Texas · Nonprofit
MERCY STREET
MERCY STREET (Texas) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,501,940 to it, the largest being Communities Foundation of Texas Inc ($1,323,431). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MERCY STREET runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,925 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- State Fair of Texasshared fundersportfolio match
- Junior League of Dallas Incshared funderslocal
- Leveling the Playing Field 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of MERCY STREET’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $870k → $1.6M.
21 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 STREET’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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 STREET has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
62% 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 STREET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 23% · 2019 23% · 2020 21% · 2021 14% · 2022 17% · 2023 13% — 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
40% of MERCY STREET's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
75% of MERCY STREET's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 92 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- State Fair of Texasshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Junior League of Dallas Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 50 organizations near you
- Leveling the Playing Field Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Sports Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beyond Sport Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womens Sports Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Soccer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 90 organizations that share your funders · funds 115 organizations near you
- Hillcrest Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 176 organizations that share your funders · funds 228 organizations near you
- The Addy Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 108 organizations that share your funders · funds 172 organizations near you
- Hamon Charitable Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 42 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 STREET
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 STREET: 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 STREET?
- MERCY STREET (Texas) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,501,940 to it, the largest being Communities Foundation of Texas Inc ($1,323,431). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCY STREET have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $11,501,940 in grants to MERCY STREET, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCY STREET?
- Communities Foundation of Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,323,431 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCY STREET 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 92funders 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