Mercy Medical Center
Cedar Rapids, IA · EIN 42-0698295. Reported 73 grants totalling $47.1M to 34 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Medical Center, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 91% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 53% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $13.3M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
4 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $4,908 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercycare Service Corporation | Cedar Rapids, IA | $42.8M | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids Iowa Endowment Foundation Inc | Cedar Rapids, IA | $3,387,579 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Catherine Mcauley Center Inc | Cedar Rapids, IA | $86,270 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mercy Medical Center | Cedar Rapids, IA | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hawkeye Area Community Action Program Inc | Hiawatha, IA | $55,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Horizons a Family Service Alliance | Cedar Rapids, IA | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Willis Dady Emergency Shelter Inc | Cedar Rapids, IA | $51,270 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Linn County Public Health | Cedar Rapids, IA | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Matthew 25 | Cedar Rapids, IA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdioce Se of Dubuque Iowa | Dubuque, IA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa | Cedar Rapids, IA | $38,150 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Four Oaks Family and Childrens Services | Cedar Rapids, IA | $35,025 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Waypoint Services for Women Children and Families | Cedar Rapids, IA | $31,258 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Orchestra Iowa Inc | Cedar Rapids, IA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| United Way of East Central Iowa | Cedar Rapids, IA | $27,700 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Newbo City Market | Cedar Rapids, IA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tanager Place | Cedar Rapids, IA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Area Ambulance Authority | Cedar Rapids, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Feed Iowa First | Cedar Rapids, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foundation 2 Inc | Cedar Rapids, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Cedar Rapids, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| His Hands Ministries | Cedar Rapids, IA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Arc of East Central Iowa | Cedar Rapids, IA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Olivet Neighborhood Mission | Cedar Rapids, IA | $19,770 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Heritage Area Agency on Aging | Cedar Rapids, IA | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Zach Johnson Foundation | Cedar Rapids, IA | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Iowa Legal Aid | Des Moines, IA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kids First Law Center | Cedar Rapids, IA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| African American Museum of Iowa | Cedar Rapids, IA | $11,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Health Free Clinic | Cedar Rapids, IA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Zach Johnson Foundation | Cedar Rapids, IA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc | Urbandale, IA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| St John of the Cross | Cedar Rapids, IA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Super 20 | Cedar Rapids, IA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
21 of 34 (62%) 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.
- Mercy Service Corporation
FOR USE IN CONTINUING OPERATIONS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 21 | $10.8M | $6,270 |
| 2021 | 19 | $8,236,225 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $14.5M | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $13.5M | $20,000 |
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
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $15,000 -- 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 Iowa.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Mercy Medical Center's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 701 10TH St Se, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52403.
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