Arizona · Nonprofit
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION
MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,520,615 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($5,788,014). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Mercy Medical Center Merced Foundation does
Mission
To provide financial assistance and supporting services for dignity health (dba: mercy medical center merced). The financial support provided by the foundation contributes to the hospital's mission by making the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation is an irc sec 509(a)(3) supporting organization to dignity health, dba mercy medical center merced (hospital). As a supporting organization, the foundation operates exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the function of, or to carry out the purposes of the hospital which include making payments directly to the hospital.
$1,497,409 spentof which $1,497,409 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,497,409.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.4M to $3.3M (+34%).
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 0% · 2022 3% · 2024 7% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Kaaren Morgner
Chair (thru 6/30/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $636k → $682k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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 MERCED FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 86% · 2019 97% · 2020 52% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $628k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 338 related entities
- Alegent Creighton Clinic · exempt
- Alegent Creighton Health · exempt
- Alegent Health - Bergan Mercy Health System · exempt
- Alegent Health - Comm Mem Hospital of Mo Valley Ia · exempt
- Alegent Health - Immanuel Medical Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION: 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 MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION?
- MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,520,615 to it, the largest being DIGNITY HEALTH ($5,788,014). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $6,520,615 in grants to MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION?
- DIGNITY HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $5,788,014 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 8 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