Maine · Nonprofit
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital (Maine) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,014,600 to it, the largest being MERCY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($3,761,982). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
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.
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared funderslocal
- Edward E & Hilda C Rosen Foundationportfolio match
- The Opportunity Allianceportfolio match
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.
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $57k → $1.2M.
6 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $22M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northern Light Health Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital raised.
From the IRS filings of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 95% · 2019 26% · 2020 14% · 2021 31% · 2022 36% · 2023 45% — 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
50% of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
80% of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
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 37 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared funderslocalME · backs 135 organizations that share your funders · funds 155 organizations near you
- Edward E & Hilda C Rosen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Opportunity Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterville Area Women's Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anne R Henry Charitable Foundationshared fundersME · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
- Lawrence Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tua Eugene B Hamiltonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation Incshared fundersME · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Heart of Maine United Wayshared funderslocalME · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 30 organizations near you
- Libra Foundationshared funderslocalME · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Elmina B Sewall Foundationshared fundersME · backs 120 organizations that share your funders
- Maine Health Access Foundation Incshared fundersME · backs 83 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record — $2.0M federal, $37k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Labor$1.0M
- (RR) BENEFIT PROGRAMS$37k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$245
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 28 related entities
- Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems EMHS · exempt
- Acadia Hospital Corp AHC · exempt
- Acadia Healthcare Inc · exempt
- Eastern Maine Medical Center · exempt
- Eastern Maine Medical Center Auxiliary · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital?
- Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital (Maine) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,014,600 to it, the largest being MERCY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($3,761,982). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $9,014,600 in grants to Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital?
- MERCY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,761,982 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37funders 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