Vermont · Nonprofit
MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
MERCY CONNECTIONS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,500). 0 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
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Mercy Connections Inc does
Mission
Mercy connections empowers people to make significant life changes through education, mentoring, entrepreneurship, and community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mercy connections operates three well-established, robust program areas, which serve 800 people annually. These include: the inclusive entrepreneurship program (iep) is a trailblazer and leader in preparing entrepreneurs to launch and operate their own businesses. The justice and mentoring program (j&m) matches trained women volunteers (mentors) with women involved in the corrections system (mentees) and provides resources, support and social capital to women trying to reclaim their lives after incarceration. Education programs (e&t) offer a portfolio of in-depth education classes, tutoring, support groups and a weekly community lunch for people seeking a safe, welcoming place to work on their goals, sense of purpose, and possibly most importantly, build connections with others. These programs are supported with evidence-based, adult education and social justice practices that meet people where they are and empower them to move forward. We welcome people who are marginalized and often isolated and adhere to the premise that every person, regardless of life circumstances, deserves dignity, compassion and the opportunity to pursue personal aspirations within a supportive community.
$527,426 spentof which $21,600 as grants$21,920 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $527,426.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 CONNECTIONS INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MERCY CONNECTIONS INC'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. $7k 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 CONNECTIONS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MERCY CONNECTIONS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$1.7M
- Contr&3rd Pty - Mental Health$414k
- Grants$14k
- Contr&3rd Pty-Educ & Training$14k
- Case Services VR$1k
- Contr&3rd Pty-Participant$125
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 CONNECTIONS INC
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY CONNECTIONS INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCY CONNECTIONS INC?
- MERCY CONNECTIONS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,500). 0 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 CONNECTIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,500 in grants to MERCY CONNECTIONS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY CONNECTIONS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY CONNECTIONS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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