New York · Nonprofit
Mercy Haven Inc
Mercy Haven Inc (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,822,076 to it, the largest being THE JACOB MARLEY FOUNDATION INC ($587,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Mercy Haven Inc does
Mission
Mercy Haven's mission is to acknowledge the dignity and potential of people who are homeless, living with mental illness or living in poverty by providing housing, advocacy, education and life skills development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
mercy haven's supported housing program, known as hearth, is the largest component of our housing with 257 residents, including 64 children in 2025. Hearth offers permanent housing with varying levels of support that are based on the needs of the individual or family. staff members known as housing specialists visit our residents a minimum of once per month to provide resources and support with tasks such as budgeting, establishing community support, job readiness evaluation and health management. in 2025, 92% of mercy haven's residents had maintained stable housing for 6 months or more.
$4,810,383 spent$5,153,907 earned by the program47% of program spendingmercy haven operates 3 community residences which are licensed by the NY State Office of Mental Health and provide care 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for a total of 34 adults. a community residence provides the opportunity for individuals who have been diagnosed with a mental illness to develop existing skills and learn new skills for independent living in a supportive, structured, yet home-like setting. during their stay, which averages approximately 4 years and 3 months, residents work with staff to develop personalized care plans containing goals that will help them to live more independently. Skills residents work to develop include, cooking, cleaning, socialization, medication management, budgeting, community integration, job readiness assessments and use of public transportation.
$2,364,023 spent$2,709,803 earned by the program23% of program spendingmercy haven, inc. was awarded 75 section 8 housing assistance vouchers through the U.S. department of housing and urban development mainstream program. this application was submitted in cooperation with the community development corporation of long island as the lead agency. the community development corporation of long island monitors and awards these vouchers to persons who are aged or living with a disability. this gives citizens the ability to rent affordable housing of their choice.
$1,616,990 spent$1,616,995 earned by the program16% of program spendingall other programs conducted within the organization.
$1,399,009 spent$777,645 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,190,405.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $18M to $19M (+6%).
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: 2017 53% · 2018 51% · 2020 53% · 2021 49% · 2022 49% · 2023 50% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of Mercy Haven Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Pat Collins
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $76k → $355k.
7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Haven Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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 Haven Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 50% · 2019 45% · 2020 38% · 2021 41% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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
53% of Mercy Haven Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
74% of Mercy Haven Inc'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. $161k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
Mercy Haven Inc's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 818 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Mercy Haven 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- new strides inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mercy Haven 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Mercy Haven Inc?
- Mercy Haven Inc (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,822,076 to it, the largest being THE JACOB MARLEY FOUNDATION INC ($587,500). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mercy Haven Inc have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,822,076 in grants to Mercy Haven Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mercy Haven Inc?
- THE JACOB MARLEY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $587,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mercy Haven Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 33 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