California · Nonprofit
MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS
MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS (California) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,494,940 to it, the largest being Housing for Health Orange County Inc ($1,383,295). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $8.5M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Mercy House Living Centers does
Mission
Mercy house's most significant exempt activities focus on ending homelessness and providing comprehensive housing and support services. The organization offers homeless prevention, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and low-income residential programs to help individuals and families achieve and maintain stable housing. Through cal aim community supports, mercy house provides services such as housing navigation, tenancy support, deposits, and enhanced care management for medi-cal members. Additionally, the organization operates emergency shelters across multiple counties, offering temporary housing, basic needs, and access to medical and supportive services for individuals experiencing homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing: mercy house advanced its mission to end homelessness by serving thousands of individuals across four targeted housing programs thr.ough homeless prevention services, mercy house stabilized individuals at risk of losing their housing keeping families and individuals housed before a crisis could occur. Its rapid rehousing program successfully transitioned homeless individuals into stable housing, providing the bridge support needed to regain independence. Mercy house's permanent supportive housing program delivered long-term, integrated housing and services to chronically homeless individuals living with disabilities among the most vulnerable and hardest to serve in the community. Additional low-income individuals received residential support services, ensuring continued housing stability for those with the fewest options.
$17,023,297 spent$2,535,119 earned by the program27% of program spendingEmergency shelters: mercy house extended a critical safety net to thousands of individuals across six counties in california and arizona, operating emergency shelter facilities throughout orange, riverside, los angeles, kern and ventura counties in california and maricopa county, arizona. Shelter participants received comprehensive wraparound services including temporary housing, meals, laundry and hygiene facilities, housing navigation, and access to medical and supportive care addressing not just the immediate need for a safe place to sleep, but the full range of barriers that keep individuals trapped in homelessness, with many participants successfully transitioning into permanent housing programs.
$39,742,519 spent62% of program spendingCal aim community supports: through california's cal aim initiative, mercy house bridged the gap between healthcare and housing for hundreds of medi-cal members, delivering a continuum of services designed to move chronically ill and vulnerable individuals out of homelessness and into stable, sustained housing reducing costly emergency room visits and hospitalizations for some of the region's most medically complex residents. Mercy house guided members through the complex process of securing housing via housing transition navigation services, helping individuals overcome the systemic barriers that make finding housing particularly difficult for those with medical vulnerabilities. To remove one of the most common financial obstacles to housing entry, mercy house provided housing deposits, enabling individuals who would otherwise be unable to afford move-in costs to access stable housing. Once housed, members received housing tenancy and sustaining services to maintain their stability and prevent a return to homelessness. For the highest-need individuals, enhanced care management (ecm) services provided intensive, coordinated support that integrates medical, behavioral health, and…
$6,905,714 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $63,671,530.
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 2022 to 2023, from $20M to $28M (+37%).
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: 2017 70% · 2018 79% · 2019 85% · 2020 85% · 2021 90% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% · 2024 93% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Larry Haynes
CEO & president
Board chair
Tim Clyde
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 29 funders, grant income fell $563k → $540k.
16 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 HOUSE LIVING CENTERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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 HOUSE LIVING CENTERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
79% 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 HOUSE LIVING CENTERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 28% · 2019 24% · 2020 28% · 2021 16% · 2022 54% · 2023 14% — 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
49% of MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
70% of MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 HOUSE LIVING CENTERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 488 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 488 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $62.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$62.9M
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 HOUSE LIVING CENTERS
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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS: 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 HOUSE LIVING CENTERS?
- MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS (California) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,494,940 to it, the largest being Housing for Health Orange County Inc ($1,383,295). 53 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $8,494,940 in grants to MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS, 53 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS?
- Housing for Health Orange County Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,383,295 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 92 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing