Mercy Housing Mountain Plains

Analysis

Mercy Housing Mountain Plains is a registered charity in United States, based in Denver, CO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Mercy Housing Mountain Plains reported income of $9.9m and spending of $4.0m, leaving 60% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.7m to $9.9m (+167%), an average of +28% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 556%. Over the whole period it spent 53% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Mercy Housing Mountain Plains sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within CO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati ($9.9m), Tri County Action Program Inc ($10.0m) and Food & Water Watch ($9.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 39% and program service revenue 32% of the total. At year end it held assets of $38.0m against liabilities of $10.6m, net assets of $27.5m.