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MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,827 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($50,259). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$108k
Net assets
$1.6M
1/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Mercy Christian Academy does

Mission

Our mission is to bear witness to the mercies of christ by providing a high-quality, christian education to shreveport families, regardless of income.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing high-quality education to enrich students with a christian purpose, helping students financially if needed, and encouraging them to pursue their dreams and aspirations while preparing them for success in every aspect of life. From 2023-2024 Mercy Christian Academy taught a free phonics program once a week after school. Over 15 kids came each week, ages kindergarten-2nd grade. This program was designed to teach students how to read.

    $318,581 spentof which $1,700 as grants$124,751 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $318,581.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($92k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2023 Revenue 222 ($204k) Expenses 270 ($145k) Net assets 256 ($98k)2024 Revenue 328 ($301k) Expenses 454 ($243k) Net assets 407 ($156k)2025 Revenue 1998 ($1.8M) Expenses 765 ($410k) Net assets 4133 ($1.6M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (1998)Expenses (765)Net assets (4133)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 2024 to 2025, from $160k to $1.6M (+895%).

$40k
$101k
$160k
$1.6M
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’22
$60k
’23
$58k
’24
$1.4M
’25
11
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.

2022202320242025
Listed4565
Joined·+1+2+0
No longer listed·011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

5 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’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 CHRISTIAN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.

47%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

100% of MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin78% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)171% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 20%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $107,827 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($50,259). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $107,827 in grants to MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA is the largest funder on record, with $50,259 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MERCY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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