New York · Nonprofit
MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES
MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $776,159 to it, the largest being The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation ($280,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $776k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Mercy Center Ministries does
Mission
The mission of Mercy Center Ministries inc. Is to provide homeless women who are single, pregnant, and/or parenting with shelter, supportive services and community resources which will enable them to become independent, empowered, and productive members of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of Mercy Center Ministries inc. Is to provide homeless women who are single, pregnant, and/or parenting with shelter, supportive services and community resources which will enable them to become independent, empowered, and productive members of society.
$1,416,202 spent$1,963 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,416,202.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $2.0M (+38%).
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: 2020 18% · 2021 16% · 2022 18% · 2023 6% · 2024 90% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $67k → $85k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MINISTRIES’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 MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 49% · 2019 45% · 2020 59% · 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 41% — 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
67% of MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES'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
58% of MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $239 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES: 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 MINISTRIES?
- MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $776,159 to it, the largest being The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation ($280,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $776,159 in grants to MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES?
- The Bozena And Josef Zelenda Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY CENTER MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 9 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