IOWA INC — $64,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $60,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMATTHEW 25 — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION — $39,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $35,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEWBO CITY MARKET — $35,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTANAGER PLACE — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Legal Aid — $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGEMS OF HOPE INC — $27,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION 2 INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAREA AMBULANCE AUTHORITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCEDAR VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFEED IOWA FIRST — $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHIS HANDS MINISTRIES — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHERITAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $19,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLINN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CRISIS SERVICES AND FOOD BANK — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAINS INTERRUPTED INC — $11,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC — $10,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $6,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt John of the Catholic Worker Community of Cedar Rapids Iowa Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…Greater Cedar Rapids …The Accel FoundationUnited Way of East Ce…GreenState Credit Uni…Carleen and Eugene Gr…United Fire Group Fou…John P & Lawrence J G…The Hall-Perrine Foun…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…David Neuhaus Family …Hawkeye Area Communit…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI59× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Accel Foundation · United Way of East Central Iowa · GreenState Credit Union · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · David Neuhaus Family Foundation · Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc

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 Medical Center 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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