Illinois · Nonprofit
MISERICORDIA HOME
MISERICORDIA HOME (Illinois) receives grants from 235 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,145,142 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,917,017). 142 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $182M
- Funders on record
- 235
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $351M
What Misericordia Home does
Mission
The mission of Misericordia Home is to support children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who choose our community by providing the highest quality residential, training, and employment services. We provide the full continuum of care designed to meet each person's changing needs and maximize his or her independence, self-determination, interpersonal relationships, and engagement in the community. Through our dedicated families, employees, volunteers, supporters and community networks, we offer an environment that fosters each person's spirituality, dignity, respect, and quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in chicago in 1921 Misericordia Home provides a network of services and a continuum of care for over 600 children and adults from diverse racial religious and socioeconomic backgrounds with disabilities ranging from mild or moderate to severe and profound. Each resident has an individually designed program developed to meet his/her unique needs with an overall goal of living as independent and meaningful a life as possible. Misericordia provides: -residential and day to day support from 24-hour skilled nursing care to independent living in one of nineteen cila homes in the community; -comprehensive learning programs job training and work opportunities to meet each person's unique abilities from a person with severe disabilities mixing soil in the greenhouse to an adult with mild disabilities working at a local company; -physical, occupational and speech therapies, provided in two state of the art therapy centers; -fitness training and healthy living guidance, offered in a spacious aquatic and fitness center; -social and recreational activities on campus as well as outings in the chicagoland area; -opportunities for spiritual growth, including regular services for persons…
$115,013,754 spentof which $83,600 as grants$83,601,066 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $115,013,754.
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 2024 to 2025, from $979M to $364M (−63%).
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 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of MISERICORDIA HOME’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Reverend John J Clair
President/executive director
Board chair
Mary Dempsey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 47 funders to 89 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $7.2M.
47 of 235 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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: $59M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Misericordia Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MISERICORDIA HOME raised.
From the IRS filings of MISERICORDIA HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 235 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
MISERICORDIA HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
70% 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 MISERICORDIA HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 23% · 2019 19% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 19% · 2023 25% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of MISERICORDIA HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
64% of MISERICORDIA HOME'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 $19M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34M arriving through sponsors registered in 22 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
MISERICORDIA HOME runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 180 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like MISERICORDIA HOME
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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
- Misericordia Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISERICORDIA HOME: 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 MISERICORDIA HOME?
- MISERICORDIA HOME (Illinois) receives grants from 235 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,145,142 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,917,017). 142 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISERICORDIA HOME have?
- IRS filings report 235 organizations giving $53,145,142 in grants to MISERICORDIA HOME, 142 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISERICORDIA HOME?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,917,017 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISERICORDIA HOME 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 235 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing