· Private foundation
The Mercy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEPS OF FAITH | $30,000 |
| SAC | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +97% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 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
- SOSTEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +391%
- SASEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER4× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +97%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- HHHELPING HANDSone grant, 2023 · $37k
- LMLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES OF ANTIOCH TN INCone grant, 2017 · $23k
- SJST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCHone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
Providing safe affordable alcohol-free and drug-free housing to clients in rehabilitation in the memphis tn regional community.
Calvary rescue mission is a haven for the homeless in memphis. for all time, it has been to reach out and minister to the needs of each person regardless of race, color, or creed. we furnish a clean shower, clothing, bed, along with the…
Street hope tn is a faith-based non-profit with a mission to eliminate sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and provide a safe environment to foster healing and hope through jesus christ. this mission is fulfilled through…
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
Rescue Hill helps survivors of human trafficking with recovery services and resources in a safe environment. Rescue Hill offers a stabilization home for survivors and their small children as well as advocacy services.
Hope street provides housing and healing to men, women, and children whose lives have been profoundly affected by the toxic environment they grew up in, their own choices, or drug and alcohol abuse. empowered by the active grace of christ,…
Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.
Provide Group and Foster care for Homeless Children and Counseling
To share the hope and love of Jesus with women in the adult entertainment industry
We exist to serve women who have been trafficked. through our confidential services, we offer a safe space for healing to begin while we compassionately reflect jesus to all we encounter.
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Summit County Rescue Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 STEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FILTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY RESCUE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Elko FISH ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Able Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Nashville Predators Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Mercy Foundation 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.