Arkansas · Nonprofit
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH (Arkansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,168 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($321,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $773k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Mercy Health Foundation Fort Smith does
Mission
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mercy Health Foundation Fort Smith helped live mercy's mission to provide care to everyone who needed it by supporting charity care and community outreach services. Donations supported the provision of charity care at mercy facilities, capital needs, and programs identified to benefit patients cared for at mercy hospitals and outreach locations.
$3,538,368 spentof which $3,538,368 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,538,368.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $21M (+76%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Warden Ken
Board member & chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $33k → $144k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercy Hospital Fort Smith). These are real filings, and they are not money MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH raised.
From the IRS filings of MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH’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 HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 51% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 67% · 2022 71% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“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
71% of MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k 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.
Organizations like MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 80 related entities
- Casa de Misericordia · exempt
- McAuley Portfolio Management Company · exempt
- Mercy Aco Clinical Services Inc · exempt
- Mercy Clinic East Communities · exempt
- Mercy Clinic Fort Smith Communities · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH: 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 HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH?
- MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH (Arkansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $773,168 to it, the largest being ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($321,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $773,168 in grants to MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH?
- ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $321,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION FORT SMITH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 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