Iowa · Nonprofit
HOUSE OF MERCY
HOUSE OF MERCY (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,179 to it, the largest being CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION ($51,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $-1818504
What House of Mercy does
Mission
We, House of Mercy and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. House of Mercy is a member of trinity health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
House of Mercy is one of central iowa's most comprehensive providers of vital behavioral health services. House of Mercy uses evidenced-based practices to provide high-quality, personalized care for each client. Since opening in 1988, House of Mercy has dedicated itself to making the community a healthier place by providing quality substance use disorder treatment and mental health programs to individuals and families in need of these services. Together with our clients, we help them create a healthy lifestyle and sense of personal self-worth and well-being.please visit our website for additional information about our services:www.mercyone.org/desmoines/house-of-mercy
$5,793,958 spentof which $1,000 as grants$599,049 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,793,958.
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 2024 to 2025, from $7.0M to $16M (+131%).
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: 2017 21% · 2018 17% · 2019 23% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 29% · 2023 50% · 2024 47% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of HOUSE OF MERCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Erik Sorensen
Director; chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $19k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $26M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Catholic Health Initiatives - Iowa Corp). These are real filings, and they are not money HOUSE OF MERCY raised.
From the IRS filings of HOUSE OF MERCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
HOUSE OF MERCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 HOUSE OF MERCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 67% · 2022 44% · 2023 34% — 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.
How long its funders stay
80% of HOUSE OF MERCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of HOUSE OF MERCY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
HOUSE OF MERCY's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HOUSE OF MERCY
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 310 related entities
- Advantage Healthsaint Mary's Medical Group · exempt
- Allegany Franciscan Ministries Inc · exempt
- Asylum Hill Family Medicine Center Inc · exempt
- Baum Harmon Mercy Hospital · exempt
- Baum Harmon Mercy Hospital and Clinics Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOUSE OF MERCY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY?
- HOUSE OF MERCY (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,179 to it, the largest being CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION ($51,050). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSE OF MERCY have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $133,179 in grants to HOUSE OF MERCY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSE OF MERCY?
- CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $51,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSE OF MERCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing