· Private foundation
Mercy Works Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $715k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $592k
- $250k+1 grant · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTOPHER MISSIONS FOUNDATION | $256,563 |
| WELLS OF LIFE | $162,000 |
| RELEVANT RADIO INC | $100,250 |
| JOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER | $95,000 |
| SALVATORIAN MISSION WAREHOUSE | $70,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION FOR THE GREEN BAY DIOCESE | $65,000 |
| VIDA CLINIC INC | $50,000 |
| APOSTOLATE FOR FAMILY CONSECRATION INC | $50,000 |
| HELP THE HELPLESS | $40,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR PRIESTLY FORMATION | $40,000 |
| FRANCISCAN WORKS | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF CHAMPION | $30,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $30,000 |
| SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE | $30,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF THE WORD | $28,400 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
99 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JPJOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $501k · revenue +121%
- SGST GIANNA MOLLA CLINIC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $437k · revenue ×20 · 27% of their budget
- HIHEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $390k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- AGAd Gentes Missionary Congregationone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue -53%
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +127%
- GSGRACE SYSTEM ST JPII CLASSICAL SCHOOLCHERSTERTON ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $60k
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.
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Action for life promotes, upholds, and supports efforts to protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death through education, advocacy, and prayer as well as by supporting traditional family values.
Our mission is to provide content that empowers people to grow spiritually, improve relationships, engage in dialogue and foster collaboration within the Church and throughout society.
Amnion's mission is to share the gospel of jesus christ and to protect and advocate for the sanctity of all human life, born and unborn, through the provision of abortion alternative services that empower mothers to choose life.
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
Liberty Women's Clinic ministers with the love of Christ by empowering people to make informed, life-affirming decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 130 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 WELLS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN PAUL II HEALING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST GIANNA MOLLA CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF MALTA WORLDWIDE RELIEF MALTESER INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds HELP THE HELPLESS ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE ALEXANDER HOUSE APOSTOLATE ↗
- Who funds MARY MOTHER OF GOD MISSION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CATHOLIC CULTURE ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Courage International Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Spitzer-Magis Center FKA Magis Institute ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC YOUTH EXPEDITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Witherspoon Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
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: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · The Moran Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Our Sunday Visitor Inc · Sumnicht Family Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Martin Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Koch Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mercy Works Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mercy Works Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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