Colorado · Nonprofit
MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA
MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA (Colorado) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,871,861 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($6,450,500). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $136M
What Mercy Housing California does
Mission
The mission of Mercy Housing California is to directly facilitate the provision of affordable housing to families, seniors, people with special needs, homeless and potentially homeless individuals who would otherwise lack the financial resources to obtain quality, safe housing. Further, Mercy Housing California provides a variety of free programs and services to residents of their affordable housing projects which are designed to improve their lives and the communities in which they live.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Resident services and programs are provided free of charge to residents of low-income multi-family rental properties including families, seniors, and people with special needs. The resident services and programs fall into four primary areas - education, community, health and wellness, and economic stability. Resident services and programs are tailored to meet the needs of each low-income housing community, including after-school programs for children, ged and english courses, employment initiatives and homeownership seminars.
$22,374,877 spentof which $7,555,880 as grants$816,068 earned by the program49% of program spendingHousing development programs and services include acquiring acceptable locations for either new construction or rehabilitation of existing properties for multi-family rental properties or single family housing units to provide affordable housing to low-income residents, obtaining financing for the development of low-income properties and housing units, and managing the construction and/or rehabilitation of low-income properties and housing units through obtaining the certification of occupancy and project completion.
$19,802,786 spent$17,752,002 earned by the program44% of program spendingAsset management services are provided to low-income multi-family rental properties and include preparing and managing annual operating budgets, preparing reports for investors and lenders, overseeing the property management services, and ensuring and monitoring compliance to meet regulatory and eligibility requirements of residents.
$3,147,024 spent$9,699,847 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,324,687.
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 2017 to 2018, from $99M to $150M (+52%).
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 14% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 32% · 2021 6% · 2022 20% · 2023 21% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Ellen Jamason
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.3M.
10 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $23M from 13 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercy Housing Calwest). These are real filings, and they are not money MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA raised.
From the IRS filings of MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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 HOUSING CALIFORNIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
36% 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 HOUSING CALIFORNIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 55% · 2019 82% · 2020 50% · 2021 55% · 2022 59% · 2023 43% — 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
31% of MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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 HOUSING CALIFORNIA is better cushioned than half of the 817 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 817 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.9M
- National Endowment for the Arts$100k
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 HOUSING CALIFORNIA
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 508 related entities
- Mercy Mather Veterans 3 LLC · disregarded
- Mh California Properties 1 LLC · disregarded
- Mercy Housing California 111 LLC (Treasure Island Senior Gp) · disregarded
- California Land Acquisition Fund LLC · disregarded
- California Land Acquisition Fund Holding I LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: 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 HOUSING CALIFORNIA?
- MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA (Colorado) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,871,861 to it, the largest being CRANKSTART FOUNDATION ($6,450,500). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $32,871,861 in grants to MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA?
- CRANKSTART FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,450,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 63 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