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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.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2025
18
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$20M
Net assets
7/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%

Against its field

MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH has grown faster than half of the 3,968 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−180% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,968 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($936k) Expenses 100 ($819k) Net assets 100 ($7.0M)2018 Revenue 196 ($1.8M) Expenses 225 ($1.8M) Net assets 106 ($7.5M)2019 Revenue 177 ($1.7M) Expenses 125 ($1.0M) Net assets 109 ($7.7M)2020 Revenue 2246 ($21M) Expenses 228 ($1.9M) Net assets 367 ($26M)2021 Revenue 591 ($5.5M) Expenses 157 ($1.3M) Net assets 483 ($34M)2022 Revenue 651 ($6.1M) Expenses 368 ($3.0M) Net assets 503 ($35M)2023 Revenue 227 ($2.1M) Expenses 2228 ($18M) Net assets 291 ($21M)2024 Revenue 530 ($5.0M) Expenses 612 ($5.0M) Net assets 312 ($22M)2025 Revenue 250 ($2.3M) Expenses 800 ($6.6M) Net assets 277 ($20M)
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Revenue (250)Expenses (800)Net assets (277)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$117k
17
$6k
18
$640k
19
$19M
20
$4.3M
21
$3.1M
22
$16M
23
$48k
24
$4.2M
25
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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 St Anthony's Medical Center). 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.

70%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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, 51% of it comes from Missouri funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH

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 Missouri

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 10%Fundraising 7%

Governance

14
board members
71%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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 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 18funders 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