New Jersey · Nonprofit
MERCY CENTER CORPORATION
MERCY CENTER CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,850,573 to it, the largest being THE JULES L PLANGERE JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($676,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Mercy Center Corporation does
Mission
Mercy center, founded by the sisters of mercy, provides programs and services that empower, enrich, and educate people facing socio-economic challenges to realize their full potential, with a special emphasis on women and children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mercy center provides emergency services (funding for housing, utilities, food, stamp services, and free tax prep svcs) to underprivileged persons. Mercy center's food pantry distributes food to families in need. For the year ended june 30, 2025, the pantry served over 105,000 individuals including 3,167 thanksgiving baskets and 5,620 christmas toys donated to children. The family resource center provides information, therapeutic and advocacy services to stabilize families. The center helps to promote emotional, mental and physical well-being. For the year ended june 30, 2025 the center provided 32,660 services to 940 individuals.
$6,223,352 spentof which $350,345 as grants85% of program spendingSisters academy of new jersey, an independent middle school for girls, is a program of mercy center. The academy is committed to providing it's students with a well-rounded education so they have access to and success in competitive high schools, colleges, and universities. By offering the students of sisters academy this education of excellence, combined with full family focus, the cycle of poverty will be broken and its immediate effects will be eradicated.
$1,064,705 spent15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,288,057.
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 $6.1M to $11M (+77%).
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 26% · 2018 42% · 2019 36% · 2020 30% · 2021 38% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% · 2024 24% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of MERCY CENTER CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose $93k → $493k.
14 of 85 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 MERCY CENTER CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
MERCY CENTER CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 47% · 2019 49% · 2020 19% · 2021 32% · 2022 19% · 2023 14% — 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
50% of MERCY CENTER CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
60% of MERCY CENTER CORPORATION's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $824k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
MERCY CENTER CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MERCY CENTER CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.0M on record — $30k federal, $18.0M state.
- Department of the Treasury$30k
- FEDERAL$9.4M
- GRANT IN AID$8.2M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$448k
- TRUST FUND$36k
- STATE AID$3k
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 MERCY CENTER CORPORATION
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sisters of Mercy of the Americas · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION?
- MERCY CENTER CORPORATION (New Jersey) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,850,573 to it, the largest being THE JULES L PLANGERE JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($676,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY CENTER CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $3,850,573 in grants to MERCY CENTER CORPORATION, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY CENTER CORPORATION?
- THE JULES L PLANGERE JR FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $676,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY CENTER CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 85 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