Connecticut · Nonprofit
MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION
MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,867,881 to it, the largest being JOURNEY HOME INC ($2,554,160). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation does
Mission
Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with dignity and respect. Mercy seeks to end homelessness by advocating for changes in the social systems that perpetuate homelessness. Mercy welcomes and serves all in need, in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, who founded the organization in 1983.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
St. Elizabeth house - offers multiple residential programs within a single site at 118 main street in hartford, including 1) transitional housing for 10 adults being discharged from mental health, residential facilities or otherwise homeless with mental health disabilities. Clients are provided intensive case management services to enable them to return to independent living in the community. 2) short term housing for 13 adults on probation. The goal is to break the cycle of incarceration to homelessness and help people find stable housing and employment opportunities in the community. 3)short-term housing to 22 women with substance use disorders while they receive individual and group counselling services in the community, as well as basic needs, case management for substance abuse and co-occurring disorders, housing, and employment search. 4) housing and intensive services for 9 people living with hiv/aids and co-occurring behavioral health concerns while working to obtain permanent, more independent housing in the community. All residents of st. Elizabeth house receive daily meals, a private room, and assistance with online job searches, applications, interviewing, resume…
$2,054,220 spent26% of program spendingDiversion and rapid rehousing last year, 152 clients were served in rapid rehousing and 729 through hartford-based shelter diversion programming. Shelter diversion program- prevents homelessness at the front door of the homelessness response system by helping people experiencing a housing crisis to identify immediate alternative housing arrangements and, if necessary, connecting them with services and financial assistance to help them return to permanent housing. Mercy provides these services for both the greater hartford and meriden-middlesex-wallingford coordinated access network (can), with a satellite office in portland, ct. As part of mercy's shelter diversion services, the coordinated entry hub is designed to increase walk-in access to can appointments; increase positive diversion outcomes for eligible households; and increase local capacity to field follow-up questions and inquiries from households post-can appointment, thereby, reducing the number of duplicate calls for homeless services to our state's 211 system. Added last year, the hub serves 2,603 clients on an annual basis. Rapid re housing (rrh) - provides short-term rental assistance in community apartments paired…
$2,037,039 spentof which $190,236 as grants26% of program spendingPermanent supportive housing: mercy offers permanent supportive housing programs across hartford, tolland and middlesex counties, providing rental assistance combined with supportive services for homeless persons with very low incomes, serious and persistent conditions including, but not limited to, substance use disorder, hiv/aids, mental health challenges or co-occurring disabilities. Mercy supports hundreds of clients establish permanent housing annually. The goal of supportive housing is to help clients remain stably housed through a variety of supportive services designed to help them live independently and hold their own leases.212 total clients served by supportive housing.
$1,685,759 spentof which $341,713 as grants21% of program spendingThe haven at charter oak - the haven at charter oak (the haven) is a young adult services transitional living program located at 7 charter oak place in hartford, operated 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week by mercy in partnership with dmhas. The program serves 15 young adults 18-24 years old transitioning from dcf or other settings who are referred by dmhas. The building consists of nine (9) single rooms and one (1) double room bedrooms with shared common areas such as bathrooms, laundry room, living room, reading nook and kitchen to ensure participants have access to both privacy and the opportunity to grow their social skills. Residents remain in the program on average from 3-18 months while continuing to engage in clinical services and working on improving independent living skills so that they can eventually thrive in the community. The residence at saint mary home - a supervised housing program for 15 individuals with serious and persistent mental health disabilities that prevent them from living successfully and independently in the community. The program, located at st. Mary's home, which is part of the mercy community, provides recovery-oriented case management…
$2,068,691 spent$56,408 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,845,709.
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 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $13M (+10%).
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 78% · 2018 81% · 2019 85% · 2020 80% · 2021 85% · 2022 84% · 2023 89% · 2024 89% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kara A Capone
CEO
Board chair
Diane Bengston
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 14 funders, grant income rose $208k → $729k.
9 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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 & SHELTER CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 & SHELTER CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 45% · 2019 46% · 2020 51% · 2021 36% · 2022 80% · 2023 64% — 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
27% of MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
84% of MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 & SHELTER CORPORATION has grown faster than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $47.6M on record — $1.0M federal, $46.6M state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$510k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k
- Client Services-General$31.6M
- State Aid Grants$11.6M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$3.0M
- Board & Care Of Clients$329k
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 & SHELTER CORPORATION
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- My Sisters' Place Inc · exempt
- Community Housing Advocates Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION?
- MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,867,881 to it, the largest being JOURNEY HOME INC ($2,554,160). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $4,867,881 in grants to MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION?
- JOURNEY HOME INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,554,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 50 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