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MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION

MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,229 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.4M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$544k
Net assets
$17M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Mercy Medical Foundation does

Mission

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make 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

  1. Organization's mission, vision, and tax-exempt purpose: the mission of Mercy Medical Foundation is to nurture the healing ministry of jesus christ by serving as the fundraising arm of mercy medical center, a related tax-exempt organization, and coordinating gifts of energy, talents, and financial resources to help build healthier communities throughout the mondak region. Fidelity to the gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we move toward the creation of healthier communities. It is Mercy Medical Foundation's goal to hold true to our core values of reverence, integrity, compassion, and excellence and to support the mission of mercy medical center (a related tax-exempt hospital) so that together we can build a healthier community. Mercy Medical Foundation has a foundation board which serves as the governing body for the foundation. The majority of board members are independent persons, representative of the community. Mercy Medical Foundation is incorporated as a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt, charitable foundation. The primary exempt purpose of the foundation is to support the charitable mission of mercy medical center, a related tax-exempt hospital, by…

    $935,655 spentof which $935,655 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $935,655.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($863k) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($6.4M)2018 Revenue 121 ($1.0M) Expenses 40 ($450k) Net assets 110 ($7.1M)2019 Revenue 140 ($1.2M) Expenses 48 ($536k) Net assets 123 ($7.9M)2020 Revenue 159 ($1.4M) Expenses 55 ($620k) Net assets 132 ($8.5M)2021 Revenue 155 ($1.3M) Expenses 109 ($1.2M) Net assets 147 ($9.4M)2022 Revenue 622 ($5.4M) Expenses 31 ($354k) Net assets 216 ($14M)2023 Revenue 131 ($1.1M) Expenses 70 ($787k) Net assets 219 ($14M)2024 Revenue 153 ($1.3M) Expenses 215 ($2.4M) Net assets 220 ($14M)2025 Revenue 396 ($3.4M) Expenses 89 ($1.0M) Net assets 266 ($17M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (396)Expenses (89)Net assets (266)Peer revenue range

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 $10M to $14M (+35%).

$6.8M
$7.2M
$8.4M
$8.6M
$10M
$14M
$15M
$14M
$17M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 6% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

55% of MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$263k
’17
$590k
’18
$672k
’19
$748k
’20
$104k
’21
$5.0M
’22
$340k
’23
−$1.1M
’24
$2.4M
’25
51
months of
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

Jane Mccoy

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed131414151617
Joined·+1+2+3+6+1
No longer listed·02250
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
'25*
total
funders
1
2

Left out of every figure on this page: $85k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercy Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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

92%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.

ND
MN
PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin71% · top quartile
Months of reserve51.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MERCY MEDICAL 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
82%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

ND

Part of a family of 333 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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY MEDICAL 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 FOUNDATION?
MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,229 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $544,229 in grants to MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of MERCY MEDICAL FOUNDATION?
OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MERCY MEDICAL 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 3 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