Georgia · Nonprofit
MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN
MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,341,167 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($1,100,886). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Mercymed of Columbus Inc Attn Tony Nguyen does
Mission
Mercymed of columbus, inc. (mercymed) exists to proclaim jesus christ as lord and to demonstrate his love by providing affordable, quality healthcare for the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of the underserved. As a non-profit healthcare center, mercymed provides healthcare in the community through three locations in columbus, georgia. Mercymed is focused on serving the uninsured and underinsured, who historically struggle to access basic healthcare service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mercymed serves as the primary care provider in the community for family and internal medicine, pediatric care, prescription assistance, and health education and disease management classes. Mercymed also provides mental health services including addiction counseling and bipolar support groups, and marriage, individual, and family counseling as a service to our patients. In 2017 mercymed began offering limited dental care focused on pain managment (extractions, fillings, etc.) in 2019, mercymed started offering physical therapy to help patients reduce pain and improve strength, flexibility, and balance.mercymed also partners with local physicians and organizations to provide specialty services, including cardiology, dermatology, gynecology, orthopedic, ultrasound and vision services. In total, mercymed served over 9,000 patients during the fiscal year.
$3,259,368 spent$1,782,242 earned by the program99% of program spendingMercymed farm is a sustainable urban micro-farm that serves our patients and neighbors by providing seasonal fruits and vegetables that are affordable and accessible to anyone, 12 months of the year. Through our urban farm, we offer discounted fruits and vegetables at a weekly market as a way to incentivize healthy eating for our neighbors and patients. We also participate in farmer's markets in the area.
$25,672 spent$38,069 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,285,040.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.9M to $7.3M (+25%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Grant Scarborough Md
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $169k → $979k.
7 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
48% 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 MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 44% · 2019 33% · 2020 20% · 2021 26% · 2022 38% · 2023 46% — 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
63% of MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
96% of MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14 on record.
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Second Avenue Investors LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN: 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 MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN?
- MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,341,167 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ($1,100,886). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $5,341,167 in grants to MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,100,886 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43 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