Nebraska · Nonprofit
Merrick Medical Center
Merrick Medical Center (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,618 to it, the largest being MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ($682,333). 3 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
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $719k
- Net assets
- $26M
What Merrick Medical Center does
Mission
Merrick Medical Center is committed to promoting and providing personalized, compassionate, quality health services. Merrick Medical Center's vision is to be the leader in patient-centered care, providing exceptional service, quality outcomes and making a measurable improvement in the health and lives of others.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Merrick Medical Center (mmc), is a hospital organization located in central city, nebraska, and is part of the bryan health system. Mmc was incorporated on march 15, 2017, with hospital operations commencing on july 1, 2017. Mmc operates a 6 licensed bed critical access hospital and 2 physician clinics. Mmc is committed to serving patients and the community by investing funds in facilities, technology, physicians, and staff to deliver premium healthcare to central city and the surrounding communities. Mmc supports numberous health care services, fitness and wellness programs, telehealth technology and community partnerships. During 2023, mmc provided inpatient acute and swing bed services to 190 patients. Also, mmc performed 309 surgical procedures and provided primary care physician services with 12,869 visits. In 2023, mmc provided charity care to 383 patients and served 832 medicaid patients. Mmc is a nebraska nonprofit corporation as described in section 501(c)(3) of the code and has received a determination letter that it is exempt from federal income taxes on related income pursuant to section 501(a) of the code.
$22,531,028 spent$25,533,901 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,531,028.
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 2020 to 2021, from $20M to $39M (+90%).
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 9% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of Merrick Medical Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $165k → $26k.
1 of 3 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Merrick Medical Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Merrick Medical Center raised.
From the IRS filings of Merrick Medical Center’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
Merrick Medical Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
99% 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 Merrick Medical Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 78% · 2022 66% — 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 Merrick Medical Center'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 $36k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $682k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Merrick Medical Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Merrick Medical Center
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 21 related entities
- Bryan Health · exempt
- Bryan Physician Network · exempt
- Bryan Medical Center · exempt
- Bryan Foundation · exempt
- Crete Area Medical Center · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Merrick Medical Center: 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 Merrick Medical Center?
- Merrick Medical Center (Nebraska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $718,618 to it, the largest being MERRICK FOUNDATION INC ($682,333). 3 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 Merrick Medical Center have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $718,618 in grants to Merrick Medical Center, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Merrick Medical Center?
- MERRICK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $682,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Merrick Medical Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 3 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