California · Nonprofit
MERCY SPRING RANCH
MERCY SPRING RANCH (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,962 to it, the largest being The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation ($71,686). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $118k
What Mercy Spring Ranch does
Mission
To utilize horses and other ranch activities to help bring the hope, healing, and love of jesus christ to children and families that have experienced various types of trauma in their lives. This trauma may come in the form of previous physical, mental, or sexual abuse, human trafficking, a death or illness in the family, divorce, placement in the foster care system, bullying, etc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mercy Spring Ranch is a 501(c)3, non-profit, christian ministry that utilizes horses and other ranch activities to help bring the hope, healing, and love of jesus christ to children and families that have experienced various types of trauma in their lives. This trauma may come in the form of previous physical, mental, or sexual abuse, human trafficking, a death or illness in the family, divorce, placement in the foster care system, bullying, etc. The organization primarily serves the children and families in the stanislaus and san joaquin county communities of the california central valley. This is done free of charge, with none of the participants paying to participate in programs. Mercy Spring Ranch is a 100% volunteer organization with no paid staff.the organization offers a mentorship program. After more than three decades of working in youth ministry, the founders were well aware of the importance of mentoring youth. The benefits include increased high school graduation rates, lower high school dropout rates, healthier relationships and lifestyle choices, better attitude about school, higher college enrollment rates and educational aspirations, enhanced self-esteem and…
$84,576 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $84,576.
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 2019 to 2020, from $79k to $111k (+41%).
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.
74% of MERCY SPRING RANCH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $35k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 SPRING RANCH’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 SPRING RANCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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
36% 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 SPRING RANCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of MERCY SPRING RANCH's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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 SPRING RANCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MERCY SPRING RANCH
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.
Public support
69%
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 SPRING RANCH: 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 SPRING RANCH?
- MERCY SPRING RANCH (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,962 to it, the largest being The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation ($71,686). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY SPRING RANCH have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $111,962 in grants to MERCY SPRING RANCH, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY SPRING RANCH?
- The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $71,686 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY SPRING RANCH 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 5 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