Mercy Housing California
Denver, CO · EIN 94-3081666. Reported 85 grants totalling $74.2M to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Mercy Housing California, the IRS classifies it under housing & shelter rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE L20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 32% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 43% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $151,269. Half of what it reported fell between $23,492 and $500,000; the smallest was $5,450 and the largest $11.8M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Housing Inc | Denver, CO | $23.7M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| 1064 Mission Lp | Denver, CO | $6,578,127 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City and County of San Francisco Finance Corporation | San Francisco, CA | $5,539,681 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tahanantipping Point Equity | San Francisco, CA | $5,405,858 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sycamore Street | Santa Cruz, CA | $4,902,197 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mercy Housing California 89 Lp | Denver, CO | $4,031,720 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercy Housing California 87 Lp | Denver, CO | $4,030,219 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Calwest Gp Mission Bay Block 6 | San Francisco, CA | $3,400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mercy Morgan Development Gp | Denver, CO | $1,854,270 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The@kelsey | San Francisco, CA | $1,500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mercy Kimball Development Gp | Denver, CO | $1,473,630 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Laguna Senior Housing Lp | Denver, CO | $1,407,152 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mercy Housing California Xl | Denver, CO | $1,387,203 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Parcel O455 Fell | Denver, CO | $1,382,638 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Third and Leconte Associates Lp | Denver, CO | $1,374,315 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sunnydale Block 6 Housing Partnership | Denver, CO | $1,189,246 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sunnydale Avenue Community Center | San Francisco, CA | $988,987 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| 55 Laguna Lp | Denver, CO | $759,273 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mercy Housing California Xxii | Denver, CO | $536,239 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kelsey Civic Center Lp | Denver, CO | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Playa Reimbursement -US Dept Health Grant | Santa Cruz, CA | $431,930 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sfha Housing Corporation | San Francisco, CA | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Britton Court | Denver, CO | $248,915 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mercy Housing California Xxxv Lp | Denver, CO | $176,013 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| 833 Byrant Lp | Denver, CO | $141,443 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bayview Hunter's Point YMCA | San Francisco, CA | $110,816 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mercy Oaks Village | Denver, CO | $82,266 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mercy Housing California 51 Lp | Denver, CO | $74,797 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercy Housing California 59 Lp | Denver, CO | $74,093 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 1880 Pine | San Francisco, CA | $64,874 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $52,189 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Homeless Prenatal Program Inc | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercy Housing California X (the Rose) | Denver, CO | $45,293 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Long Beach | Denver, CO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Heritage Homes | San Francisco, CA | $28,993 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Samoan Community Development Center Incorporated | San Francisco, CA | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mercy Housing California Xiv Lp | Denver, CO | $24,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mercy Housing California Xii | Denver, CO | $23,917 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mercy Housing California 68 Lp | Denver, CO | $23,492 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wheatland Duplexes Corporation | Denver, CO | $21,706 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Plaza Maria | San Jose, CA | $21,418 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jefferson Park Terrace | Los Angeles, CA | $21,072 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| J&j Community Resource Centerleandrew Jenkins | Denver, CO | $19,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Britton Street | San Francisco, CA | $18,371 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eden House | San Leandro, CA | $15,322 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| School House Station | Daly City, CA | $14,714 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Villa Madera | Oxnard, CA | $12,914 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Manzanita | San Leandro, CA | $12,415 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mercy Housing California 105 Lp | Denver, CO | $11,380 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Riverview Homes | Truckee, CA | $11,332 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Countrywood Housing Corporation | Denver, CO | $7,615 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA Alegre | Anaheim, CA | $5,947 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
17 of 53 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- 1064 Mission Lp
DEV FEE GIFTED GP INVEST IN 1064 MISSION LP - Mhi - Reimburse Corp for Portfolio Preservation
REIMBURSE PORTFOLIO PERSERVATION EXPENSES - City and County of San Francisco
GIFT TO CCSF RECREATION & PARK DEPT - Mercy Housing Inc
PORTFOLIO PRESERVATION PROJECT - Mercy Housing California 87 Lp
SALE OF STATE CERT TAX CREDITS - Parcel O455 Fell
DEVELOPMENT FEE PAYMENT FROM GP EQUITY
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 29 | $13.9M | $30,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $23.4M | $408,606 |
| 2023 | 22 | $29.3M | $160,610 |
| 2024 | 18 | $7,555,880 | $109,790 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
69% of its giving went to organizations in Colorado. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $151,269 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Colorado.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mercy Housing California's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 11 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1600 Broadway Suite 2000, Denver, CO, 80202.
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