California · Nonprofit
MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER
MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,322,433 to it, the largest being THE CARL GELLERT AND CELIA BERTA GELLERT FOUNDATION ($1,150,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $30M
What Mercy Retirement and Care Center does
Mission
A nonprofit organization committed to serving and enriching the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of older adults through a professional, faith-centered care community and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mercy Retirement and Care Center is licensed for 59 skilled nursing residents. This year, the care center provided skilled nursing care to 46.3 older adult residents each month (on average) for a fiscal year total of over 16,908 residents days. Of our residents, 3.8% were private pay, 79.8% had medi-cal, 10.2% had medicare, and 6.2% had other insurance coverage.
$10,678,631 spent$9,198,370 earned by the program42% of program spendingMercy's assisted living provides housing and services for up to 85 older adult residents that require some assistance with medication or daily activities. This fiscal year, we provided assisted living housing for 52.1 residents each month (on average), excluding second persons in each apartment, for a fiscal year total of 18,988 resident days. The assisted living residents are offered five levels of care in addition to the base level of care so that their individual needs can be met. There are many activities provided for our assisted living residents, including many that reflect our faith-centered mission.
$7,567,071 spent$5,494,489 earned by the program30% of program spendingMercy's brown bag program, provides food distribution to low income seniors. For almost 40 years, mercy brown bag volunteers have filled and distributed groceries to over 66 sites throughout alameda county. The program is funded by contributions and grants.
$5,024,176 spent20% of program spendingMercy's memory care neighborhood provides housing and services for up to 22 older adult residents who have dementia or memory loss. This year, we provided memory care housing for 19.0 residents each month (on average) for a total of 6,950 resident days. The memory care neighborhood has many daily activities designed for dementia or memory loss residents.
$2,270,112 spent$3,232,176 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,539,990.
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 2020 to 2021, from $40M to $56M (+40%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 13% · 2021 4% · 2022 10% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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.
Chief executive
Torsten Hirche
President & CEO
Board chair
Jesse Bond
Chair & director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $57k → $391k.
9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
32% 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 RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 27% · 2019 80% · 2020 31% · 2021 36% · 2022 58% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
76% of MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $375k 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 RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 21 related entities
- Transforming Age · exempt
- Presbyterian Retirement Communities Northwest · exempt
- Transforming Age Foundation · exempt
- Fred Lind Manor · exempt
- Full Life Care · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER?
- MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,322,433 to it, the largest being THE CARL GELLERT AND CELIA BERTA GELLERT FOUNDATION ($1,150,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $5,322,433 in grants to MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER?
- THE CARL GELLERT AND CELIA BERTA GELLERT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing