California · Nonprofit
Mary's Mercy Center
Mary's Mercy Center (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,175 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($501,634). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Mary's Mercy Center does
Mission
Mary's Mercy Center reaffirms the dignity of the poor and marginalized by providing food, clothing, and transitional housing to homeless families and individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mary's Table provides nutritious meals to the homeless six days a week, as well as access to showers, hygiene products, clothing, and emergency items. Mary's Table also provides weekly emergency food bags to families, seniors, and the homeless, in addition to formula and diapers for low-income families.
$713,929 spent28% of program spendingMary's Village is a transitional home for men experience homelessness. This includes chronically homeless men, men being released from correctional institutions, and those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction. Mary's Village is a twelve-to-twenty-four-month program that provides housing, educational & vocational training, therapeutic services, job placement, and housing navigation.
$1,263,271 spent$285,684 earned by the program49% of program spendingMary's Haven in March is a transitional home for women with young children experiencing homelessness and/or seeking refuge from domestic violence. It is a twelve-to-twenty-four-month program that provides housing, education & vocational training, and socio-emotional support services for mothers and their children.Casa Merced:-Provides affordable housing for qualified low income families in accordance with the California Department of Housing and Community Development.
$615,221 spent$73,525 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,592,421.
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 $8.1M to $11M (+41%).
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 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2023 18% · 2024 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Mary's Mercy Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Dan Flores
Executive Director
Board chair
Fr Michael Barry SSCC
President/Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $65k → $211k.
12 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Mary's Mercy Center’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
Mary's Mercy Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Mary's Mercy Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 59% · 2019 56% · 2020 86% · 2021 53% · 2022 38% · 2023 25% — 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
25% of Mary's Mercy Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
Mary's Mercy Center draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $515k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
Mary's Mercy Center is better cushioned than half of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Mary's Mercy Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Department of Labor$300k
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 Mary's Mercy Center
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mary's Mercy Center: 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 Mary's Mercy Center?
- Mary's Mercy Center (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,379,175 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($501,634). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mary's Mercy Center have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,379,175 in grants to Mary's Mercy Center, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mary's Mercy Center?
- DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $501,634 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mary's Mercy Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 26 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