Texas · Nonprofit
Mercy Ships International
Mercy Ships International (Texas) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,428,462 to it, the largest being The Happy Davis Foundation Inc ($10,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- Fulner Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- John T Cherry Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $149k → $1.6M.
21 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $13k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mercy Ships International). These are real filings, and they are not money Mercy Ships International raised.
From the IRS filings of Mercy Ships International’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 Ships International leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 96% · 2019 97% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 37% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
61% of Mercy Ships International's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
Mercy Ships International draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 65 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 116 organizations that share your funders
- Fulner Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John T Cherry Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vitantonio Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fong Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schweinfurth Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wesorick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vsp Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tawila Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irani Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Loris Masterton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 119 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Mercy Ships International
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Mercy Ships Foundation · exempt
- Mercy Ships · exempt
- Africa Mercy Malta Limited · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mercy Ships International: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Mercy Ships International?
- Mercy Ships International (Texas) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,428,462 to it, the largest being The Happy Davis Foundation Inc ($10,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mercy Ships International have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $14,428,462 in grants to Mercy Ships International, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mercy Ships International?
- The Happy Davis Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mercy Ships International find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 65funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing