Virginia · Nonprofit
WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY
WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,327,285 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($257,800). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Williamsburg House of Mercy does
Mission
The Williamsburg House of Mercy (whom) provides food, shelter, comfort, and hope to our poor, homeless, precariously housed, and less fortunate neighbors in our commitment to assist all in need in our community. Whom's mission focus areas are on housing, outreach, food insecurity, and hope pregnancy center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Williamsburg House of Mercy provides quality compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith. The housing mission includes diversion, emergency rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing through our participation in the housing trust fund: homeless reduction grant, and harbor day shelter williamsburg's only day shelter offering weekday respite to those experiencing homelessness. The hope pregnancy center offers material support for expectant mothers and new families. Through the outreach mission, we offer utility assistance, eviction assistance, and supportive services to those struggling to maintain housing, regain stability, and/or to prevent homelessness. The food insecurity mission offers a usda food distribution, general food pantry distribution, and weekday community kitchen lunches. Special programs offered to all clients and community members include general health screenings, job fairs, resume and budget classes, mother/fatherhood support groups, thanksgiving meal support, christmas toy market, and back to school supply distribution.
$3,319,900 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,319,900.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $641k to $1.4M (+120%).
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 5% · 2022 11% · 2023 19% · 2024 25% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $19k → $177k.
16 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
77% 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 WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 45% · 2019 62% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 29% · 2023 23% — 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
37% of WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY'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
59% of WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY'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 $547k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $780k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY?
- WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,327,285 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($257,800). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $1,327,285 in grants to WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $257,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 42 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