How much does Mercy Medical Center give?

Mercy Medical Center reported 17 itemized grants totaling $10,797,480, out of $11,690,747 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Mercy Medical Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (99%), Human Services (1%), Philanthropy (0%).

Who are Mercy Medical Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercycare Service Corporation ($84M), Mercy Hospitalcedar Rapidsia Endowment Foundation Inc ($5.2M), Linn County Auditor ($143k).

Does Mercy Medical Center fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mercy Medical Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, The Accel Foundation.

Where is Mercy Medical Center based?

Mercy Medical Center is based in IA.

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Iowa · Public charity

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 FY2025(still arriving): 17
Itemized grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $11M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 24; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $756M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Mercy Medical Center 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; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$11M	35%
FY2024	15	$14M	20%
FY2023	18	$15M	22%
FY2022	19	$8.2M	11%
FY2021	21	$11M	43%
FY2020	13	$8.5M	15%
FY2019	17	$5.7M	6%
FY2018	24	$12M	25%

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mercycare Service Corporation	$83,946,000	9	96%
Mercy Hospitalcedar Rapidsia Endowment Foundation Inc	$5,158,852	9	10%
Linn County Auditor	$143,265	9	n/a
Four Oaks Family and Children's Services	$135,025	7	0%
Catherine McAuley Center Inc	$110,000	7	1%
Mercy Medical Center	$100,000	5	0%
Horizons a Family Service Alliance	$87,000	6	0%
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc	$86,100	7	0%
United Way of East Central Iowa	$82,983	7	0%
Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc	$79,175	6	1%

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All grantees of Mercy Medical Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mercycare Service Corporation	$83,946,000	9	96%
Mercy Hospitalcedar Rapidsia Endowment Foundation Inc	$5,158,852	9	10%
Linn County Auditor	$143,265	9	n/a
Four Oaks Family and Children's Services	$135,025	7	0%
Catherine McAuley Center Inc	$110,000	7	1%
Mercy Medical Center	$100,000	5	0%
Horizons a Family Service Alliance	$87,000	6	0%
Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc	$86,100	7	0%
United Way of East Central Iowa	$82,983	7	0%
Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa Inc	$79,175	6	1%
Waypoint Services	$71,930	8	0%
Orchestra Iowa Inc	$64,500	7	1%
American Heart Association Inc	$60,500	3	0%
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Dubuque	$60,000	4	0%
Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Matthew 25	$45,000	2	1%
Zach Johnson Foundation	$39,250	6	0%
Breakthrough T1d	$35,500	4	0%
Newbo City Market	$35,000	3	2%
Tanager Place	$35,000	3	0%
Iowa Legal Aid	$32,500	2	0%
Gems of Hope Inc	$27,500	4	5%
Mission of Hope	$25,500	1	n/a
Mound Farm Holdings Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$22,500	3	0%
Area Ambulance Authority	$20,000	1	0%
His Hands Ministries	$20,000	2	1%
Feed Iowa First	$20,000	1	4%
The Arc of East Central Iowa	$20,000	1	0%
Linn County Advocate Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Foundation 2 Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Cedar Valley Habitat for Humanity	$20,000	1	1%
Heritage Area Agency on Aging	$19,500	1	0%
Olivet Presbyterian Church	$18,500	2	n/a
State University of Iowa	$15,200	3	n/a
Hope Community Development Assoc	$15,000	1	n/a
Linn County Medical Society	$15,000	3	7%
Kids First Law Center	$12,500	1	1%
Community Crisis Services and Food Bank	$12,500	1	0%
The Salvation Army	$12,500	1	n/a
African American Museum of Iowa	$11,500	2	n/a
Chains Interrupted Inc	$11,000	2	6%
Community Health Free Clinic	$11,000	2	0%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc	$10,700	2	0%
Wellington Heights Community Church Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
March of Dimes Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Nfc Cedar Rapids LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
State University of Iowa Foundation	$6,200	1	0%
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas West Midwest Community Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Super 20	$5,000	1	n/a
St John of the Catholic Worker Community of Cedar Rapids Iowa Inc	$5,000	1	2%

Mercy Medical Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 39.

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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.

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

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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About Mercy Medical Center

How much does Mercy Medical Center give?: Mercy Medical Center reported 17 itemized grants totaling $10,797,480, out of $11,690,747 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mercy Medical Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (99%), Human Services (1%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are Mercy Medical Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercycare Service Corporation ($84M), Mercy Hospitalcedar Rapidsia Endowment Foundation Inc ($5.2M), Linn County Auditor ($143k).
Does Mercy Medical Center fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mercy Medical Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, The Accel Foundation.
Where is Mercy Medical Center based?: Mercy Medical Center is based in IA.