California · Nonprofit
Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego
Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,845 to it, the largest being DAVID C COPLEY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $498k
- Net assets
- $-144833
What Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego does
Mission
The foundation raises philanthropic support which allows scripps to provide superior health services and to make a positive, measurable difference in the health of individuals in the communities served.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The foundation raises philanthropic support which allows scripps to provide superior health services and to make a positive, measurable difference in the health of individuals in the communities served.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $39k to $34k (−13%).
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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
James Frager
Director/CEO
Board chair
Tom Gammiere
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $258k → $24k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Hospital Foundation San Diego’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 Hospital Foundation San Diego leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 54% · 2019 95% · 2020 54% · 2021 79% · 2022 84% · 2023 58% — 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
17% of Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
88% of Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego: 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 Hospital Foundation San Diego?
- Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $497,845 to it, the largest being DAVID C COPLEY FOUNDATION ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $497,845 in grants to Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego?
- DAVID C COPLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mercy Hospital Foundation San Diego find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 8 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