Iowa · Nonprofit
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER (Iowa) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,712,561 to it, the largest being THE HALL-PERRINE FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 877 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
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.
- The McIntyre Foundationshared funderslocal
- Hospital Industry Data Instituteportfolio match
- The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Networkportfolio 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: 2020 4% · 2021 1% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of MERCY MEDICAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income rose $376k → $754k.
4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $72M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercy Hospitalcedar Rapidsia Endowment Foundation Inc); $100k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Mercy Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money MERCY MEDICAL CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of MERCY MEDICAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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 MEDICAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 50% · 2019 51% · 2020 39% · 2021 91% · 2022 97% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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 MEDICAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
91% of MERCY MEDICAL CENTER's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
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 25 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The McIntyre Foundationshared funderslocalKS · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 30 organizations near you
- Hospital Industry Data Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Illinois Critical Access Hospital Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Hospital Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arkansas Hospital Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Hospital Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Hospital Research & Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthcare Services Group Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Research & Educational Foundation of the Ohio Hospital Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michigan Center for Rural Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Cardiology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Amga Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 MEDICAL CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14 on record.
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14
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 MEDICAL CENTER
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Mercycare Accountable Care Organization LLC · disregarded
- Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids Ia Endowment Foundation Inc · exempt
- Mercycare Service Corporation · exempt
- Mercy-Phs Senior Housing Inc · exempt
- Mr Associates LLP · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY MEDICAL CENTER: 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 MEDICAL CENTER?
- MERCY MEDICAL CENTER (Iowa) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,712,561 to it, the largest being THE HALL-PERRINE FOUNDATION ($3,500,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY MEDICAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $4,712,561 in grants to MERCY MEDICAL CENTER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY MEDICAL CENTER?
- THE HALL-PERRINE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY MEDICAL CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25funders 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