Washington · Nonprofit
Mercy Rains-Africa
Mercy Rains-Africa (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,626 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $269k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Mercy Rains-Africa does
Mission
Provide support to a community-based organization that provides education, nutrition, and healthcare to less privileged children in Sub-Saharan Africa. It was founded by a former Compassion International child. They manage and support a private Christian school. On the US side, Mercy Rains provides support to that organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Love Restoration is a community-based organization that provides education, nutrition, and healthcare to less privileged children in Sub-Saharan Africa. It was founded by a former Compassion International child. They manage and support a private Christian school. Mercy Rains provides support to Love Restoration on the US side.Education Impact:Donor support helps keep tuition affordable while maintaining strong academic standards. In 2025, all 16 Primary Seven (P.7) students successfully achieved the grades required to transition into secondary school. Mercy Rains Africa also provided $45 in tuition assistance for each of the 11 students attending secondary school through our scholarship program. The school is now ranked among the top private schools in the local area, and partner schools have begun sponsoring some of our top graduates for continued education.Nutrition Support:The school provided daily breakfast and lunch to 325 students each school day. At the end-of-year celebration, food baskets were distributed to approximately 350 families, and the community gathered for a shared meal. These meals are critical in a region where many families face food insecurity and…
$250,433 spentof which $244,578 as grants$4,817 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $250,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $23k to $128k (+456%).
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.
98% of Mercy Rains-Africa’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $65 → $5k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Rains-Africa’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 Rains-Africa leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
100% 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 Rains-Africa.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of Mercy Rains-Africa's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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 Rains-Africa has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Mercy Rains-Africa
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mercy Rains-Africa: 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 Rains-Africa?
- Mercy Rains-Africa (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,626 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mercy Rains-Africa have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,626 in grants to Mercy Rains-Africa, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mercy Rains-Africa?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mercy Rains-Africa find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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