California · Nonprofit
MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED
MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $725,000 to it, the largest being SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ($540,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $725k
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Mission Merced Incorporated does
Mission
MERCED RESCUE MISSION: MISSION, VISION AND PURPOSE:Our MISSION is to exhibit the love and caring of Jesus Christ; transforming lives for those in our county who are in physcial and spirtual need.Our VISION is to be the hands, feet and voice of Christ in Merced County; advocating for the dispossessed, battered, hungry and destitute.Our PURPOSE is to continue the work of Jesus Christ through evangelizing, disciplining, and serving the spritual and physical needs of the disadvantages. We provide emergency subsistence and rehabilitation programs for men, women and families, including skills training for the intter-city poor. We also strive to inform and involve the public in caring for the poverty-stricken, with the ultimate goal being the restoration of the whole person.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
OTHER PROGRAMSMerced Rescue Mission operates a New Life Transformation Program called "Hope for Men," "Hope for Women, and Transformation to Hope". These are 9-12 month faith-based programs. These programs receive men and women who have been incarcerated, experiencing homelessness, struggling with addiction issues or simply feel hopeless. These programs address addiction issues, and build life skills that help people become self-sustaining through finding jobs. Family reunifications also an important part of this program.
$2,230,373 spent34% of program spendingNAVIGATION CENTERMission Merced operates the Navigation Center which is Emergency Homeless Services for people living on the streets (daily meals, showers, clothing, shelter, etc.). This program is a service-rich environment where Golden Valley Health Centers operates a clinic, Behavioral Health Department provides a staff person and the Human Service Agency provides a staff person. The Navigation Center is also staffed with a full-time Housing Navigator and Case Managers. This is a co-ed and pet-friendly environment. The goal of this program is to help people find permanent housing.
$1,601,372 spent24% of program spendingHOPE RESPITE CARE PROGRAMIndividuals experiencing homelessness who are discharged from the hospital into the Hope Respite Care program, receive whole-person care coordination while they recover. This innovative collaboration includes relationships with Mercy Medical Center Merced, Sutter Memorial Hospital Los Banos, Central California Alliance for Health, Golden Valley Health Centers, and Stanislaus State University Our Hope Respite Care locations are friendly, welcoming and offer participants access to the full suite of comprehensive health care services as well as case managers, transportation services, mail pick up, housing navigation and access to supportive services. We have entered into a relationship with Central California Alliance for Health to provide Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports for our clients on Medi-Cal. Enhanced Care Management (ECM) helps guide clients with their medical care. ECM can also help them find community services that are related to their care. Community Support helps with housing, getting food after a hospital discharge, hospital discharge support and more.
$1,201,173 spent18% of program spendingOTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: SENIOR MEALSMission Merced is contracted with Merced County Area Agency on Aging to provide a hot lunch meal delivered to seven locations throughout Merced County through a program called "Living Well Cafe." The purpose is not only to provide a complete balanced dietary meal but also for the socialization of the seniors in the community. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: OTHER PROGRAMSMerced Rescue Mission operates a New Life Transformation Program called "Hope for Men," "Hope for Women, and Transformation to Hope". These are 9-12 month faith-based programs. These programs receive men and women who have been incarcerated, experiencing homelessness, struggling with addiction issues or simply feel hopeless. These programs address addiction issues, and build life skills that help people become self-sustaining through finding jobs. Family reunifications also an important part of this program.
$1,597,370 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,630,288.
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 $3.1M to $5.8M (+84%).
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: 2022 31% · 2023 97% · 2024 96% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% 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.
Board chair
Mark Mayo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $280k → $180k.
From the IRS filings of MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
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 MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 64% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
74% of MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 135 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 135 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED?
- MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $725,000 to it, the largest being SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ($540,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $725,000 in grants to MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED?
- SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS is the largest funder on record, with $540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION MERCED INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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