Mercy Health Foundation South

Analysis

Mercy Health Foundation South is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Mercy Health Foundation South reported income of $2.1m and spending of $18.2m, spending 857% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $2.1m (+28%), an average of +6.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 1166%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mercy Health Foundation South sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 85th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts Inc ($2.1m), Fellowship Adventures Outdoors ($2.1m) and Pioneer Community Care Inc ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 101% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $830k. At year end it held assets of $20.9m against liabilities of $397k, net assets of $20.5m.