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MERCURY ONE INC

MERCURY ONE INC (Texas) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,623,185 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($2,227,119). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$20M
Funders on record
179
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$37M
72/179 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Mercury One Inc does

Mission

Mercury one is a humanitarian aid and education organization focused on restoring the human spirit. Our initiatives include providing programs to individuals to advance the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for communities to help themselves. We also assist our nation's veterans, provide aid to those in crisis, and rebuild and restore the lives of christians and other persecuted religious minorities all around the world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Disaster relief: pursuant to the organization's mission, mercury one partnered with churches, faith-based organizations, and community based groups in providing disaster relief to domestic and global communities. The underlying goal of all activities was to empower local organizations in those communities so that they are stronger and more prepared in not only dealing with the aftermath of the immediate disaster, but better prepared for the next one.

    $9,328,398 spent
    44% of program spending
  2. The nazarene fund: the organization rescued christian refugees and other religious minorities that were in danger, persecuted for their religious beliefs, and had been driven from their homes. The refugees were relocated to slovakia, australia, and other countries, and provided housing, food and language training.

    $7,815,559 spentof which $112,831 as grants
    37% of program spending
  3. Education: the organization has initiatives to teach future generations the honest history of the godly principals our country was founded upon. This includes teaching and training about the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of us history and story telling through first source documents, artifacts, special exhibits, and technology.

    $1,207,868 spentof which $239,000 as grants$150,312 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  4. Various other humanitarian services, including u.s. Veteran and active military relief, domestic violence prevention, care, and counter human trafficking and other humanitarian services.

    $2,764,466 spentof which $5,666,289 as grants
    13% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,116,291.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.4M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($4.5M)2018 Revenue 88 ($7.4M) Expenses 64 ($8.3M) Net assets 79 ($3.6M)2019 Revenue 87 ($7.3M) Expenses 70 ($9.1M) Net assets 39 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 102 ($8.6M) Expenses 64 ($8.4M) Net assets 43 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 691 ($58M) Expenses 424 ($55M) Net assets 104 ($4.7M)2022 Revenue 183 ($15M) Expenses 97 ($13M) Net assets 164 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 420 ($35M) Expenses 115 ($15M) Net assets 615 ($28M)2024 Revenue 352 ($30M) Expenses 150 ($20M) Net assets 835 ($37M)2025 Revenue 243 ($20M) Expenses 179 ($23M) Net assets 830 ($37M)
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Revenue (243)Expenses (179)Net assets (830)Peer revenue range

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 $5.3M to $27M (+409%).

$6.1M
$5.1M
$3.2M
$5.3M
$27M
$11M
$30M
$40M
$39M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2022
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2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of MERCURY ONE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 391 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4.7M
’17
−$919k
’18
−$1.8M
’19
$189k
’20
$2.7M
’21
$2.7M
’22
$20M
’23
$10.0M
’24
−$2.9M
’25
17
months of
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

David Barton

President and chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+1+2+0+1·+3
No longer listed·00000·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $130k → $668k.

39 of 179 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 MERCURY ONE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 179 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

MERCURY ONE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

84% 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 MERCURY ONE INC.

19%
largest funder
41%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 42% · 2019 19% · 2020 31% · 2021 58% · 2022 25% · 2023 13% — 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

38% of MERCURY ONE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

77% of MERCURY ONE 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 $2.7M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 39 states.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MERCURY ONE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like MERCURY ONE 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 29 states

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Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • American Journey Experience LLC · disregarded
  • The Nazarene Fund Global LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds MERCURY ONE INC?
MERCURY ONE INC (Texas) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,623,185 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($2,227,119). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MERCURY ONE INC have?
IRS filings report 179 organizations giving $11,623,185 in grants to MERCURY ONE INC, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MERCURY ONE INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,227,119 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MERCURY ONE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 179 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