Missouri · Nonprofit
MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER
MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,076 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($94,181). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $143k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Mercy Conference and Retreat Center does
Mission
Impelled by the gospel, the Mercy Conference and Retreat Center provides a tranquil environment of hospitality and healing in the mercy tradition, where groups and individuals of all faiths can engage in prayer, reflection and dialogue for personal, communal and global transformation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hosted conferences/retreats day and overnight events held at the center which are sponsored by independent groups (community, faith-based, and nonprofit). The center provides housing, meals/food services, meeting rooms and conference planning services.
$1,021,419 spent$1,243,043 earned by the program75% of program spendingMcrc sponsored programs day and overnight events sponsored by the center, including: retreats, days of reflection, workshops, musical experiences, and spiritually based yoga classes. The center provides housing, meals/food services, meeting rooms, and secures presenters. All programs are promoted through mailing, on the web, via e-blasts, and other social media.
$194,694 spent$48,777 earned by the program14% of program spendingSpiritual direction/private retreats the center offers programs for individuals who stay for one or more days of private reflection or individually directed retreats (which includes provision of housing and meals). Spiritual direction is provided (whether by the center's staff or through rent paid by adjunct spiritual directors) as well as healing touch and therapeutic massage/bodywork (through rent paid by adjunct rsms and others).
$148,826 spent$76,257 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,364,939.
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.
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 $2.6M to $4.0M (+58%).
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: 2022 12% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Chief executive
Dawn Stringfield
Executive director
Board chair
Matthew Walsh
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $29k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER’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 CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 64% · 2021 99% · 2022 58% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
70% of MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER'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 $43k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Sisters of Mercy South Central Community (See Schedule O) · exempt
- Mercy Investment Services Inc · exempt
- Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER?
- MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,076 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($94,181). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $143,076 in grants to MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $94,181 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 6 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