Missouri · Nonprofit
MERCY RESEARCH
MERCY RESEARCH (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,555 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($53,456). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $797k
What Mercy Research does
Mission
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mercy Research comprises the research activities that occur throughout mercy health. Mercy Research is organized for the promotion of medical research that improves health and prevents disease. Mercy Research is a centralized, multi-faceted research group within mercy health, comprised of clinicians, engineers, scientists and business specialists dedicated to improving patient care and the continuous advancement of medicine. Product design and development and clinical validation are at the core of Mercy Research. Mercy Research is committed to advancing the quality of health care for individuals and communities by being a leader in innovative clinical, scientific and health services research.
$6,788,656 spent$3,651,698 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,788,656.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.9M to $880k (−53%).
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: 2018 14% · 2019 10% · 2020 17% · 2021 14% · 2022 11% · 2023 3% · 2024 0% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Laws Kelle K
Executive director
Board chair
Carlson Do Jay
Clinical chair, mercy research
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $17k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $1.5M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercy Health Foundation St Louis). These are real filings, and they are not money MERCY RESEARCH raised.
From the IRS filings of MERCY RESEARCH’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 RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 100% — 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
MERCY RESEARCH draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like MERCY RESEARCH
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 80 related entities
- Casa de Misericordia · exempt
- McAuley Portfolio Management Company · exempt
- Mercy Aco Clinical Services Inc · exempt
- Mercy Clinic East Communities · exempt
- Mercy Clinic Fort Smith Communities · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCY RESEARCH: 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 RESEARCH?
- MERCY RESEARCH (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,555 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($53,456). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $109,555 in grants to MERCY RESEARCH, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY RESEARCH?
- WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $53,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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