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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.

$328M
Revenue FY2024
37
Funders on record
$9.0M
Grants received
$69M
Net assets
21/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

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.

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 ($515M) Expenses 100 ($519M) Net assets 100 ($34M)2018 Revenue 106 ($547M) Expenses 105 ($545M) Net assets 110 ($38M)2019 Revenue 46 ($236M) Expenses 43 ($222M) Net assets 153 ($52M)2020 Revenue 43 ($220M) Expenses 43 ($223M) Net assets 134 ($46M)2021 Revenue 49 ($253M) Expenses 47 ($243M) Net assets 165 ($56M)2022 Revenue 50 ($259M) Expenses 52 ($269M) Net assets 131 ($45M)2023 Revenue 56 ($289M) Expenses 54 ($280M) Net assets 159 ($54M)2024 Revenue 64 ($328M) Expenses 61 ($316M) Net assets 201 ($69M)
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Revenue (64)Expenses (61)Net assets (201)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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.8M
17
$1.6M
18
$14M
19
$2.8M
20
$11M
21
$10M
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$9.0M
23
$12M
24
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

42%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

ME
NH
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
TN
FL

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

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Maine out of state home

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.

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 37 funders put you typical 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.

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.

Federal$2.0M
grants $2.0Mcontracts $0
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23
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
  • Department of Labor$1.0M
State$37k
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Top programs
  • (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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

22
board members
82%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ME

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.

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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