Missouri · Nonprofit
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438,776 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,001,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $20M
What Mercy Health Foundation South 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 South is a not-for-profit corporation created to enhance, through philanthropy, the quality of care and services provided by mercy hospital south in missouri. This objective is accomplished by raising revenue from a variety of sources including donations. The goal of the foundation is to seek, acquire, accept, hold, invest, re-invest, and administer any gifts, bequests, devises, benefits of trust, and property to use and disburse income and principal thereof for the benefit of mercy hospital south.
$5,430,694 spentof which $5,430,694 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,430,694.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.5M to $27M (+216%).
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.
97% of MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $550 → $57k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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: $4.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercy Hospital South). These are real filings, and they are not money MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH raised.
From the IRS filings of MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH’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 SOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 SOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 82% · 2019 98% · 2020 67% · 2021 42% · 2022 45% · 2023 61% — 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
33% of MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
79% of MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH'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 $302k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH: 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 SOUTH?
- MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,438,776 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,001,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,438,776 in grants to MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,001,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH 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.
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 18 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