California · Nonprofit
MERCED RESCUE MISSION
MERCED RESCUE MISSION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,332,104 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($1,484,046). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What Merced Rescue Mission does
Mission
Our mission is to exhibit the love and caring of jesus christ; transforming lives for those in our county who are in physical and spiritual need.our vision is to be the hands, fee and voice of christ in merced county; advocating for the dispossessed, battered, hungry and destitute.our purpose is to continue the work of jesus christ through evangelizing, discipling, and serving the spiritual and physical needs of the disadvanted. We provide emergency subsistence and rehabilitation programs for men, women and families, including skills training for the inter-city poor. We also strive to inform and involve the public in caring for the pverty-stricken, with the ultimate goal being the restoration of the whole person.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
OTHER PROGRAMSMerced Rescue Mission operates a New Life Transformation Program called "Hope for Men," "Hope for Women, and Transformation to Hope". These are 9-12 month faith-based programs. These programs receive men and women who have been incarcerated experiencing homelessness, struggling with addiction issues or simply feel hopeless. These programs address addiction issues, and build life skills that help people become self-sustaining through finding jobs. Family reunifications also an important part of this program.
$728,485 spent100% of program spendingHOPE RESPITE CARE PROGRAMThe Hope Respite Care Program Individuals experiencing homelessness who are discharged from the hospital into the Hope Respite Care program, receive whole-person care coordination while they recover. This innovative collaboration includes relationships with Mercy Medical Center Merced, Sutter Memorial Hospital Los Banos, Central California Alliance for Health, Golden Valley Health Centers, Merced College and Stanislaus State University Nursing Department, Our Hope Respite Care locations are friendly, welcoming and offer participants access to the full suite of comprehensive health care services as well as case managers, transportation services, mail pick up, housing navigation and access to supportive services. We have entered into a relationship with Central California Alliance for Health to provide Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports for our clients on Medi-Cal. Enhanced Care Management (ECM) helps guide clients with their medical care. Community Supports help with housing, getting food after a hospital discharge, ECM can also help them find community services that are related to their care.hospital discharge support and more.
$3,386 spent0% of program spendingNAVIGATION CENTERMission Merced operates the Navigation Center which is Emergency Homeless Services for people living on the streets (daily meals, showers, clothing, shelter, etc.). This program is a service-rich environment Behavioral Health Department provides a staff person and the Human Service Agency provides a staff person. The Navigation Center is also staffed with a full-time Housing Navigator and Case Manager. This is a co-ed and pet environment. The goal of this program is to help people find permanent housing.
OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: SENIOR MEALSMission Merced is contracted with Merced County Area Agency on Aging to provide a hot lunch meal delivered to seven locations throughout Merced County through a program called "Living Well Cafe." The purpose is not only to provide a complete balanced dietary meal but also for the socialization of the seniors in the community. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: OTHER PROGRAMSMerced Rescue Mission operates a New Life Transformation Program called "Hope for Men," "Hope for Women, and Transformation to Hope". These are 9-12 month faith-based programs. These programs receive men and women who have been incarcerated experiencing homelessness, struggling with addiction issues or simply feel hopeless. These programs address addiction issues, and build life skills that help people become self-sustaining through finding jobs. Family reunifications also an important part of this program.
$-1,289 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $730,582.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $6.5M (+269%).
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 20% · 2018 24% · 2019 37% · 2020 44% · 2021 2% · 2022 38% · 2023 26% · 2024 28% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of MERCED RESCUE MISSION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Mark Mayo
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $148k → $77k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 MERCED RESCUE MISSION’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
MERCED RESCUE MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MERCED RESCUE MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 58% · 2019 71% · 2020 77% · 2021 51% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of MERCED RESCUE MISSION'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
MERCED RESCUE MISSION draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k 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
MERCED RESCUE MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCED RESCUE MISSION
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
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCED RESCUE MISSION: 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 MERCED RESCUE MISSION?
- MERCED RESCUE MISSION (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,332,104 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($1,484,046). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCED RESCUE MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,332,104 in grants to MERCED RESCUE MISSION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCED RESCUE MISSION?
- DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $1,484,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCED RESCUE MISSION 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 12 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