Ohio · Nonprofit
Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc
Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,070 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($553,832). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11.5B
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $689k
- Net assets
- $7.4B
What Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc does
Mission
Bon secours mercy health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its subsidiaries. The mission of bon secours mercy health in performing these activities shall be to provide a means by which the sponsors manifest the healing ministry of jesus. Through governance, management, development of leadership and use of resources, bon secours mercy health intends to give substance and direction to a dynamic catholic health ministry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The thirty-two hospitals and various physician practices included on this return extend the healing ministry of jesus by improving the health and well-being of our communities and bringing good help to those in need, especially people who are poor, dying and underserved. This is accomplished by demonstrating behaviors reflecting our core values of human dignity, integrity, compassion, stewardship, and service. Inspired by god's hope for the world, we seek to be a ministry where associates want to work, clinicians want to practice, people seek wellness and communities thrive. The ministry is actively extending health care access, enhancing outcomes and driving value through emerging technologies, investments and partnerships across four areas of focus: core clinical operations, diversified growth, digital innovation, and service and stewardship. Through our core clinical operations, the ministry provides compassionate, value-based care and services to its patients, consumers and communities through its hospitals, physician practices and clinical care sites. Bsmh provides service and stewardship by advocating and working to enhance quality of life and health for all people and to…
$6,051,805,048 spentof which $46,530,699 as grants$7,671,797,716 earned by the program60% of program spendingBon secours mercy health is a mission-driven, nonprofit, catholic health system. Bon secours mercy health operates acute care hospitals, physician practices, low-income housing, home health agencies, hospice programs, urgent care and occupational health centers, ambulatory services, and other healthcare organizations. Bon secours mercy health's home office provides services and support to the entire system, including but not limited to: providing governance, management oversight, strategic leadership, focusing resources to assure the healing mission, providing access to lower cost debt financing to support operations, improving clinical outcomes and reducing operating costs. Bsmh diversifies its growth model by leveraging economies of scale to enhance health care access, efficiencies and quality through investments, partnerships, and a growing portfolio of business to business subsidiaries. Bsmh's digital innovation area of focus drives change for health care consumers, providers and systems by bringing digital innovation to the market at scale, through a portfolio bolstered by leading-edge technology and big data.
$4,084,900,620 spent$3,136,010,299 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,136,705,668.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.8B to $12.5B (+610%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
John Starcher Jr Jd
President & CEO, Bon Secours Mercy Health
Board chair
Peter F Maddox
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $58k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $122M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation); $1k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
83% of Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $114k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $575k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record — $1.6M federal, $213k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
- FL$108k
- NJ$105k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 265 related entities
- Bon Secours Associated Services LLC · disregarded
- Bon Secours Associated Services II LLC · disregarded
- Bon Secours Good Helpcare LLC · disregarded
- Bon Secours Grosse Pointe III LLC · disregarded
- BSMH Services LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc?
- Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $689,070 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($553,832). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $689,070 in grants to Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc?
- JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $553,832 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing