Colorado · Nonprofit
MercyGift
MercyGift (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,776 to it, the largest being UNCOMMON CHARITABLE IMPACT INC ($359,352). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $298k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $488k
- Net assets
- $44k
What MercyGift does
Mission
MercyGift exists to resource churches, train leaders and church planters, and pastor missionaries through strategic partnerships, leadership development, and global ministry support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Resourcing Churches The organization supported churches in six U.S. states by reviewing and restructuring mission programs, teaching on missional living, and providing leadership resources. MercyGift facilitated partnerships between U.S. churches and ministries in Africa, resulting in over 120,000 in new and ongoing annual support for work in Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Africa. The organization also hosted and taught a 32-week home-based small group attended by missional leaders from multiple organizations, creating collaboration, ideation, celebration, and implementation of ministry initiatives.
$43,535 spent21% of program spendingTraining Leaders and Supporting Church Planting The organization advanced leadership development by hosting and teaching a 32-week home group, conducting prayer meetings, and providing virtual instruction and mentoring to workers in Africa and the 10/40 Window. Through partnerships with African leadership schools and ministry networks, MercyGift contributed to training over 9,000 leaders across Africa and 300 leaders in the 10/40 Window. Additional activities included coaching ministries on fundraising, organizational structure, and church-planting strategies.
$76,923 spent37% of program spendingPastoring and Supporting Missionaries The organization provided pastoral care, mentoring, counseling, and sustainability coaching to missionaries serving in the United States, Honduras, Azerbaijan, South Africa, Congo, Ukraine, Israel, Mexico, and the 10/40 Window. Support included Zoom meetings, narrative updates, crisis-care assistance, and on-site visits to missionaries in the Middle East. The home-based small group also served as relational support for missionaries preparing for or returning from field assignments.
$26,201 spent13% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 58,850, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Other Program Services Other activities advanced MercyGifts three core objectives by providing international coordination, development of training resources, and administrative support to global ministry partners. The organization also made donations to other ministries to strengthen mission initiatives, support leadership development, and expand outreach efforts consistent with MercyGifts exempt purposes.
$58,850 spent29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $205,509.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $43k to $83k (+96%).
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.
100% of MercyGift’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $98 → $120k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 MercyGift’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
MercyGift leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 MercyGift.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
95% of MercyGift's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $463k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MercyGift has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MercyGift
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 MercyGift: 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 MercyGift?
- MercyGift (Colorado) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $487,776 to it, the largest being UNCOMMON CHARITABLE IMPACT INC ($359,352). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MercyGift have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $487,776 in grants to MercyGift, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MercyGift?
- UNCOMMON CHARITABLE IMPACT INC is the largest funder on record, with $359,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MercyGift find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2020–2024), 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