Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Mercy Dental Missions Inc
Mercy Dental Missions Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,362 to it, the largest being Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc ($635,452). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Mercy Dental Missions Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,110 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,110 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Evjue Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Michigan Dental Association Foundationportfolio match
- Oral Health International Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2021 12% · 2022 22% · 2023 37% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of Mercy Dental Missions Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $56k → $157k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Dental Missions 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Mercy Dental Missions Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 Dental Missions Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 83% · 2020 71% · 2021 66% · 2022 57% · 2023 53% — 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 Dental Missions Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
82% of Mercy Dental Missions Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Evjue Foundation Incshared funderslocalWI · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 148 organizations near you
- Michigan Dental Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oral Health International Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mallinger Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Dental of Wisconsin Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aspirus Health Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America's Toothfairy National Children's Oral Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee Charitable Care Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Dental Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois State Dental Society Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Foundation Incshared fundersWI · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Mercy Dental Missions Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wisconsin
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
99%
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 Dental Missions 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Mercy Dental Missions Inc?
- Mercy Dental Missions Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,362 to it, the largest being Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc ($635,452). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mercy Dental Missions Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $958,362 in grants to Mercy Dental Missions Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mercy Dental Missions Inc?
- Delta Dental of Wisconsin Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $635,452 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mercy Dental Missions Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing