Illinois · Nonprofit
MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,648,982 to it, the largest being FLORENCE C GREGORY CHARITABLE TR(T) ($1,044,338). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.7M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $55M
What Mercyhealth Development Foundation Inc does
Mission
Mercyhealth's mission is to provide exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better, guided by a vision of excellence in patient care, service, partnership, and cost-effectiveness. Core values include holistic healing, prioritizing patients, treating each other like family, and striving for excellence. The foundation supports this mission by leveraging philanthropic resources to strengthen programs and services across the health system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fy2025, endowments and restricted funds enabled continuing education and professional development for employees throughout the health system, including specialized training for partners and physicians and scholarship opportunities for students. Restricted gifts also funded essential patient support, including assistance for indigent individuals, transportation for cancer patients undergoing treatment, care and comfort items for hospice patients and critical equipment for neonatal intensive care units (nicus).donations from the auxiliary supported initiatives such as: - ronald mcdonald care mobile - nursing scholarships for underrepresented students - pet therapy programs - radiology school assistance
$5,194,894 spentof which $5,194,894 as grants87% of program spendingThrough charitable contributions, the foundation continued to fund the ronald mcdonald care mobile, operated by mercyhealth clinicians, providing free medical care to uninsured and underinsured children at more than 12 sites across northern illinois. Services included vaccinations, lead and blood screenings, medical evaluations, and treatment to prevent emergency room visits.the annual charity ball and other fundraisers through the year benefited the house of mercy, a homeless shelter in janesville. In fy2025, the house of mercy provided 8,412 shelter nights, serving 201 individuals (139 adults and 62 children).
$598,308 spentof which $598,308 as grants10% of program spendingThe partner crisis fund continued to provide financial assistance to employees experiencing severe hardships such as natural disasters, serious illness, or family loss. The foundation also funded patient care exams, therapies, classes, and equipment, as well as rent and transportation assistance for indigent families. Additional support was provided to mercyhealth at home for elderly and homebound patients, and to the autism support program, which assisted 27 individuals in fy2025.
$81,084 spentof which $81,084 as grants1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$89,623 spentof which $27,600 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,963,909.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $51M to $60M (+19%).
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 0% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Javon R Bea
President/CEO (see pages 41-42)
Board chair
Patrick O'Keefe
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $114k → $347k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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: $230k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Javon Bea Hospital). These are real filings, and they are not money MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC’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
MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
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 MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 43% · 2019 43% · 2020 34% · 2021 31% · 2022 32% · 2023 35% — 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
57% of MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
71% of MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k 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
MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 13 related entities
- Mercy Health Corporation · exempt
- Rockford Health Physicians · exempt
- Javon Bea Hospital · exempt
- Mercyhealth Visiting Nurses Association Inc · exempt
- Mercy Health System Association of Volunteers · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC?
- MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,648,982 to it, the largest being FLORENCE C GREGORY CHARITABLE TR(T) ($1,044,338). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $3,648,982 in grants to MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC?
- FLORENCE C GREGORY CHARITABLE TR(T) is the largest funder on record, with $1,044,338 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 17 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