Connecticut · Nonprofit
MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED
MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,246 to it, the largest being RASKOB FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Mercy Center Incorporated does
Mission
Mercy center is a retreat and conference center that welcomes individuals and groups of diverse faiths and backgrounds to a peaceful place of natural beauty for personal, spiritual and professional renewal and growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mercy center(mercy by the sea)offered 127 in-person day and weekend programs, serving 2,003 guests. Additionally, five virtual programs have connected 454 participants from across the globe, creating a shared space for reflection and growth. Mercy hosted 46 directed retreats, 4 themed retreats and a 7-week sabbatical program serving a total of 452 individuals, and private overnight retreats offered restful solitude for an additional 218 guests. Mercy provided hosting services to 65 overnight groups, representing 1320 individuals, and 135 day groups with 2,336 guests. These groups include foundations, yoga groups, universities and colleges, hospitals, civic groups, women's leadership, nonprofit service organizations, educators, and faith communities. Additionally, 43 individuals received an award from the mercy for all scholarship fund to attend programs or retreats at mercy and each week mercy by the sea sends an e-newsletter to over 19,842 individuals and groups. And finally, the mary c. Daly rsm art gallery serves as a hub for artistic expression and community engagement. Over the last year, the gallery showcased the works of seven talented artists.
$1,438,918 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,438,918.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $2.0M (+59%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Lydia Forgetta-Sheffield
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $11k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 INCORPORATED’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
MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 79% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 INCORPORATED's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED: 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 MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED?
- MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,246 to it, the largest being RASKOB FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES INC ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $78,246 in grants to MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED?
- RASKOB FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY CENTER INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 7 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