Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC
MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,495,321 to it, the largest being Patriarch Family Foundation ($320,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc does
Mission
The mission of mercy neighborhood ministries is to respond to the needs of the underserved in our community. Our vision is that the families we serve are empowered, successful and thriving.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early education & afterschool: our largest programming area of early education & youth development consists of our head start preschool program starting at 2.5 years old, and our out-of-school time serving kindergarten through 8th grade during the school year and summer months. We focus on creating a fun, safe, engaging environment that instills a love of learning at an early age, while providing our older children with a well-rounded environment and experience to positively enhance their academic, emotional, physical and social development.
$2,939,748 spent$160,863 earned by the program77% of program spendingAdult education: our longstanding adult education program works alongside our newer path to prosperity program in improving individuals' skills for economic success. Through the program, individuals receive one-on-one or small group tutoring to improve basic math, reading/literacy and computer skills. Support and guidance in preparing and attaining one's ged is also available.
$518,626 spent$91,063 earned by the program14% of program spendingPath to prosperity: a path to prosperity, in partnership with the city of philadelphia, was created to combat the gun violence and opioid crisis inflicting our city by building career pathways for every community in philadelphia. In the two years since the program's inception, we've helped over 120 individuals improve interview skills, update resumes and connect them with sustainable, viable career opportunities.
$278,094 spent7% of program spendingMercy meals
$81,681 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,818,149.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $5.7M to $5.1M (−11%).
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: 2021 23% · 2023 60% · 2024 55% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
Robert Graham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $52k → $377k.
9 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
29% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 66% · 2019 41% · 2020 17% · 2021 13% · 2022 24% · 2023 16% — 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
63% of MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
74% of MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $295k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC: 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 NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC?
- MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,495,321 to it, the largest being Patriarch Family Foundation ($320,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,495,321 in grants to MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC?
- Patriarch Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $320,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 48 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